March 2012
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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan (1934-1996), in his article In the Valley of the Shadow Parade Magazine Also, Billions and Billions p. 215 (via dream-hope-act)
“If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then...”
– Carl Sagan (via dream-hope-act)
February 2012
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usagov:
Saturn Radio Waves
Audio Description
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“The brain is a 1.5 kilogram mass of jelly, the consistency of tofu, you can hold...”
– Adventures In Behavioral Neurology—or—what Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature (via azspot)
did you know it's ok to spit out the wine when...
art00r:
I didn’t and I ended up drinking a shitload of wine like enough to be liegitimately feeling drunk vintage port tastes pretty nice though! but I’m not looking forward to drunk TF2 scrimming hey tumblr has different icons now
My first wine tasting resulted in me being too drunk to attend a lecture afterwards because no one in my group told me this during the tasting. My friends.. ugh :P
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RIP Tumblr Dashboard Icons 2007-2012
You were the only thing that never changed about Tumblr, and now you’re gone.
New icons are fug. Welp.
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees...”
– Carl Sagan (via fyeahcarlsagan)
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Carl Sagan - You Are Here (Pale...
“After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a...”
– Carl Sagan (via floridabeachbum)
“Right-wing fundamentalists such as Republican presidential candidate Rick...”
– Henry A. Giroux (via azspot)
“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no...”
– From “Act of Valor,” via Absolutely American (via mnmal)
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scientists-and-artists:
How the First Plant Came to Be
A genetic analysis reveals the ancient, complex—and symbiotic—roots of photosynthesis in plants
Earth is the planet of the plants—and it all can be traced back to one green cell. The world’s lush profusion of photosynthesizers—from towering redwoods to ubiquitous diatoms—owe their existence to a tiny alga eons ago that swallowed a...
Persons against the Personhood Act in Oklahoma →
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obscenegestur:
You all better freaking reblog the shit out of this, or I’ll be mad at you forever.
Everyone everywhere should be against this.
Everything is Connected - Sean Carroll on Brian... →
jtotheizzoe:
Earlier this week, we were treated to rock star physicist Brian Cox explaining how everything in the universe is connected via the Pauli exclusion principle. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it so you’re up to speed.
The clip was from his “A Night With The Stars” televised lecture, which is something that would never make it on TV in the US, and that is sad.
In it, he rubbed a...
“In America today, anti-evolutionism matters because it has become the vanguard...”
– Ken Miller, Biology Professor from Brown University and Roman Catholic, on America’s Darwin Problem (via crookedindifference)
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ohio-is4-lovers:
These are not chips.
They are crisps.
These are chips.
That is all.
we don’t care
#DON’T TELL ME WHAT MY FOOD IS
THIS IS A VEGETABLE
BECAUSE WE LIVE IN AMERICA
These are chips
and these are chips too
That is all.
who the fuck...
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I have been awake all damn night.
In between playing Nightmare House 2, studying the workings of a piece of crap pseudo virus (written by an imbecile of a professor, dare I say), writing programs for AI, and navigating the unfamiliar, murky waters of Half-Life 2 mod development, I just can’t seem to relax. This coffee really isn’t helping either.
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FUCK YEAH, TF2: Communities VS Pros III - "Cold... →
fuckyeahtf2:
What up!?!?!? Dirty here with some very exciting news presented by EOReality, eXtv, and PubComp. We’ve got the third edition of Community Vs Pros, this time entitled “Cold War”, so for all of you Heavies out there and especially Ruskeydoo from UGC (Heavy for Community…