April 2012
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March 2012
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How to Write Like a Scientist →
jangojips:
oldowan:
I didn’t know whether to take my Ph.D. adviser’s remark as a compliment. “You don’t write like a scientist,” he said, handing me back the progress report for a grant that I had written for him. In my dream world, tears would have come to his eyes, and he would have squealed, “You write like a poet!”
In reality, though, he just frowned. He had meant it as a criticism. I...
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“As you certainly know by now, in “The Hunger Games,” Katniss Everdeen is a...”
– The sexual politics of “The Hunger Games” - Salon.com (via becoming-wave)
Oh hey, you should read this. It makes some really good points. The section about violence especially.
(via lesparapluiesrouges)
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Archaeological News: Litter fouls Titanic's... →
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Washington - Litter bugs on the high seas are fouling the Titanic’s watery grave with beer cans, plastic cups, even soap boxes, a century after the “unsinkable” luxury liner went down, experts said. Contrary to popular belief, the wreck of history’s greatest maritime disaster is not swiftly…
did you know?: Sea Nomads →
moeby:
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The Bajau Laut people of the south-western Philippines and Indonesia live their entire lives on the sea. Known as “sea gypsies” or “sea nomads”, they inhabit amazing villages built on stilts in the middle of the ocean. Many Bajau people do not set foot on land except to trade fish and sea cucumbers for rice and (ironically) water, build new boats, or bury the deceased. In...
a running list of scenes that i am appalled were...
bookling-stormborn:
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leatherpumpkin:
s1: elosha explaining split of the gods
black market: dee talking to lee about how she has suicidal thoughts at times and isn’t sure if all of what they are doing will be worth it in the long run
taking a break from all your worries: the roslin/caprica interrogation scene
Did you guys know that there was a scene that...
TUMBLR BOMB TIME: Sign this and REBLOG to protect... →
nefariousnewt:
SIGNAL BOOST!
nom-chompsky:
how did i miss peepton abbey
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lakebandit:
garlandgrey replied to your post: DUDE, Garth Brooks was my first celebrity crush!!!!
that was a dark time in history, okay?
I just pretend this never happened.
Cast your mind back to whatever year this was. I am chatting with a friend. This comes up. I snark that he looks like a reject from The Cure, to which my friend, a former Goth, points at me and shrieks,...
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Dracula is making little popping noises in his...
The array of weird noises he produces is truly amazing.
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Everest Climbing Gear—Then and Now →
nationalgeographicmagazine:
This spring en route to Mount Everest, Hilaree O’Neill, 39, a ski-mountaineer from Colorado who is part of our 2012 Everest expedition which will be covered live in the National Geographic iPad app, will trek the same valleys and work up to Base Camp just as Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did 59 years ago when the duo claimed the first ascent. But on the...
Also, I really, really dislike the tights over skates look. Like, to an almost irrational degree. Lumpy cankles flatter no one, ladies.
I do not understand scoring in figure skating. How can you fall on your ass and still come in second?