Eduardo de Oliveira Padoan

neil-gaiman:

jupiterstarr:

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

they say New orleans is haunted… this has proved the theory 100%

I was sending photos like this to everyone when I started writing Nightmare in Silver. There is something uniquely disturbing about abandoned Amusement Parks.

I keep imagining, If the human race was to perish now, how our traces would be reabsorbed by nature, what kind of marks would be left behind, and for how long would they last, in a recognizable form.

ladymarla:

Does anyone know where I could purchase this 1:400 scale Serenity model? Other than ThinkGeek, their shipping is way to expensive for an already expensive item.

I’ve tried ebay and Minotaur, no luck.

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Or: GIVE UNSOLICITED ADVICE OFTEN AND LOUDLY

mediaite:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’

How can I feel be anxious and a little worried, and bored at the same time?

1. Queen Adreena (46) 
2. This Heat (33) 
3. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (26) 
4. Naked On The Vague (18) 
5. Melvins (16) 

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

odditiesoflife:

Glass Frog

The glass frog is a fascinating little creature. While most of the frog’s body is lime green, the abdominal skin is translucent. Most of the internal organs, including the heart, liver, and gastrointestinal tract are visible through its translucent skin. The glass frog is also very small in size, ranging from 3 to 7 cm.

Johnny Cash - “Hurt”

I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.

—Trent Reznor

Tim Holt on why we still see the number of females in STEM fields fall way behind their male counterparts. Also see how geography paved the way for women in science.

(↬ gender and science)

It’s true the amount of popular female scientists and researchers is comparatively lacking - but having a solid role model shouldn’t be the only motivating factor in young girls pursuing STEM fields.  A recent Smithsonian Magazine article revealed that 49% of female STEM college students say they chose their field because of a desire to make a difference, compared with34% of male STEM students, andthere arejust as many women are pursuing STEM fields as undergraduates - but once they graduated college, 73.2% of science and engineering jobs were held by men.  

I did not pursue a STEM degree as an undergraduate because I did not think there was any room left for individual input, interpretation, or creative control.  Obviously now I see how absolutely incorrect that thinking is, but what that has taught me is this: if high school graduates see these fields as stagnant and unappealing spoon-feedings of rudimentary knowledge, we desperately need to change how work in the field is presented.  We need to emphasize the need for creativity and innovation.  And I don’t think there’s any argument that young women aren’t fully capable of being able to do this, but we have to keep them in the workforce.  The truth is, ladies, that your inclination to join the field in the hope that you can make a difference or even change the world is absolutely accurate.  That is exactly the kind of motivating self-initiative that the world needs. 

 Smithsonian Magazine’s: Infographic: Where a STEM Education Can Take You 

The above is from  thebrainscoop. I really can’t add anything to what she said.

warrenellis:

Rules for my new readers: you have to commit a crime & tell the arresting officer I made you do it. Helps me sell books.

I was having an operation done, no I didn’t know what for 
I just ended up being there, hadn’t been paying attention 
I was very afraid - we were downtown outside 
It seemed hardly the place for an operation

I wish there was someone there, someone I knew

Noam Chomsky: Things Are Ugly—Do Something About It