mother of pearl.

explore-blog: Everything You Know by Wendy MacNaughton, from...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:31:06 -0400

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...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:28:00 -0500

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

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:25:35 -0500

Maps (Acoustic Version) - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Hillary Clinton is the most traveled Secretary of State in...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:44:00 -0400

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..."

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:29:43 -0400

“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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Two Little Girls Explain The Worst Haircut Ever

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:54:00 -0400

Two Little Girls Explain The Worst Haircut Ever:

onthemedia:

The cutest interview of the month. Year?

Every episode of Reading Rainbow is now available on YouTube

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:09:51 -0400

Every episode of Reading Rainbow is now available on YouTube:

jessicavalenti:

Let the revelry commence!

jtotheizzoe: Psychologists Note That Readers Subconsciously...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:16:01 -0400

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...

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:41:21 -0400

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

thesociologist: F. Scott Fitzgerald; Photographer Unknown. (via...

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:58:37 -0400

thesociologist:

F. Scott Fitzgerald; Photographer Unknown.

(via arreter)

flavorpill: Photos of animals with stuffed animals of...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:58:39 -0400

flavorpill:

Photos of animals with stuffed animals of themselves

are2: The Simpsons painted at Chernobyl [Video]

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:48:28 -0400

are2:

The Simpsons painted at Chernobyl

[Video]

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ericmortensen: good: Upcycling’s Upshot: How Urban Mushroom...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:41:36 -0500

ericmortensen:

good:

Upcycling’s Upshot: How Urban Mushroom Farmers Turned Scavenging into a Business

Two Cal grads turned an idea that sprouted up in a business ethics class into a sustainable, waste-free business. Their two main ingredients: mushrooms and coffee grounds.

Read the story on GOOD→

So awesome. I’ve given their kits to a few people as gifts. This is very much worth the read.

thedailywhat: Street Art of the Day: As part of an ongoing...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:38:06 -0500

thedailywhat:

Street Art of the Day: As part of an ongoing effort to “track all the ways [Bank of America] is bankrupting America,” activists with the Rainforest Action Network and The New Bottom Line affixed non-adhesive protest stickers to some 85 BoA ATMs throughout San Francisco.

The stickers replaced the traditional menu items with “a list of everything BoA customers’ money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling of climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses.”

[sfist.]

foulmouthedliberty: I was going to excerpt a few quotes from...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:05:00 -0500

foulmouthedliberty:

I was going to excerpt a few quotes from this video, but the whole thing’s so damn good, you’re going to have to just commit 12 minutes of your time. You’ll be a better person for it. I promise.

Nicely played, Jay. As usual.

jsmooth… so so so perf. i love this man.

kiwizzo: This is Lady Pink, one of the only female graffiti...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:09:52 -0500

kiwizzo:

This is Lady Pink, one of the only female graffiti artists active in the ’80s. Jenny Holzer, famous for her feminist postmodern “Truisms,” designed this shirt and Lady Pink wore it around NYC. (via intifada)

imwithkanye: America’s smartest, funniest people tackle Occupy...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:34:54 -0500

imwithkanye:

America’s smartest, funniest people tackle Occupy Wall Street, Lady Gaga and a bunch more things you wish you could forget | Rolling Stone

[Above: Zooey Deschanel, Conan O’Brien and Aubrey Plaza]

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Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:53:11 -0500