Why?

the-science-llama: Reflection and Emission Nebulas— Rho...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:43:15 -0500

the-science-llama:

Reflection and Emission Nebulas
— Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

Credit: Gerald Rhemann // Astrostudio

Sweet Melodies

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:13:09 -0500

And it doesn’t take much to surprise me

When you hypnotize me with those pretty deep brown eyes

And I know you could love pretty girls instead of me,

But they won’t love you like I do so faithfully

So how about you stay and we can talk all through the night?

We’ll listen to the rain, and eat Turkish Delight

And one by one the years will slip right through our fingertips,

But these sweet melodies will keep flowing through our lips

johnphilp: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington DC AKA my...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:30:07 -0500

johnphilp:

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Washington DC

AKA my beautiful future home

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:40:36 -0600

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:40:18 -0600

"Consider the world around you. You are holding a book made of paper, the crushed pulp of a tree...."

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:05:39 -0600

“Consider the world around you. You are holding a book made of paper, the crushed pulp of a tree. Trees are machines able to take a supply of atoms and molecules, break them down and rearrange them into cooperating colonies composed of many trillions of individual parts. They do this using a molecule known as chlorophyll, composed of over a hundred carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms twisted into an intricate shape with a few magnesium and nitrogen atoms bolted on. This assembly of particles is able to capture the light that has travelled the 93 million miles from our star, a nuclear furnace the volume of a million earths, and transfer that energy into the heart of cells, where it is used to build molecules from carbon dioxide and water, giving out life-enriching oxygen as it does so. It’s these molecular chains that form the superstructure of trees and all living things, the paper in your book. You can read the book and understand the words because you have eyes that can convert the scattered light from the pages into electrical impulses that are interpreted by your brain, the most complex structure we know of in the Universe. We have discovered that all these things are nothing more than assemblies of atoms, and that the wide variety of atoms are constructed using only three particles: electrons, protons and neutrons. We have also discovered that the protons and neutrons are themselves made up of smaller entities called quarks, and that it is where things stop, as far as we can tell today. Underpinning all of this is quantum theory.”

- The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

by physicist Brian Cox and University of Manchester professor Jeff Forshaw
(via ikenbot)

oliverbarrett: My submission for G1988’s Judd Apatow show....

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:27:41 -0600

oliverbarrett:

My submission for G1988’s Judd Apatow show. Desario Rules.

myweirdandwonderfulmind: this guy is a lyrical...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:03:03 -0600

myweirdandwonderfulmind:

this guy is a lyrical genius

scroobius pip - introdiction

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Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:56:19 -0600

Because I’m a fucking feminist, that’s why.

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:57:17 -0600

Because I’m a fucking feminist, that’s why.

awkwardshelbycomic: TACO HELL

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:52:40 -0600

awkwardshelbycomic:

TACO HELL

And I won't feel a thing: Chick-fil-A agrees to stop funding anti-gay groups

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:48:16 -0500

And I won't feel a thing: Chick-fil-A agrees to stop funding anti-gay groups:

superblys:

ussawesome:

xtjna:

gigaku:

feministdisney:

An interesting outcome to the whole Chick-Fil-A thing.

“Chick-fil-A, the fast food chain that sparked a firestorm earlier this year after its president made public comments against same sex marriage, has…

Woo! Now I feel (less) guilty for working there! I think it was only a matter of time, anyways.

So tumblerers, today I was doing some twitter creeping on the #ObamaSweatshirtSlogans hashtag, and...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:01:42 -0500

So tumblerers, today I was doing some twitter creeping on the #ObamaSweatshirtSlogans hashtag, and found a guy who wrote, quote:

‏@chasebeggs

Whocares about #ObamaSweatshirtSlogans ?? #whitepower@blakewasham

at 5:09 PM.

I just sat there, staring at the #whitepower hashtag for a few moments, shocked. I asked him if he was joking.

He wasn’t.

When I asked him further about it, he said, “well they say black power so i guess im allowed to say that!!!”. This is the kind of ignorant bullshit mindset that pisses me off, and that continues to get in the way of America’s progress towards racial equality.

Who wants to see Mitt Romney talk about squirrels?

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:06:51 -0500

Who wants to see Mitt Romney talk about squirrels?:

Funniest shit ever. I died.

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Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:28:36 -0500

because fuck love, that’s why

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:25:12 -0500

because fuck love, that’s why

Slow dancing with myself over here. Join me, and we can sway...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:24:00 -0500

Slow dancing with myself over here. Join me, and we can sway together into the 40’s?

"Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a..."

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:18:09 -0500

“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a racist; not being racist — or a sexist or a homophobe — is a constant, arduous process of unlearning, of being uncomfortable, of eating crow and being humbled and re-evaluating. It’s probably hard to start that process if you’ve been told that every thought you have is golden and should be given voice, and that people who are offended by what you say are hypersensitive simpletons.”

- PostBourgie

Yes yes yes a thousand times yes. Seriously.

(via polyverse, meow-sense) (via iamacollectionofmiscellanyandtea)
(via theviolentflame)

fishingboatproceeds: My friends Meg Liffick and Joe Ball got...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:03:26 -0500

fishingboatproceeds:

My friends Meg Liffick and Joe Ball got married yesterday.

When it came time for the couple’s traditional first dance, Joe read prepared remarks explaining that instead of dancing together, they wanted to open the dance floor to their gay and lesbian friends who are still legally denied the right to marry.

This was a large and very diverse wedding in a state that doesn’t even recognize same-sex civil unions, let alone marriage. And yet the ovation that these people received while dancing to The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” was like nothing I’ve ever heard at any wedding. If there were dry eyes, I didn’t see any.

Change is coming.

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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:51:51 -0500