Due to a beautiful mathematical result involving the “harmonic series”, it turns out you can stack books with as much overhang as you want:
And, of course, planking needs no introduction:
But why, oh WHY, have these two things never been combined?
(via What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once? | Pat’s Papers, via my colleague Dorrie)
I love data.
This needs to stop. Women don’t take the decision to get an abortion lightly, and Congress (83.2% male) is treating us like children.
You all need to sign this. Pro-choice or not, auditing rape survivors is simply disgusting, and we should all be able to agree on that.
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The bill would impose tax penalties on small businesses and individuals who buy abortion coverage with their own money—with exceptions only for cases of rape, incest, or when a woman’s life is in danger.
The result? Survivors of rape and incest who seek abortion care could be forced to detail their assaults and provide proof to IRS investigators.”
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This makes my blood boil.
(via theriotmag)
Dystopian Novel: (n)a story that revolves around a hellish, usually politically driven world that is, within the story itself, viewed as utopia. The plot usually follows one or more characters that slowly come to the realization that their world is not as perfect as society or the government is telling everyone.
Often, when a piece of literature has a deeply political purpose, it falls short at the aesthetic level. And often, that’s just fine—a book need not be everything all at once. The Handmaid’s Tale, though, does both. It is devastating and beautiful. I read it more than ten years ago, and yet when I saw this image of the cover today, I trembled.
(Source: moviesandmusicandbooksohmy, via bohemianarthouse)
