September 2011
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“A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure to...”
– A quote from an organic farmer interviewed for Food, Inc.
(via oversets)
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6174 (number) →
bestofwikipedia:
6174 is known as Kaprekar’s constant after the Indian mathematician D. R. Kaprekar. This number is notable for the following property: 1. Take any four-digit number, using at least two different digits. (Leading zeros are allowed.) 2. Arrange the digits in ascending and then in descending order to get two four-digit numbers, adding leading zeros if necessary. 3. Subtract the...
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“Premise Four: Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet...”
– Derrick Jensen (via fyeahderrickjensen)
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“Something in us recognizes the cosmos as home. We are made of stellar ash. Our...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via fuckyeahspace) (via saturnrising)
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“And who the hell says “boudoir”? “Hey, look at me. I’m kinky, and I’m in the...”
– Karen Walker (via calsayshi)
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“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is...”
– Bertrand Russell (via alwaysinrepair)
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Four hundred million years ago there were 400,... →
ohyeahfacts:
As long as humans have lived on Earth, the day has been 24 hours long. But humans are just a blip in the history of the planet. Not long after the Earth formed more than four billion years ago, a day was less than ten hours long. Four hundred million years ago there were 400…
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“What you seek is seeking you.”
– Rumi (via funeral, therese86)
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Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? →
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“I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different...”
– Robinson Jeffers (via nathanielstuart)
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Help NASA Find Life On Mars With MAPPER →
sisterspock:
itsfullofstars:
Would you like to participate in NASA’s analog research program? Interested in helping scientists pinpoint where to look for signs of life on Mars and elsewhere in the universe? Now you can, with an exciting new citizen science website called MAPPER (getmapper.com) that was launched in conjunction with the Pavilion Lake Research Project’s 2011 field season.
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Flick Chicks: A Guide to Women in the Movies →
alpha-lima-lima:
By Mindy Kaling.
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did-you-kno:
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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)
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“One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but that’s quite hard...”
– Jeanette Winterson(via holdonmagnolia)
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Lately I’ve been working on adding tags to my older posts in order to make the archive a bit easier to navigate. It’s not failproof yet (I may have accidentally tagged posts that do not fit into a particular category, thanks to the super user friendly mega post editor) and there is an overlap between some categories, but at least it’s something.
A few more or less...
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“Stay committed in your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” -Tom...”
– http://tinybuddha.com/ (via parkstepp)
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“I remember that moment because, if I am honest, I have them so seldom. I am not...”
– Tana French, from In the Woods (aubade, somnusandsomnia) (via airwalker) 