February 2012
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“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– Arundhati Roy
Always reblog.
(via ideasandopinions)
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Winter Camping
guaranteed that the dude with the most expensive arcteryx whatever gear is doing the most complaining about the cold.
“Chaplin received the longest standing ovation in Academy Award history, lasting...”
– Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blood mystery solved: Two new blood types... →
“An indigenous community has launched a lawsuit against the Canadian government...”
– Canada indigenous group sues over pollution - Americas - Al Jazeera English
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...”
– Andrew Boyd (via consciousbeing)
The myth of the eight-hour sleep. [BBC] →
fatsy:
“…In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a...
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Two In A Room
“First and foremost, when looking at the standards for mental illness, it is not...”
– Stefan Molyneux (via 122782)
Starting March 1st, A Red License Plate in Nevada... →
An extended campaign in Nevada by Google has led to a new host of provisions which will allow automated cars to legally drive in the state. Starting March 1st, 2012 innovators like Google can officially apply for a new kind of robot driver’s license that will give them permission to openly test their cars on the road. Automated vehicles will be able to travel the same streets and highways as...
“female nipples or even the impressions of nipples under clothing are...”
– Low-wage Facebook contractor leaks secret censorship list | The Raw Story
blockhead - dough nation
Australian Woman Scams More Than $30,000 From... →
“The endless growth of suburbia is based on cheap oil. Supermarkets are based on...”
– Anarchism and the Peak Oil Argument, Terry S (via solitaryforager)
Are Pets Psychic? A Cambridge Scientist Believes... →
Many cats seem to know, for example, when they are going to the vet’s — hiding away in the hope that their owners might get bored of looking for them and give up on the idea.
More dramatically, some animals seem to sense when their owners have had accidents or have died in distant places — as documented on my database of more than 5,000 case histories involving psychic phenomena in...
“Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun...”
– Edward Abbey (via consciousbeing)
Recycle All You Want, The Planet Won't Notice →
magcle:
“Gernot Wagner, an Austrian economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, is a staunch advocate for living green. He takes public transit, recycles, and totes a reusable shopping bag to Whole Foods. But he’s well aware that his deeds aren’t even beginning to have a serious impact on the health of the planet. And neither are yours.”
Tumble into Peeka: Surprising but True Things... →
extravidual:
I started studying linguistics because I find the study of language most intriguing. Here is some interesting trivia about language to show you why: (1) Grammar is actually a much more complex phenomenon than anything that could ever be taught in school, but nevertheless every…
Children’s dictionary dumps ‘nature’ words «... →
via Next Nature
To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to old nature. No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow.
According to Vineeta Gupta, who heads...
henrycharlesbukowski:
my dear, I say, there are men out there now picking tomatoes, lettuce, even cotton, there are men and women dying under the sun, there are men and women dying in factories for nothing, a pittance… I can hear the sound of human lives being ripped to pieces… you don’t know how lucky we are…
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - Charles Bukowski