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Tue, 21 May 2013 09:12:06 -0500

buttart: animals-riding-animals: wombat riding turtle the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:52:51 -0500

buttart:

animals-riding-animals:

wombat riding turtle

the animal kingdom is a strange and beautiful place

/Adore this gif

thunderpopcola: This is how you lose her. You lose her when...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:29:38 -0500

thunderpopcola:

This is how you lose her.

You lose her when you forget to remember the little things that mean the world to her: the sincerity in a stranger’s voice during a trip to the grocery, the delight of finding something lost or forgotten like a sticker from when she was five, the selflessness of a child giving a part of his meal to another, the scent of new books in the store, the surprise short but honest notes she tucks in her journal and others you could only see if you look closely.

You must remember when she forgets.

You lose her when you don’t notice that she notices everything about you: your use of the proper punctuation that tells her continuation rather than finality, your silence when you’re about to ask a question but you think anything you’re about to say to her would be silly, your mindless humming when it is too quiet, your handwriting when you sign your name in blank sheets of paper, your muted laughter when you are trying to be polite, and more and more of what you are, which you don’t even know about yourself, because she pays attention.

She remembers when you forget.

You lose her for every second you make her feel less and less of the beauty that she is. When you make her feel that she is replaceable. She wants to feel cherished. When you make her feel that you are fleeting. She wants you to stay. When you make her feel inadequate. She wants to know that she is enough and she does not need to change for you, nor for anyone else because she is she and she is beautiful, kind and good.

You must learn her.

You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to.

You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept.

And, this is how you keep her.

blknymph: the cranberries - zombie this was my only childhood...

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:55:49 -0500

blknymph:

the cranberries - zombie

this was my only childhood song

"But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands gloved with green. You can have..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:38 -0500

“But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands
gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger
on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back.
You can have the purr of the cat and the soulful look
of the black dog, the look that says, If I could I would bite
every sorrow until it fled, and when it is August,
you can have it August and abundantly so. You can have love,
though often it will be mysterious, like the white foam
that bubbles up at the top of the bean pot over the red kidneys
until you realize foam’s twin is blood.
You can have the skin at the center between a man’s legs,
so solid, so doll-like. You can have the life of the mind,
glowing occasionally in priestly vestments, never admitting pettiness,
never stooping to bribe the sullen guard who’ll tell you
all roads narrow at the border.
You can speak a foreign language, sometimes,
and it can mean something. You can visit the marker on the grave
where your father wept openly. You can’t bring back the dead,
but you can have the words forgive and forget hold hands
as if they meant to spend a lifetime together. And you can be grateful
for makeup, the way it kisses your face, half spice, half amnesia, grateful
for Mozart, his many notes racing one another towards joy, for towels
sucking up the drops on your clean skin, and for deeper thirsts,
for passion fruit, for saliva. You can have the dream,
the dream of Egypt, the horses of Egypt and you riding in the hot sand.
You can have your grandfather sitting on the side of your bed,
at least for a while, you can have clouds and letters, the leaping
of distances, and Indian food with yellow sauce like sunrise.
You can’t count on grace to pick you out of a crowd
but here is your friend to teach you how to high jump,
how to throw yourself over the bar, backwards,
until you learn about love, about sweet surrender,
and here are periwinkles, buses that kneel, farms in the mind
as real as Africa. And when adulthood fails you,
you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond
of your childhood, the rye bread with peanut butter and bananas
your grandmother gave you while the rest of the family slept.
There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother’s,
it will always whisper, you can’t have it all,
but there is this.”

- Barbara Ras, “You Can’t Have It All” (via commovente)

New favorite poem I think.

(via nogreatillusion)

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Racism & Prejudice

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:13:01 -0500

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Racism & Prejudice:

ikenbot:

There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.

“Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood,” he said.

Controversy ahead

The findings combine three hot-button topics.

“They’ve pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics,” said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study. “When one selects intelligence, political ideology and racism and looks at any of the relationships between those three variables, it’s bound to upset somebody.”

Polling data and social and political science research do show that prejudice is more common in those who hold right-wing ideals that those of other political persuasions, Nosek told LiveScience.

“The unique contribution here is trying to make some progress on the most challenging aspect of this,” Nosek said, referring to the new study. “It’s not that a relationship like that exists, but why it exists.”

Brains and bias

Earlier studies have found links between low levels of education and higher levels of prejudice, Hodson said, so studying intelligence seemed a logical next step. The researchers turned to two studies of citizens in the United Kingdom, one that has followed babies since their births in March 1958, and another that did the same for babies born in April 1970. The children in the studies had their intelligence assessed at age 10 or 11; as adults ages 30 or 33, their levels of social conservatism and racism were measured.

In the first study, verbal and nonverbal intelligence was measured using tests that asked people to find similarities and differences between words, shapes and symbols. The second study measured cognitive abilities in four ways, including number recall, shape-drawing tasks, defining words and identifying patterns and similarities among words. Average IQ is set at 100.

Social conservatives were defined as people who agreed with a laundry list of statements such as “Family life suffers if mum is working full-time,” and “Schools should teach children to obey authority.” Attitudes toward other races were captured by measuring agreement with statements such as “I wouldn’t mind working with people from other races.” (These questions measured overt prejudiced attitudes, but most people, no matter how egalitarian, do hold unconscious racial biases; Hodson’s work can’t speak to this “underground” racism.)

As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias.

People with lower cognitive abilities also had less contact with people of other races.

“This finding is consistent with recent research demonstrating that intergroup contact is mentally challenging and cognitively draining, and consistent with findings that contact reduces prejudice,” said Hodson, who along with his colleagues published these results online Jan. 5 in the journal Psychological Science.

Full Article: Recommended Full Read

"The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:10:38 -0500

“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are. Friends that don’t help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don’t increase you will eventually decrease you.”

- Colin Powell (via eyes-of-mars)

npr: A large study of 30,000 people in Copenhagen over 14 years...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:28:42 -0500

npr:

A large study of 30,000 people in Copenhagen over 14 years found that those who biked to work lowered their risk of death by 40 percent compared to sedentary people. And in the short term, another study of 100 people in Perth, Australia, who replaced some car commutes with bike trips over the course of a year, found the bicycling improved aerobic fitness, cholesterol numbers, and lowered the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

That seems pretty straightforward. But what about the risk of getting crushed by a trash truck? Anyone who’s bicycled even a little bit knows all too well the fear of an encounter with a motor vehicle. Just yesterday the Washington Post reported on a 20-year-old bicyclist who was critically injured after being hit by a car in downtown D.C.

— Biking To Work: Healthful Until You Hit A Pothole : Shots - Health News

Photo: John Rose/NPR

I bike everwhere.

cheatsheet: Dad puts Google Glass on his toddler, letting us...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:55:30 -0500

cheatsheet:

Dad puts Google Glass on his toddler, letting us all remember what it’s like to be a child. (via Buzzfeed)

Adorable kid!

infinitylooper: Something to think about: The Earth is 4.6...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:24:39 -0500

infinitylooper:

Something to think about:

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

This isn’t sustainable.

putting it into perspective

"Apparently in the future the liberals have extinguished all the white people,” Coulter explained, “I..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:07 -0500

““Apparently in the future the liberals have extinguished all the white people,” Coulter explained, “I mean they got a black girl running the communications, an Asian guy driving the ship and a pointy-eared alien doing pretty much everything else. “I guess we’re supposed to just accept that minorities will be the new majority. This isn’t an entertainment film - it’s nothing but a pro-Obama, multicultural piece of propaganda. “And of course its not even realistic. Since when have black people been able to speak foreign languages? And shouldn’t Sulu have crashed the ship into a quasar by now?””

- Ann Coulter Walks Out of Star Trek, Claims ‘Too Many Minorities’

ROFL

(via apoplecticskeptic)

crazy bitch

Squeeee A baby hoping goat

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:14:08 -0500

Squeeee

A baby hoping goat

TGIF

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:25:33 -0500

TGIF

l-a-r-o-s: Rolph Gobits

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:21:49 -0500

l-a-r-o-s:

Rolph Gobits

flavorpill: Get on your bike and ride!

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:21:34 -0500

flavorpill:

Get on your bike and ride!

senzasouldino: The Rumjacks - “An Irish Pub Song” Laughing...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:53:55 -0500

senzasouldino:

The Rumjacks - “An Irish Pub Song” Laughing Outlaw Records

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Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:59 -0500

laughingsquid: Famous People Pay Tribute to Cancer Patient by...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:24:25 -0500

laughingsquid:

Famous People Pay Tribute to Cancer Patient by Lip-Synching His Song

Really touching.

noir-neon:

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:50:52 -0500

noir-neon:

red-lipstick: Decomposerdoll aka Sara Dunn - A New Addition To...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:05:49 -0500

red-lipstick:

Decomposerdoll aka Sara Dunn - A New Addition To The Family, 2012 Paintings: Acrylics on Red Paper

Oh Kitty

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buttart: animals-riding-animals: wombat riding turtle the...

thunderpopcola: This is how you lose her. You lose her when...

blknymph: the cranberries - zombie this was my only childhood...

"But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands gloved with green. You can have..."

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Racism & Prejudice

"The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate..."

npr: A large study of 30,000 people in Copenhagen over 14 years...

cheatsheet: Dad puts Google Glass on his toddler, letting us...

infinitylooper: Something to think about: The Earth is 4.6...

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

"Apparently in the future the liberals have extinguished all the white people,” Coulter explained, “I..."

Squeeee A baby hoping goat

TGIF

l-a-r-o-s: Rolph Gobits

flavorpill: Get on your bike and ride!

senzasouldino: The Rumjacks - “An Irish Pub Song” Laughing...

Photo

laughingsquid: Famous People Pay Tribute to Cancer Patient by...

noir-neon:

red-lipstick: Decomposerdoll aka Sara Dunn - A New Addition To...

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.