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Posted 19 hours ago
British people have lately witnessed a tragedy, and we lived through it together, when right in the streets of London a British army serviceman was brutally murdered outside his barracks. Is it these people that the Europeans want to supply arms? What happens next with those weapons? Who will control in which hands they end up? They could possibly (end up) in Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin • Defending his opposition to supplying the Syrian opposition with weapons, even as Russia honors contracts with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, during a two-day G8 meeting at a resort in Northern Ireland this week. Putin described Russia’s transactions as “legal contracts” with the “legal government” of Syria, and the Russian President remains the Syrian government’s most prominent/powerful ally. source (via shortformblog)

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Can the world, as a whole, just agree to stop funneling weapons, period, to either side of this civil war?

Cant say I disagree with the sentiment, but Hezbollah surely would have a bit of trouble cooperating with that request.

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Posted 20 hours ago

4wheelsworld:

Porsche 911 Carrera 4

Most of the time, I feel I can safely say “no” to expensive things without feeling like I’m missing out on something, but there were always a few exceptions to that. This happens to be one of them.

Just to watch the light dance off the paint on the curving fenders. Just to feel the chassis hunker down and let the Michelins claw the tarmac. Just to hear the flat-6 wail.

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Posted 2 days ago
bostonreview: Ta-Nehisi Coates in comments to his article on teaching writing at MIT (via Jamison Foser) Memo to all pedants. “Using your acquired knowledge to bully someone who lacks is really low… it destroys intellectual inquiry and sincerity and builds a club of ‘Look What I Know.” This happens more often than I wish it would, in the music field. Zoom

bostonreview:

Ta-Nehisi Coates in comments to his article on teaching writing at MIT (via Jamison Foser)

Memo to all pedants.

“Using your acquired knowledge to bully someone who lacks is really low… it destroys intellectual inquiry and sincerity and builds a club of ‘Look What I Know.”

This happens more often than I wish it would, in the music field.

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Posted 1 week ago

hragv:

LOVE!

itscolossal:

The Geometric Paper Torso, Now with DIY Templates and Instructions

Med student gift ideas?

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Posted 1 week ago

npr:

Isn’t being stuck on the tarmac a drag? Not when you have the Philadelphia Orchestra on board with you. Read more at NPR’s The Two-Way.

Why couldn’t these guys have been on my flight from DFW to JFK, this morning?

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Posted 2 weeks ago
girlwithalessonplan: thelearningbrain: mothernaturenetwork: Student science experiment finds plants won’t grow near Wi-Fi router Ninth-graders design science experiment to test the effect of cellphone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you. hmmm… Whoa. Let’s review: FIVE NINTH-GRADE GIRLS in a science class made a discovery in an experiment that is making waves in the science community. “It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day. They wanted to test the effect of a cellphone’s radiation on humans, but their school, Hjallerup School in Denmark, did not have the equipment to handle such an experiment. So the girls designed an experiment that would test the effect of cellphone radiation on a plant instead.” Zoom

girlwithalessonplan:

thelearningbrain:

mothernaturenetwork:

Student science experiment finds plants won’t grow near Wi-Fi router
Ninth-graders design science experiment to test the effect of cellphone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you.

hmmm…

Whoa.

Let’s review: FIVE NINTH-GRADE GIRLS in a science class made a discovery in an experiment that is making waves in the science community.

“It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day. They wanted to test the effect of a cellphone’s radiation on humans, but their school, Hjallerup School in Denmark, did not have the equipment to handle such an experiment. So the girls designed an experiment that would test the effect of cellphone radiation on a plant instead.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago
Bahahah Zoom

Bahahah

(Source: i-march-clarinet)

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Posted 1 month ago

"You're fucked but you're free..." A comparatively fresh take on life after college.

“Everything you experience from here forward is useful. Every failure, every shitty night spent in a weird airport, every person you meet, every sleazy table-running job you work, every book you read … all of it is useful. All of it is fuel. Even when you’re experiencing something miserable, you’re probably experiencing something that someone else will be able to relate to. That’s useful. You see the world through the eyes of more and more people as you go. You know where Steve Jobs’s first job was? At a stupid hippie apple orchard. Then he named his company Apple and BOOM! Billions. It’s all useful later on. Every stupid thing you’ve ever done brings you that much closer to becoming a fully formed person, one with his own distinctive outlook, his own voice, his own stories to tell … a person that can be of service to the universe.”

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Posted 2 months ago

How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law : NPR

With no fanfare, Congress moved to undo large parts of the popular law known as the STOCK Act, and President Obama has signed the watered-down measure into law. Insider trading is still illegal, but disclosures of large stock trades by staffers will be harder to get than under the original law.

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Posted 2 months ago

Stand with Boston. Pray for Boston. Make art for Boston. Live your life for those who can’t in Boston.

If you fear for the future of humanity, remember that you are a part of humanity. You can do just as much good against the evil that has unveiled itself.

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Posted 2 months ago
timeshaiku: A haiku from the article: Balkan Promises: Hiking the Albanian Alps Haiku excerpts from New York Times articles. Tell me this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Zoom

timeshaiku:

A haiku from the article: Balkan Promises: Hiking the Albanian Alps

Haiku excerpts from New York Times articles. Tell me this isn’t an April Fool’s joke.

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Quote Post 54
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Posted 4 months ago
I used to say of apartheid that it dehumanized its perpetrators as much as, if not more than, its victims. Your response as a society to Osama bin Laden and his followers threatens to undermine your moral standards and your humanity.

Desmond M. Tutu (via squashed)

Cant say the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t have a point there. 

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