October 2011
1 post
Planking and the Harmonic Series
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?
August 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
10 posts
11 Great Reasons to Skip College (and Build Your... →
Petition against the bill to audit rape survivors →
lostgrrrls:
inherhipstheresrevolutions:
propaganda-for-life:
ghostmonkey:
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.
”
The bill would impose tax penalties on...
Where are the female politicians who misbehave? →
Imagine a world where nobody wore Hollister shirts.
“She said society was “saturated in sex” and teenagers should be...”
– (via Gauntlet: Nadine Dorries: Teenage girls should be taught how to say no to sex)
Umm… yeah… because history has clearly shown that adults have not only the ability but also the right to “teach” teenagers about what is “cool”.
*sigh*
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
4 posts
“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird...”
– David Foster Wallace (via azspot)
Oh, yes. How lovely. Reminds me of this boldly sincere album description by the Avett Brothers.
David DeAngelo: Skeezbucket Extraordinaire →
“I’m gonna show you the difference between how men and women think about dating, and I’m gonna show you why most women are trying to keep you unsuccessful.”
Oh. My. God. This guy. Wow.
Petition to tell the NYTimes to Apologize for... →
theriotmag:
edman:
drmonkeyface:
turn-on-the-neon:
I’m literally shaking in anger and disgust.
If you have the time, please.
Signed, and shared.
Done.
Sign. We HAVE to hold the media accountable for perpetuating rape culture and victim blaming.
I’m going to sign this, but I do have some reservations. I’m not sure exactly what the NYT author should have done here. ...
Science is broken! →
This fascinating article New Yorker article, The Truth Wears Off, discusses the “decline effect,” where certain scientific findings—supposedly proved using well-established, seemingly rigorous experimental method—fail to be replicable years later.
I always enjoy it when we ever-so-clever humans get outclassed by the world.
(P.S. For the record, I do know that science...
February 2011
8 posts
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? →
Woah. These folks have taken the casual and entertaining subject of many a late night bar conversation to a new level. And, surprisingly, I’m finding it remarkably plausible.
If you don’t want all the formal philosophy and probability, skip to this popular synopsis of the argument.
The Invention of “Adolescence” →
The idea that young people take a decade to grow up, in the meantime inhabiting a space called “young adulthood,” is rather new in American culture. A bit older is the idea of “adolescence,” the idea that there is a stage between childhood and (young) adulthood that is characterized by immaturity and capriciousness: the teenage years. Before these ideas were invented, children were expected to...
What the fuck. Why didn't somebody tell me about...
I am getting old… and my friends are either withholding assholes or just as lame and old as me.
Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions... →
Via my colleague Mimi.
January 2011
1 post
Unbelievable →
inourownprettyways:
As some of you may be aware, Kenneth Tong has a twitter which he has been using to promote managed anorexia.
These are just the tip of the ice berg, there are pages and pages of this shit. It’s one of the most unbelievable and sickening things I have ever seen. People all over the world…
December 2010
3 posts
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
3 posts
Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea →
November 2009
1 post
Montessori School Of Dentistry Lets Students... →
October 2009
1 post
Need a place to crash in DC tonight
Dear DC Tumblr community from which i’ve been absent,
Can anyone spare a couch for me to crash on tonight? I’m in DC without a car and need to catch a flight tomorrow.
September 2009
2 posts
writhe and
gape of tortured
perspective
rasp and graze of splintered
normality
crackle and
sag
of planes clamors of
collision
collapse As
peacefully,
lifted
into the awful beauty
of sunset
the young city
putting off dimension with a...
August 2009
26 posts
bunnynico:
“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov...”
– Roger Ebert (via kaylynashley)
Asimov’s Nightfall was written in response to a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s short essay Nature: “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance ...
3 tags
“I think part of the problem is separating individuals from dominant cultural...”
– a comment on this post that a lot of people would benefit from trying to understand (via katoleary) (via gauntlet)
This is an interesting point, and one that feels like a serious conundrum to me.
On the one hand, I agree that it’s important, when reading a cultural critique like the one...
I Love North Carolina
I love it for many, many, many reasons, but the specific one that prompted this post: I’m in a Caribou Coffee and “Souls Like the Wheels” by the Avett Brothers is playing.
“Mess Around”, by Professor Longhair
...