explore-blog:

Everything You Know by Wendy MacNaughton, from the spectacular Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology.

buzzfeed:

Meet Park Geun-Hye, the first female president of South Korea.

I hope she receives all the love, support, and strength she needs to lead her country. 

Maps (Acoustic Version) - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Hillary Clinton is the most traveled Secretary of State in history. She’s featured on the cover of this month’s Condé Nast.

"Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…"

Sylvia Plath

(via drinkyourjuice)

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onthemedia:

The cutest interview of the month. Year?

jessicavalenti:

Let the revelry commence!

jtotheizzoe:

Psychologists Note That Readers Subconsciously Become Their Favorite Characters

It’s more than cosplay. When immersed in a fictional world, your mind can let go of its self-identity, and unconsciously connect with a fictional character’s behaviors and thoughts.

A phenomenon called “experience-taking” is thought to be at the heart of this behavior. It’s not the same as just sharing a character’s perspective. The readers actually transformed their world view to match the characters if presented in the right way. I think the most interesting part of this work is when they repeated the test with movies. The effect didn’t hold up. It seems like sitting in a theater doesn’t stimulate the unconscious changes that immersing yourself in a written character does.

Ever happened to you?

(via Medical Daily, cuteness via Fashionably Geek)

thenewinquiry:

The state is astonished.

Men are astonished.

We are astonished that they are astonished.

And now we come to the problem.

Women in Armed Struggle, Evan Calder Williams