January 2011
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Happy New Fear!
“Go out and have your fun tonight, you might as well. Go out and raise your drinks to life cause we’re all going to Hell.” Happy New Year fools!
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“I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because...”
– George Clooney (via decisioni)
December 2010
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“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and...”
– Winona LaDuke (via sarahjune)
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Seen from France/Europe.
dream-hope-act:
mohandasgandhi:
I never see people get more upset and defensive than when someone calls them out for being racist. Is privilege really embedded that deeply? My god….
The historical importance of race in the USA. It makes racism something that can’t be neglected there. For instance, during the presidential election campaign in 2008, some people wondered if Obama, was more...
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Road To Ruin: Serengeti Highway
For those who didn’t watch the video. Here’s the recap. The African Serengeti in Northern Tanzania is at rick of total collapse because of this proposed 33 mile long two lane highway. The Tanzania government plans to build a road for commercial trucks. Zebras, wildebeest, and endangered predators (leopards, cheetahs, etc.) are at risk to be roadkill. Conservationists say that the...
Watchryking:
Road to ruin: Developers plan to destroy the Serengeti by developing a highway through its heart.
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I need to leave this place.
But I have nowhere to go, and if I left, I would want to come back so badly.
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“You may look upon life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism (via digitalpidgin) This is how I’ve been feeling lately. I need to be shaken up a bit. I’ve been thinking about how quick the years have gone by, and how we are always waiting for the dark cloud to leave, yet it always stays. I feel sort of...
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“There is probably no other notion in any field of science that has been as...”
– Encyclopedia Britannica (via tumblrpigeon)
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“We now live in a country in which the bottom 40 percent (120 million people)...”
– Sam Harris from A New Year’s Resolution For The Rich
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“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best...”
– Sam Harris from A New Year’s Resolution For The Rich Make college free for anyone who can’t afford it.
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“Americans have made a religious fetish of something called...”
– Sam Harris - from A New Year’s Resolution For The Rich
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A New Year's Resolution for the Rich
putdownmypants:
Sam Harris
Author, Neuroscientist
Posted: December 29, 2010 05:36 PM
While the United States has suffered the worst recession in living memory, I find that I have very few financial concerns. Many of my friends are in the same position: Most of us attended private schools and good universities, and we will be able to provide these same opportunities to our own children. No one...
aniraduath asked: Something you don't know about me...hmm
I used to have a cat that I would take for walks, and play fetch with drinking straws, and he slept on my head.
There ya go! :)
I used to have a cat that I would take for walks, and play fetch with drinking straws, and he slept on my head.
There ya go! :)
aniraduath asked: Something you don't know about me...hmm
I used to have a cat that I would take for walks, and play fetch with drinking straws, and he slept on my head.
There ya go! :)
I used to have a cat that I would take for walks, and play fetch with drinking straws, and he slept on my head.
There ya go! :)
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KFC's Real Secret Recipe: Deforestation →
Many of the cardboard buckets originate in the quickly disappearing southern hardwood forests, ruining these delicate ecosystems and contributing to climate change. … Using pristine southern hardwoods to crank out chicken buckets is bad enough. But claiming that these buckets are now sustainable when they’re really not is simply inexcusable.
Open the link, there’s a petition you can...
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Friends!
I want to get to know more of my followers friends on here so fill my ask box with something about you. I haven’t had time to check every blog out that has followed me so I’m sure I’m missing out on tons of cool people. Talk to me!
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“A storm broke loose in my mind.”
– Albert Einstein - When asked about being 26 years old having wrote 5 papers (in one year!) that has changed science forever.
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Einstein 1905: The Standard Of Greatness
I read Einstein 1905: The Standard Of Greatness some time last year and jotting down some memorable info. * Albert Einstein wrote 5 papers in 6 months that deeply influenced the course of 20th century scientist. March - September 1905: Probably the most productive 6 months that a scientist has ever had. * Einstein recognized and predicted nuclear energy 34 years before the discovery that made it...
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“The tendency of biological evolution is toward diversity - is now and always has...”
– Daniel Quinn - The Story Of B
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“The tendency of biological evolution is toward diversity - is now and always has...”
– Daniel Quinn - The Story Of B
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“Evidently it isn’t just the history of the world that the victors get to...”
– Daniel Quinn - The Story Of B
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“The people of our culture are tremendous bullet-biters. For those unfamiliar...”
– Daniel Quinn - The Story Of B
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“The people of our culture are tremendous bullet-biters. For those unfamiliar...”
– Daniel Quinn - The Story Of B
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“Evidently it isn’t just the history of the world that the victors get to...”
– Daniel Quinn - The Story Of B
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“Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where...”
– Chris Hedges
who, for the importance of this brief piece, should be awarded the Pulitzer again, if the said prize wasn’t an already co-opted institution of the mainstream media.
(via vruz) 1984 and Brave New World were both correct. And yes, Hedges is an amazing writer. I’ve only read...
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“THE HANDY GUIDE TO NOT RAPING PEOPLE IN SEVEN EASY STEPS
1. When you meet a...”
– Ben Pobjie: The Handy Guide to Not Raping People (via monkeytypist)
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“Three million souls can be starved and murdered in the Congo, and our Argus-eyed...”
– Sam Harris - The End of Faith (via hudizzle)
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Bayshore coal plant kills 60 billion fish... →
FirstEnergy’s Bayshore coal plant sits in Lake Erie’s Maumee Bay, one of the most important spawning grounds and fisheries in the world supporting a $1.4 billion annual commercial and recreational fishing economy. The Bayshore plant’s once-through cooling system sucks up hundreds of millions of gallons of Lake Erie water daily. Fish in the area are also pulled in and destroyed at...
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“Darwin’s great insight revolutionized the way in which we see the world. We now...”
– Sir David Attenborough on Charles Darwin (via sixtyforty)
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Hedgehog's Dilemma
The hedgehog’s dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is an analogy about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs all seek to become close to one another in order to share their heat during cold weather. However, once accomplished, they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp quills. They must step away from one another. Though...
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A Fable To Start With
Excerpt from Daniel Quinn’s Beyond Civilization. Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of Quinn’s Ishmael series. A Fable To Start With Once upon a time life evolved on a certain planet, bringing forth many different social organizations - packs, pods, flocks, troops, herds, and so on. One species whose members were unusually intelligent developed a unique social organization...
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A little birdie told me a secret about Kepler's...
On Jan 15th, the Kepler team is supposed to unload all of it’s data they have kept hidden for us for 8 months regarding exoplanets and the likelihood of other Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Here’s a bit of info to get you stoked… “You can look up into the night sky, and about 12% of those stars have a super-Earth (3 to 10 times our mass) orbiting within the disance...
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“The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think...”
– Banksy - The full quote.
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“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government...”
– Derrick Jensen (via fyeahderrickjensen)
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“It’s no wonder we don’t defend the land where we live. We don’t live here. We...”
– Derrick Jensen (via fyeahderrickjensen)
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“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes (via ageofreason)
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We are an exoplanet to every other solar system in...
We are not alone.
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