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ponyboy-draws: iv come to dismantle the patriarchy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:22:52 +0800

ponyboy-draws:

iv come to dismantle the patriarchy

rainerhowitzer: I love them both so much

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:50:01 +0800

rainerhowitzer:

I love them both so much

"When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:46:06 +0800

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”

- Abraham Joshua Heschel (via mercurieux)

"I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:38:51 +0800

““I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home, his dad asked him not what he learned in school but his dad said, ‘Did you ask any great questions today?’ And I always thought, what a beautiful way to educate kids that we’re excited by their questions, not by our answers and whether they can repeat our answers.””

- Diane Sawyer (via creatingaquietmind)

Futurity.org – Modern life freaks out the clock in your brain

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:29:01 +0800

Futurity.org – Modern life freaks out the clock in your brain:

“We proved we had found a GABAergic network by applying drugs that block GABA receptors on the cells,” Herzog says. “All of the connections we had mapped between neurons dropped out.”

Remarkably, when the network drops out, the clock becomes more precise. So the GABAergic network destabilizes the clock; it jiggles it a little.

Herzog points out that the GABAergic network is sparse, weak, and fast (much faster than the VIP network, which relies on the slower action of a neuropeptide), as you might expect a jitter-generator to be.

“We think the GABAergic network is there to let our clocks adjust to environmental cues, such as gradual, seasonal changes in sunrise and sunset,” says Herzog.

the-absolute-best-gifs: every morning

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:54:52 +0800

the-absolute-best-gifs:

every morning

"We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we..."

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:50:34 +0800

““We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there are only a tiny number about whose meaning, sense, and denotation we would have absolutely no doubts, if one day, we were to ask ourselves seriously what they meant. Thus we affirm and deny, thus we convince and are convinced, thus we argue, deduce, and conclude, wandering fearlessly over the surface of concepts about which we only have the vaguest of ideas, and, despite the false air of confidence that we generally affect as we feel our way along the road in verbal darkness, we manage, more or less, to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.””

- José Saramago, The Double (via bookshavepores)

nevver: Popular error

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:06:44 +0800

nevver:

Popular error

"The way we stay motivated is by connecting with our passion. Forming a emotional connection to our..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:05:30 +0800

““The way we stay motivated is by connecting with our passion. Forming a emotional connection to our goals””

- Jillian Michaels (via find-greatness)

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Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:04:11 +0800

vvildsouls: One To Another

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:24:06 +0800

vvildsouls:

One To Another

College in Sweden is free but students still have a ton of debt. How can that be?

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:22:59 +0800

College in Sweden is free but students still have a ton of debt. How can that be?:

Swedish colleges and universities are free. Yep. Totally free. But students there still end up with a lot of debt. The average at the beginning of 2013 was roughly 124,000 Swedish krona ($19,000). Sure, the average US student was carrying about 30% more, at $24,800.

But remember: Free. College in Sweden is free. That’s not even all that common in Europe anymore. While the costs of education are far lower than in the US, over the past two decades sometimes-hefty fees have become a fact of life for many European students. Britain got them in 1998. Some German states instituted them after a federal ban on student fees was overturned in the courts. In fact, since 1995 more than half of the 25 OECD countries with available data on higher education have overhauled their college tuition policies at public institions, with many adding or raising fees.

And yet, students in Germany and the UK have far lower debts than in Sweden. And 85% of Swedish students graduate with debt, versus only 50% in the US. Worst of all, new Swedish graduates have the highest debt-to-income ratios of any group of students in the developed world (according to estimates of what they’re expected to earn once they get out of school)—somewhere in the neighborhood of 80%. The US, where we’re constantly being told that student debt is hitting crisis proportions, the average is more like 60%. Why?

College in Sweden is free. But rent isn’t. And food isn’t. Neither is the beer that fuels the relatively infrequent, yet legendary, binges in which some Swedes partake. Costs of living in Sweden are high, especially in cities such as Stockholm, which regularly ranks among the world’s most expensive places to live. But again, this stuff isn’t free for students in other European countries either. So why do Swedish students end up with more debt? It’s pretty simple, actually. In Sweden, young people are expected to pay for things themselves instead of sponging off their parents.

"Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself...."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:38:39 +0800

“Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

- Haruki Murakami (via awelltraveledwoman)

"Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment,..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:59:13 +0800

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages”

- Angela Davis (via socialjusticewarriorgirl)

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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:30:47 +0800

"The unfed mind devours itself."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:26:21 +0800

“The unfed mind devours itself.”

- Gore Vidal (via littlemiss)

"Sleeping next to someone, not with someone, is perhaps the most intimate you will ever be with..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:26:10 +0800

“Sleeping next to someone,
not with someone, is perhaps
the most intimate you will
ever be with another human.
In sleep, we are completely
defenseless. We are soft
and supple and childlike.
Our hard exteriors falls away
when the sand hits our eyes.
The way you sleep, with your
face softened and your arms
wrapped around my waist,
is the most beautiful thing
I have ever seen. I am not an
artist, but I may become one
just so that I can capture that
moment.”

- I Miss Sleeping Next To You. (via fawun)

According to psychology

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:58:56 +0800

euchilles:

the person you care about the most,
can literally shatter your confidence with their opinions

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Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:44:55 +0800

rainerhowitzer: I’ve always loved this

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:43:25 +0800

rainerhowitzer:

I’ve always loved this