February 2010
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a...”
– Douglas Adams
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WatchAnother video from Idea Wild, a nonprofit right here in Fort Collins that does some amazing work. This is just an example of the kind of projects they support.
hellyeahbiodiversity:
Another video! This is great, we got two videos in a day from projects we support. Check out “Javan Gibbon, Story from Petungkriyona Forest.”
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WatchThis is from one of the nonprofits I work with in Fort Collins. This is the kind of work they support.
hellyeahbiodiversity:
This short video is on conservation work we are supporting in Columbia. Check out these gorgeous Cotton-Tops!
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What Health Supplements Are B.S.? [infographic]
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If TV Science Were More Like Real Science [comic]
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“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman...”
– Mark Twain (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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poetbabble:
Let that be the poetry we search for: worn with the hand’s obligations, as by acids, steeped in sweat and in smoke, smelling of lilies and urine, spattered diversely by the trades that we live by, inside the law or beyond it. -Pablo Neruda
Do it with 51 votes
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The 60-vote requirement for healthcare is made up. 51 is a majority, and it’s all we need.
By Robert Reich
“We similarly self-deceive today to give ourselves higher and stronger excuses to...”
– Overcoming Bias : Mysticism’s Function
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“The United States currently has troops in 140 countries around the world. We are...”
– Ron Paul at CPAC Exposes the Incoherence of the Modern Republican Party (via ryking)
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“Do you hear the snow against the window panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it...”
– Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll (via huna)
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“Nothing is stranger, more delicate, than the relationship between people who...”
– death in venice, by thomas mann (via foreigntongue)
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“Now, whatever is this red water, boss, just tell me! And old stock grows...”
– Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
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NASA Scientists Plan To Approach Girl By 2018
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they...
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“But the Catherine Wheel shook her head. ‘Romance is dead, Romance is dead,...”
– Oscar Wilde - The Remarkable Rocket (via emptythreatsoflittlelord) (via libraryland)
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Countless Lives Inhabit Us
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Countless lives inhabit us. I don’t know, when I think or feel, Who it is that thinks or feels. I am merely the place Where things are thought or felt.
I have more than just one soul. There are more I’s than I myself. I exist, nevertheless, Indifferent to them all. I silence them: I speak.
The crossing urges of what I feel or do not feel Struggle in who I am, but...
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What are our values? If truth and happiness...
(Back to JSM’s comment about preferring to be Socrates miserable than a happy pig)
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“When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit. (via shynessisnice) (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via heavenlybutterfly)
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“You have power over your mind - not outside...
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heavenlybutterfly:
~ Marcus Aurelius
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“The truth is you already know what [dying]’s like. You already know the...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Good Old Neon,” Oblivion. (via incandenza)
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New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who...
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Detention Notice (Totally Worth It) [pic]
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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
– David Foster Wallace
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THIS is why you're an idiot [pic]
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“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something...”
– Aristophanes (via teazersavage) (via hedonics)
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“The usual way to describe such inconsistent demands from voters is to say that...”
– Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
“Sixty percent of Americans want stricter regulations of financial institutions....”
– Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not... →
You have to admit, this is at least partly true.
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“It was life…and it was a dream, a dream within this life; and this life too is a...”
– H.G. Wells, The Dream (via touba) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about…. Say yes...”
– Rumi
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“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
– Oscar Wilde