January 2012
“Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want...”
– Unknown (via kari-shma)
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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the...”
– Bertrand Russell (via larmoyante)
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“A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring...”
– The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (via overturetoalabasterskin)
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via blogut)
Joe Wright's 'Anna Karenina' Shot On A Single... →
Inspired by his idea that the book is “about the search for the authentic life,” the film will see the world of Anna, her husband Karenin and her lover Count Vronsky intrude on this theatrical setting, with full-size trains running through one moment and the “stage” converted into an ice rink the next. Other rooms will connect directly to the theater, while toy trains and...
“The Orient Express is like a small encapsulation of the process of travel...”
– Le Projet D’amour: Orient Express (via twistednuns)
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized...”
– Fidel Castro Calls Republican Field a ‘Competition of Idiocy’ - NYTimes (via brooklynmutt)
COMMUNIST! COMPLETELY ACCURATE COMMUNIST!
(via tehblackbirdisincognito)
Fidel has jokes, everyone!
(via desertmar)
Whats that saying? Even a broken clock is right twice a day?
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Quite possibly the most nonsensical article you... →
Why life begins and ends on Earth
Advanced life is unique to our planet - despite Stephen Hawking and SETI’s best hopes, argues Steve Jones.
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“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to...”
– Celia Bown (The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern)
ACTA petition.
suzywire:
internet-justice:
ACTA has already been signed by several countries, but if we can get the European Parliament to vote no, it can be dismantled and sent back.
Sign here
Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts... →
The way I see it, that’s 150 million chances lost to improve the quality of the Internet. JSTOR, as the keeper of so much great scholarly work, should be one of the Internet’s dominant suppliers of facts and serious research. But if something is not publicly available, key gatekeepers like journalists and Wikipedians, move to the best available source, even if they know that there probably is a...
“Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you...”
– The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (via overturetoalabasterskin)
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Nanoparticle trick 'boosts body's vaccine...
Tiny capsules engineered to mimic part of the body’s immune system could strengthen its response to vaccines, say researchers.
(via BBC News - Nanoparticle trick ‘boosts body’s vaccine response’)
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“If an answer were possible death would not travel alongside life, life would not...”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions I, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
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Thousands gather in Cairo on anniversary of... →
Cairo (CNN) — Thousands of people gathered under rainy skies in Cairo’s Tahrir Square early Wednesday, exactly one year after the start of the revolution that ousted longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak but, many say, accomplished little else.
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Call to Rename Centre of Skopje After Alexander →
fyeaheasterneurope:
Todor Petrov, head of a pan-Macedonian non-profit organization, the World Macedonian Congress, has called on the authorities to rename the Skopje municipality now called Centar after the Ancient warrior king.
In the online magazine Macedonian Nation at the weekend, Petrov said it was only logical for the municipality to be renamed in this way as it now contains a...
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“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She...”
– Frederica Mathewews-Green (via brazenbitch)
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Totes Meer trocknete vor 125.000 Jahren fast aus →
250 Meter unter dem Boden des Toten Meeres haben Wissenschaftler dicke Salzschichten gefunden. Sie stammen offenbar aus einer Zeit, in der der See fast verschwunden war. Für die Zukunft lässt das nach Meinung der Forscher nichts Gutes ahnen.
250 metres beneath the soil of the Red Sea scientists have found thick layers of salt, that are evidently remnants of a time when the sea had almost...
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Wilders: kans akkoord op 50-50 →
“Als je kijkt naar het programma van de SP, dan wordt Nederland onveiliger. Dan wordt Nederland Europeser, duurder en dan krijgen we nog meer asiel en immigratie”, zegt Wilders. “Als je naar de inhoud kijkt, dan houd ik mijn hart vast als ze het ooit in Nederland voor het zeggen krijgen.”
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Researchers find genetic mechanism linked to... →
sciencenote:
“Approximately 1.3 million children and adults in the United States live with congenital heart disease—requiring daily medications, surgeries and for some, heart transplants,” said Dr. Bruneau, who is also a professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated. “An understanding of the epigenetic regulation of heart development...