December 2011
My official resolution list for 2012: The year of...
-write one poem every day for the whole year. -learn one new style of poetry each month -learn (at least) one new hoop trick a month -ORGANIZATION.
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Can 1 miracle plant solve the world's 3 greatest... →
If someone were to tell you that they had a technology — a weed actually — that could sequester huge amounts of carbon permanently while lifting villagers out of poverty by providing both protein-rich food and super-insulated building materials, you might start to wonder if they were, well, smoking a different weed.
Turtle eggs communicate to hatch together →
oldowan:
Talk about egging your siblings on. Baby turtles communicate before hatching to coordinate their arrival into the world.
Australian river turtles (Emydura macquarii) lay eggs in a hole in a sandy riverbank. Eggs at the cooler base of the nest develop more slowly and should hatch later than their warmer brethren at the top, says Ricky-John Spencer at the University of Western Sydney,...
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“Once I realized that there was no hope in any sort of normal future,...”
– Tim DeChristopher What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
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-_- SMH @ MiiSELF.
I brought this DELICIOUS curry pumpkin soup to work today to have for dinner. THERE’S NO MICROWAVE HERE ANYMORE?! I swear it was here like two days ago, but whatever I guess. I ate the piece of bread I brought by dipping it, and a bag of Cheetos (ew :() I’m starving but I want to wait to eat the rest of this when I can eat it heated upppp WAHHHH FML. Also, I have been power folding...
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“Bureaucracy becomes the perfect screen to mask culpability. If everyone is a...”
– Derrick Jensen and George Draffan,
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
(via cultureofresistance) Derrick Jensen, you did it again you fucking genius.
Forgiveness
rasputin:
is the release of all hope for a better past.
Wonderful. Did you make dis up?
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with... →
conjuringseed:
anticapitalist:
sanityscraps:
tellwiddit:
State-sanctioned rape by deception in the UK.
That’s fucking disgusting.
also;
“As regards being with women in very, very, very promiscuous groups such as the eco-wing, environmental movement, leftwing, or the Animal Liberation Front – it’s an extremely promiscuous lifestyle and you cannot not be promiscuous in there.”
i...
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted...”
– M. Ali (via disobey)
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else...”
– Albert Szent-Györgi (1893-1986) U. S. biochemist (via gleeforglia)
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Synthetic Marijuana Use On The Rise Among U.S.... →
cultureofresistance:
U.S. troops are increasingly using an easy-to-get herbal mix called “Spice,” which mimics a marijuana high, is hard to detect and can bring on hallucinations that last for days.
The abuse of the substance has so alarmed military officials that they’ve launched an aggressive testing program that this year has led to the investigation of more than 1,100 suspected users.
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“There are things we could have done in the ’80s, there are some things we...”
– Terry Root to Tim DeChristopher about what could have been done to prevent our current and impending climate change problems.
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“Turning the other cheek, I think, is one extremely radical thing. That, I think,...”
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Tim DeChristopher What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
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“You know, there’s a Syrian myth of going into the Underworld, and when you...”
– Terry Tempest Williams, What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
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“I think our economic model, in a big sense-our whole economic system-protects...”
– Tim DeChristopher What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
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“We have much higher levels of consumption, and that’s how people have been...”
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Tim DeChristopher What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
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“I got to the point of looking at Christianity and the Bible as more of a...”
– Tim DeChristopher, What Love Looks Like: A conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Tim DeChristopher. Orion Magazine, January/February 2012
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Man oh man,
last nights show at Water Street Music Hall in Rochester, NY was fantastic! I drove up with the band Aqueous’ manager Josh and lights guy Karl, plus two other lovely ladies Caroline and Amy. We got there a few hours early and just chilled and met some people from The Buddahood and Kalmia from Rubblebucket. As Aqueous was doing a soundcheck, I knew the night was going to be awesome, Water...
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