March 2012
“Well, a flashing neuron is no big deal. That’s what brain cells do. When a brain...”
– Is there a neuron devoted specifically to Jennifer Anniston? (via flavorpill)
Joe thinks that this is a bad analogy of how a neuron works and really good example of how using simple words can hide the actual meaning of the research. Neurons don’t flash. Your brain doesn’t have electricity running...
greaterthanlapsed:
“…Scalia doesn’t seem to realize that the so-called “Cornhusker kickback” wasn’t included in the Affordable Care Act; it was taken out before passage. Scalia probably heard something about it on Fox News, assumed it was true, and internalized his party’s talking points. More than two years later, the conservative justice is still parroting a claim that has no basis in fact —...
society: ew thick girls
society: ew thin girls
society: ew no makeup
society: ew too much makeup
society: ew you're rude
society: ew you're too nice
society: ew plastic surgery
society: ew you need a makeover
society: ew you're not perfect
society: ew you're too perfect
society: ew
SOUL Summer School →
newwavefeminism:
montesireland:
SOUL Summer School is an intensive 8-week introduction to community organizing and social change, designed for young activists who have been involved with social justice organizing for at least one year. SOUL is dedicated to building the skills of young women, young people of color, working class, and queer people as the next generation of leaders in the social...
What Is the Best Option in a Free-Falling... →
jtotheizzoe:
A letter to the New York Times asks:
Q. If I find myself in a free-falling elevator, is there any position that might increase my chance of survival? (Climbing on top of other people is not an acceptable answer.)
And a scientist responds … Hint, the answer isn’t “Jump at the last second”.
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (via cyberspacecowboy)
Painful because of how true it is.
(via stfuconservatives)
Google's self-driving car takes blind man to Taco... →
stfuconservatives:
“Where this would change my life is to give me the independence and the flexibility to go to the places I both want to go and need to go when I need to do those things,” Steve Mahan says in the video.
The self-driving car takes Mahan to Taco Bell for a quick meal and a dry cleaner to pick up his clothes.
“Look, Ma, no hands,” Mahan says. “No hands, no feet.”
Disabled...
CA Republicans Sue Hispanic Dem Candidate For... →
sarahlee310:
A law firm with ties to the California GOP is deeply bothered to see Mexican-American Jose Hernandez’s name on the ballot for U.S. Congress (that is not the joke yet, but we could probably just stop there, ha ha) because he has listed himself as “astronaut” on the line for his occupation. Hernandez, the son of migrant Mexican laborers, is a recently retired astronaut, a fact the...
Watchbi-in-alberta:
ihopericksantorum:
“We know the candidate Barack Obama what he was like, the anti-war goverment nigg—the uh—…” Wow.
Can’t wait to see the shitstorm tomorrow morning.
americastestkitchen:
Cook’s Tip of the Day: Flambe is not just for show: it removes the majority of alcohol added to a sauce, in addition to boosting flavor.
“we should get rid of unpaid internships. The children of the new upper class...”
– GOOD does not pay its interns. It should! (via amandahess)
dats true
(via beccaglass)
preach. fuck unpaid internships
(via televisionismygirlfriend)
seriously
(via freibiergesicht)
I had a friend who was accepted to a program where he could spend a semester in DC. But the program requires...
“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical depression....”
– Rachel Maddow, on depression
(via NPR’s Fresh Air)
americastestkitchen:
Cook’s Tip of the Day: Don’t judge a strawberry by its color. As a non-climacteric fruit, it may darken once harvested, but will not sweeten.
“I was stopped and questioned seven times by University police on my way into the...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, on racism at the University of Texas, Austin (via sheikhmaat)
See also Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds...
Watchnewwavefeminism:
fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:
Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task
Few intellectuals have waged a public battle against white supremacy and patriarchy like Toni Morrison. Morrison has both examined and challenged systems of domination throughout her intellectual life. With her novels, essays, and interviews she has taken critical looks at the interlocking systems of race...
When POC characters are turned white: this isin't about race, if you think it is then you're the racist one, lets just enjoy the book/film as it is, this is about the character's personality god you're so sensitive, the new skin tone actually fits the character's personality IMO, I never imagined them as POC anyway, not all whitewashing is racist god get over it!!111
When white characters are turned into POC: omg how could they!?!?!? this is soooo racist and unfair! why cant they present that white character as WHITE, how dare they change the original skin color to suit their own terms! this is reverse racism!! this is about race! I NEVER imaged that white character to be a POC that is so weird, it doesn't fit, this is political correctness gone crazy!!
When POC characters stay POC but readers/viewers imagined them as white: THIS IS SO WRONG. This isn't how they looked. i don't care what it says in the booooook because i imagined they lookd different. ugh the film is ruined now. Ruined.