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fishingboatproceeds: #sass

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:27:50 -0400

#sass

hollywoodandpeachtree: bespectacledfanwarrior: tyleroakley: bu...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:15:31 -0400

bespectacledfanwarrior:

tyleroakley:

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.

George Takei is flawfree.

Ladies and gentlemen. This.

I love George Takei.

Where can I watch season 3 of Downton Abbey? I prefer not to download anything.

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:32:46 -0400

Where can I watch season 3 of Downton Abbey? I prefer not to download anything.

jtotheizzoe: Why does music make us feel happy or sad? Or angry...

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:23:04 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Why does music make us feel happy or sad? Or angry or romantic? How can simple sound waves cause so much emotion?

First things first, this is the best t-shirt I’ve worn in any episode.

I went from my comfy chair to the streets of Austin to investigate whether it might be written into neural evolution. Modern neuroscience says our brains may be wired to pick certain emotions out of music because they remind us of how people move!

Humans are the only species we know that creates and communicate using music, but it’s still unclear how or why we do that, brain-wise. Is it just a lucky side effect of evolution, like Steven Pinker says? Or is it a deeper part of our evolutionary history, as people like Mark Changizi and Daniel Levitin argue?

Some brand new evolutionary psychology research says that we may read emotion in music because it relates to how we sense emotion in people’s movements. We’ll take a trip from Austin to Dartmouth to Cambodia to hear why music makes us feel so many feels. The connections between movement and music go far beyond dance moves!

Mike over at Idea Channel has a different opinion, that our emotional reactions to music are purely learned and cultural. Head on over and check it out. Do you agree?

For more reading on this awesome topic, check out these references.

If this were May 2, 1998:

Fri, 03 May 2013 02:18:59 -0400

mypatronusisyou:

simplypotterheads:

Right now, both sides are tending to their dead and injured and Harry is walking through the forest to meet Voldemort. Alone.

EVERY FUCKING YEAR

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:07:36 -0400

marbleloveroftveit: randomfandomconfessions: littlecoffeemonste...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:08:08 -0400

marbleloveroftveit:

randomfandomconfessions:

littlecoffeemonsters:

youlockedmeinthatbloodylab:

LION KING BLOOPERS

These are actual bloopers from the cast while they recording, and they were later animated.

HIGH MUFASA ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH

I needed this in my life.

if you don’t want this on your blog, i’m judging you

doctorswithoutborders: Test Me, Treat Me CHANGE IS NEEDED:...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:50:20 -0400

doctorswithoutborders:

Test Me, Treat Me

CHANGE IS NEEDED: People living with drug-resistant TB & doctors are calling on the international community to seize an historic opportunity to develop newer, shorter, better treatments.

JOIN THEIR CALL BY SIGNING THEIR MANIFESTO

"Well firstly we sat down and looked at what kinda attention DR-TB needs. For instance we talked..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:46:25 -0400

“

Well firstly we sat down and looked at what kinda attention DR-TB needs. For instance we talked about the urgent need to reduce the medication, 20+ tablets, those medications which makes you even more sick than you already are, and also to reduce them by making stronger drugs which we will be able to take not for 2 years or 3 years but only a month. This would be just fine so that we can continue with our lives. I hope the manifesto will be taken very seriously and land on the right hands so that something will be done with immediate effect.

And talking about side effects of the drugs, I noticed that I have not been very clear about the deafness part and very little people know that the medication makes you deaf… I did mention it a couple times before, well seems like not everyone is taking it seriously. For starters I for one have to start afresh if I want to study further again, I have to learn a new language which is signing, and from this point I have to adjust to the ‘’deaf world’’. It’s like learning something totally new, starting your life back on a very different planet

”

- Phumeza, who has permanently lost her hearing due to the side effects of her treatment for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, writes about the changes she is having to make in her life, as well as contributing to MSF’s tuberculosis manifesto
(via doctorswithoutborders)

lespoirestmagique: the-absolute-best-posts: rachelkiley: What...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:44:08 -0400

lespoirestmagique:

the-absolute-best-posts:

rachelkiley:

What happens to Disney princesses after happily ever after.

This is amazing.

I can’t get over how amazing his timing is.

fuck i wish i was this talented.

Brilliant!

His harmonies were spectacular oh my god

My lovely followers, please follow this blog immediately!

THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER

I AM SCREAMING

Acoustic Levitation Using sound waves to levitate individual...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:12:34 -0400

Acoustic Levitation

Using sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing pharmaceutical drugs and drying them in mid-air.

witchesgetsnitches: luigisorchestra: bowtiesandbiscuits: 15th of March 2012. Ordered a Caesar...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:01:36 -0400

witchesgetsnitches:

luigisorchestra:

bowtiesandbiscuits:

15th of March 2012.

Ordered a Caesar Salad today, proceeded to stab it 23 times before consumption. Nobody else found it as hilarious.

OH MY LORD

I CAN’T EVEN

HISTORY NERDS ARE THE BEST NERDS

I have had this post saved since last month just waiting for the day.

edwardspoonhands: Yup

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:36:14 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

Yup

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?"

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:34:38 -0400

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

- Ernest Hemingway (via sickflower)

northerncrescentiron: This is a video of how we forge out our...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:29:58 -0400

northerncrescentiron:

This is a video of how we forge out our railroad spike knives. It’s a quick video that we shot with my iPhone and I edited using iMovie.

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If you would like to purchase a knife just Click Here. They start at only 38 bucks.

To see our website, Here.

Enjoy!

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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:24:38 -0400

flyingonthefriendshipship: Would you kill him in his bed?Thrust a dagger through his head?I would...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:51:54 -0400

flyingonthefriendshipship:

Would you kill him in his bed?
Thrust a dagger through his head?
I would not, could not, kill the King.
I could not do that evil thing.
I would not wed this girl, you see.
Now get her to a nunnery.

~ Green Eggs and Hamlet

US Ambassador to the UN asks colleagues to stop showing up drunk to meetings.

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:16:44 -0500

US Ambassador to the UN asks colleagues to stop showing up drunk to meetings.:

democratsaresexier:

I’m sure tackling world issues gets stressful but wow.

boxotron: I keep forgetting to stop eating this is a problem

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:20:49 -0500

boxotron:

I keep forgetting to stop eating

this is a problem

discoverynews: Ultimate Petition: One Billion for Climate...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:15:35 -0500

discoverynews:

Ultimate Petition: One Billion for Climate Action

There are lots of petitions flying around the Internet these days, but none quite so ambitious as that of Ranga B. Myneni. His petition has a single sentence that he hopes will be endorsed by a billion humans by the time Earth Day rolls around in 2014. Yeah, that’s no typo: One Billion people. Here’s what the petition says:

“Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon,

We, the People of the Earth, request You to act judiciously and expeditiously to protect the Earth from anthropogenic climate change.

Respectfully,

People of the Earth”

But… will it work?