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laurajmoss: Despite efforts to educate the public on how good...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:08:15 -0500

Despite efforts to educate the public on how good our water supply is, bottled water sales inch up 1 percent to 2 percent a year. We think that’s naive.

Learn more about plastic pollution at 5 Gyres.

abreakfromnormal: Bulgaria (Europe) is currently experiencing...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:07:51 -0500

abreakfromnormal:

Bulgaria (Europe) is currently experiencing mass riots over electricity costs, economic issues and other matters. Some 300,000 people are rioting.

In an unprecedented step, the Chief of Police said “Rioters. We are with you. We are here to protect people and property, but we are with you.”

They then dropped their shields and stood.

Some rioters approached police lines, to give the police FLOWERS.

Why am I crying? Lol

World-Shaker: SCIENCE NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:01:39 -0500

World-Shaker: SCIENCE NEEDS YOUR HELP!:

geeklearnstorun:

Help! The Los Angeles Science Fair is being cancelled just three weeks before the event due to insufficient funding.

Over 4,000 students have been working diligently since July to compete in this science fair. They are not able to compete in any other…

thepeoplesrecord: The realities of the New Jim Crow: The...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:59:11 -0500

thepeoplesrecord:

The realities of the New Jim Crow: The incarceration rate for American-Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than to find a job, thereby causing the breakup of families and instilling further poverty upon them.

The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, locking up about 500 people for every 100,000 residents, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. (The US has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners.)

The incarceration rate for African-Americans is about 3,074 per 100,000 residents, which is more than six times as high as the national average. Black men in their 20s and early 30s without a high school diploma are particularly vulnerable: with an incarceration rate of 40 percent, they are more likely to end up behind bars than in the workforce, Pew Charitable Trusts reports.

“Jails & prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangers to each other.” - Angela Davis

visual-poetry: “plagiarized text #1” by bpNichol (+)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:44:48 -0500

visual-poetry:

“plagiarized text #1” by bpNichol (+)

therapsida: fatbodypolitics: Size 10 jeans, please: Study finds fat acceptance...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:44:02 -0500

therapsida: fatbodypolitics: Size 10 jeans, please: Study finds fat acceptance...:

fatbodypolitics:

Size 10 jeans, please: Study finds fat acceptance blogs can improve health outcomes

th3skinny:

girlgrowingsmall:

re-cover-ed:

“Fat acceptance” blogs urging overweight people to shed negative feelings about their body image can lead to healthier diet and…

lefloweroflife: “The theory of the blue colouring of Krishna...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:42:51 -0500

lefloweroflife:

“The theory of the blue colouring of Krishna goes to the fact that the Creator has given the maximum of blue to nature i.e. the sky, the oceans, the rivers and lakes. The deity who has the qualities of bravery, manliness, determination, the ability to deal with difficult situations, of stable mind and depth of character is represented as blue “

suicideblonde: The Virgin Suicides book cover

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:41:04 -0500

suicideblonde:

The Virgin Suicides book cover

jtotheizzoe: The world’s largest known prime number, converted...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:18:31 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

The world’s largest known prime number, converted to RGB pixels. Dr. Curtis Cooper recently found a >17 million digit prime number, 2^^57,885,161-1, setting a world record. These super-large primes are known as Mersenne primes, after the French mathematician who studied them centuries ago.

The raw digits containing 0-9 were split to six-number chunks, and then converted into the RGB color scale by pbump on Flickr. Here it is much, much bigger. It’s almost a perfect representation of noise.

jtotheizzoe: Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:09:25 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less

Also, the internet is made of fireworks.

(via Surprising Science)

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lettersintheampersand: White Lined “Paper” Towel - Decorative...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:22:23 -0500

lettersintheampersand:

White Lined “Paper” Towel - Decorative Cotton Tea Towel [x]

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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:19:45 -0500

dailynspirations: Details from “Sound of Silence,” by Paolo...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:17:37 -0500

dailynspirations:

Details from “Sound of Silence,” by Paolo Roversi for Vogue China April 2011

guardian: Half the size of a football pitch, Migingo Island on...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:13:51 -0500

guardian:

Half the size of a football pitch, Migingo Island on Lake Victoria is claimed by both Kenya and Uganda. The population of 131 is made up of mostly fishermen and traders.

Jesco Denzel

tattr: GUY LE TATTOOER Berlin, Germany & London, England /...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:07:09 -0500

tattr:

GUY LE TATTOOER

Berlin, Germany & London, England / Traveling

www.akaberlin.com & akalondon.tumblr.com

Email: guyletatooer@gmail.com

"You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:05:38 -0500

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”

- John Berger Ways of Seeing (via spartanbitch)

This is super fucking relevant.

And why self portraits (selfies) are often such an act of self preservation and resistance.

(via sexxxisbeautiful)

Hahahaha this so much. I knew so many creeps who always idolized women’s bodies to the point of fetishizing it, but the second a girl showed any self-love? Oh, no, she’s foul.

(via quietly-creeping)

That’s why when people call me vain or conceited I tear their throats out. Nobody loves me as much as me, shit.

(via thegoddamazon)

I posted a photo of myself in a short black dress & some J Simp heels and IMPLIED that I thought I was cute.

Lost 8 followers instantly.

If we bring race into this and talk about how a BLACK woman can’t dare think she cute, we’d be here all day.

(via tashabilities)

jtotheizzoe: Always Check Your Blind Spot (Check the end of...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:04:10 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

Always Check Your Blind Spot

(Check the end of this post for a cool way to test your eyes’ blind spot!)

Humans have fairly good vision, as the animal world goes. Perhaps not as advanced as some ultraviolet-sensing birds or the super-seeing mantis shrimp, which can see circularly polarized light from UV to infrared, but pretty good. But along the evolutionary path that our eyes took to become what they are today, they left a blind spot … literally.

The rod and cone cells that make up the light-sensing part of the retina are wired from the inside, like a camera whose interior is filled with wires. All of those wires have to exit out the back of the eye, leaving a tiny hole in the retina where you can’t see anything:

Our eyes are on the left in the image above. The eyes on the right? Cephalopod eyes, like those of squid, have retinas that are wired from beneath and don’t have a blind spot. This is probably why we are doomed to be conquered by them …

Want to test your blind spot? Open up the “R/L” image at the top of this post, then close your right eye. Stare at the letter “L” with your left eye and move your head closer and farther from the screen to watch the other letter disappear.

Rinse, repeat, freak out.

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