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listening to this makes going to the store so much better

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:43:00 -0400

listening to this makes going to the store so much better

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Thu, 16 May 2013 15:35:10 -0400

people that use a long inspirational quote as the caption of a selfie

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:56:00 -0400

people that use a long inspirational quote as the caption of a selfie

aseaofquotes: Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:31:41 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

lnternetporn: what ur average tragedy looks like after 100...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:46:36 -0400

lnternetporn:

what ur average tragedy looks like after 100 years

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Mon, 13 May 2013 20:37:56 -0400

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Sat, 11 May 2013 02:26:23 -0400

I’ve been trying to use and listen to French every day before my trip to be prepared as I possibly...

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:51:20 -0400

I’ve been trying to use and listen to French every day before my trip to be prepared as I possibly can be. My trip is getting closer i feel like my language skills are getting progressively worse because I’m so nervous.

you’re not behind or inept if you’re not engaged or in a serious relationship in your...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:32:00 -0400

you’re not behind or inept if you’re not engaged or in a serious relationship in your twenties, or at all for that matter. relationship status as a singular marker of success bothers me. it tricks talented and valuable people into doubting themselves because they aren’t adhering to some nonsense standard. it pushes others into relationships that are unhealthy or unsatisfying because they feel like it’s what they should be doing in order to be normal.

it’s okay to be in a relationship and it’s okay to not be in a relationship. your worth doesn’t come from someone else’s approval.

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Mon, 06 May 2013 17:20:08 -0400

sexhaver: one million, two hundred and seventy thousand...

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:19:59 -0400

sexhaver:

one million, two hundred and seventy thousand results. one million, two hundred and seventy thousand instances of the exact phrase “babies with swag” are contained on the internet. on one million, two hundred and seventy thousand separate occasions, a real live human being has sat down at a keyboard or stared down at their smartphone and tapped out the words “babies with swag”. this is late capitalism. this is the Desert of the Real. this is the hypothetical Tenth Circle of Hell. what an incredible time to be alive

supermassiveasshole: i was teaching my grandma to use computer so we can talk on skype and such but...

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:18:22 -0400

supermassiveasshole:

i was teaching my grandma to use computer so we can talk on skype and such but today she went kinda mad at me because “i didnt show her the knitting programme” and i was like what

and it comes out she accidentally opened ms excel and found out its a great way to create knitting patterns

my grandma is 82

Hip since birth

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:55:26 -0400

Hip since birth

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Sun, 05 May 2013 13:58:33 -0400

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Sun, 05 May 2013 01:56:30 -0400

cashcrab: 35-65 year old men who always end all their sentences with ellipses are the most...

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:28:51 -0400

cashcrab:

35-65 year old men who always end all their sentences with ellipses are the most underrated internet subculture. i.e. “saw this band in milwaukee in 86… good memories drinking with davey and dennis out by the boatyard after the show… Timeless music… -From Carl…”

high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael...

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:20:41 -0400

high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael marten

whenever i go into an office supply store it’s always the highlight of my day. i really like...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:45:26 -0400

whenever i go into an office supply store it’s always the highlight of my day. i really like office supplies and i’m not sure why

so the semester is over and i am so excited for all of the changes that are happening all at once....

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:42:00 -0400

so the semester is over and i am so excited for all of the changes that are happening all at once. i’m going to live in france at the end of the month for the rest of the summer and then when i come back i start my new job and move into a new apartment. things are looking up

sagansense: Observing Jupiter Jupiter…is always a joy to look...

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:55:59 -0400

sagansense:

Observing Jupiter

Jupiter…is always a joy to look at. Even through nothing more powerful than a good pair of binoculars. Jupiter’s four Galilean moons should be visible, their positions changing noticeably from one night to the next. The smallest telescope reveals features on Jupiter’s cloud tops, including two dark bands straddling the equator. Through larger telescopes, other dark belts and bright zones appear, as well as exciting detail within the belts.

The best way to learn about Jupiter through observation is to draw it. Observers use a soft, 2B pencil and a dim white flashlight so that they can see what they are committing to paper. Before beginning to draw, they watch the planet for a few minutes to get familiar with the shapes and details of its belts and zones. Since Jupiter rotates very quickly - the whole planet goes once around in less than 10 hours - observers complete the basic outline of their drawings in about a quarter hour, filling in the details later.

The experience of drawing this planet brings to mind the fact that Jupiter is big. It is a planet much larger than Earth and some 400 to 600 million miles from us.

While you look at Jupiter’s moons, consider how they helped persuade Galileo that the Earth was not the center of the universe, and remember that the idea was so threatening to that era’s powerful religious politics that he was forced to recant on pain of torture. By taking us back to an earlier, darker time in our history, Galileo’s moons remind us not to be too attached to the accepted wisdom of our own age.

David H. Levy; author, Impact Jupiter: The Crash Of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9; comet co-discoverer (image sources: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Amateur Astronomers: When using a “dim flashlight”, make sure to use filtered red light, via LED or DIY.

Everyone: This “darker time in our history” persists to this day. We may not have astronomers being physically tortured; no, the torture comes from our (predominantly misinformed) society’s continual persistence in ‘tolerating’ the ‘rights’ of religious influence in politics and education.

This world (and our species) deserves minds capable of critical thinking fueled by an insatiable curiosity without religious influence governed at the helm by scientifically illiterate people who claim to have a neurological two-way radio with the creator of the universe/s.

Galileo would be proud of our achievements, but more steadfast than we in his commitment to the true nature of the physical world via the scientific method and meticulous observation, to which religious “knowledge” have produced no such observations, progressions or achievements toward our understanding of the universe, led by the literal interpretation of outdated Biblical text, in order to give credit to a creator or reason yet to be named by science itself, upon which the ‘rights’ of religious organizations are allowed to exploit their superimposition of the divine plan unto our current understandings of the cosmos, without aiding in any of the countless hours of scrupulous investigation themselves.

As a father and a student of life, my parenting efforts have been led by a simple motive: teach my child (and others) how to think, not what to think. All of us the world over will benefit by a society and human civilization led by this principle as well.

Ad astra.

(sagansense)