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postarcadenp: Adventure Time to receive sequel and Regular Show...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:52:40 -0400

postarcadenp:

Adventure Time to receive sequel and Regular Show get its first game

By Matthew O’Mara

http://bit.ly/19oRgWb

Yeeessssssss

theartofanimation: Archan Nair

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:35:26 -0400

theartofanimation:

Archan Nair

nationalpost: The three biggest solar flares of the year all...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:33:33 -0400

nationalpost:

The three biggest solar flares of the year all happened in a 24-hour period yesterday
When the sun fired off a massive flare late on Sunday, it was the strongest solar eruption this year. That was until another, even stronger flare followed it a few hours later. Soon a third flare, almost twice as powerful as the first blasted out of the sun.

“The [third flare] was also associated with a coronal mass ejection, or CME. The CME began at 9:30 p.m. EDT and was not Earth-directed. Experimental NASA research models show that the CME left the sun at approximately 1,400 miles per second, which is particularly fast for a CME. The models suggest that it will catch up to the two CMEs associated with the earlier flares,” NASA said on it’s website.

Solar flares are graded as A, B, C, M or X with each category being ten times more powerful than the one before it. The flares in the past day were all “X” flares, the first ones of 2013.

“‘X-class’ denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. (NASA/SDO/AIA)

Is this why I felt like shit on toast last night? DAM U SUNZ!

npostlife: Got lower back pain? The cause could be bacteria,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 05:18:12 -0400

npostlife:

Got lower back pain? The cause could be bacteria, and the cure could be familiar
Antibiotics have been used successfully by a Danish researcher working with more than 150 patients suffering from chronic lower back pain. Click through to hear how it works.
[Photo credit: Handout]

100 days of antibiotics??!! Whoa.

laughingsquid: Nicholas Carr on What the Internet is Doing to...

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:56:43 -0400

laughingsquid:

Nicholas Carr on What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

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Wed, 08 May 2013 09:46:19 -0400

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centuriespast: Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by Masury &...

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:44:03 -0400

centuriespast:

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by Masury & Hartshorn, [Providence, Rhode Island, November 1848]
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Image: 2 11/16 x 1 15/16 inches (73 x 48 mm)
This is one of five extant daguerreotypes of the so-called Ultima Thule image of Poe, taken the year before his death.

The Morgan Library

ashlandrenee: therothwoman: itscarororo: my favorite part...

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:42:26 -0400

ashlandrenee:

therothwoman:

itscarororo:

my favorite part about working with the birds of prey at the museum I interned at was when the vet would come in and wrap them up in to burritos to weigh them and clip their talons

birdrritos

That eagle looks 1776% done.

1776%

Photo

Thu, 02 May 2013 07:09:53 -0400

hedgehoglike: This post is some personal observations I have...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:51:43 -0400

hedgehoglike:

This post is some personal observations I have made about people’s perceptions of The Autism Spectrum. When I refer to “people”, I don’t mean “all people”, I just mean the people I’ve encountered personally, whether in real life or talking to online.

When people first learn about autism, it’s because their new friend [be it a real person or a fictional character] has been described as “having autism”. These people, not really understanding what autism is yet, look at their friend’s characteristics and decide that all the traits they have are autism - that’s what autism is, it’s being like Sherlock, Abed Nadir, Einstein, that quiet kid in class, your friend’s nonverbal son. The stereotypes can be nice (look at all the aspergers characters in film, books and television, which paint most of them as eccentric, bad with people, but nevertheless geniuses) or they can be bad (like “Autism moms” complaining how difficult it is for THEM to raise their child… or Louis Theroux’ documentaries painting a bleak portrait of autism “sufferers”).

At this stage, the person learning about autism usually seems to think of it as a binary state… like a lightswitch. They’ll tell you you either HAVE AUTISM and are therefore exactly like the stereotype they’ve created (lights on) or you DON’T HAVE AUTISM because you’re not exactly like that stereotype (lights off).

If they’ve read up a little more, they might have seen the word “spectrum”. Now they have a more generalized view of autism. But they get the idea of “spectrum” wrong - they see it as a linear thing: a number-line, a scale, a dimmer switch or volume control, from Zero to Autistic — or from “low-functioning” to “high-functioning”. At that point they say silly things like “You’re very high-functioning!” or “No, but I mean like, the really really autistic kids, who, like, can’t do anything because they can’t talk”. They invent this linear relationship between a person’s verboseness and “how autistic they are”.

A lot of people seem to get stuck at this point, so I think the word “spectrum” requires some explanation.

When I see the word “spectrum” I immediately imagine a rainbow, or light being split from a prism. I’m sure most people do. And sure, the spectrum of colours is derived from the electromagnetic spectrum - we get different colours at different wavelengths - it’s a continuous range.

BUT- where does white light come from? White light is a combination of all those different wavelengths. You can create new colours by mixing different colours together. You can make colours brighter by adding a little bit of the other colours. You can mix the wavelengths together at different intensities. There’s a lot of ways of combining colours.

Which essentially what the autism spectrum REALLY is. Which is why labels like “high functioning” and “severely autistic” are dumb labels. Just because one autie excels at public speaking doesn’t make them unanimously “high functioning”. Conversely, I know of nonverbal auties who are masters of writing. To tell someone with a vibrant imagination, intense emotions, passionate interests and brilliant intellect that they’re “low-functioning” because they don’t vocalize their thoughts out loud is a massive insult. To refuse someone’s pleas of help because they’re “too high functioning” is also a shitty thing to do (I’m looking at you, ATOS).

There’s lots of ways in which we function, some of which are interdependent, others independent, and the levels vary wildly between autistic people, and they also vary wildly in non-autistic people too:

- Long-term memory

- Short-term memory

- Socializing

- Physical awareness

- Spatial awareness

- Vocal ability

- Verbal reasoning / ability to understand instructions

- Linguistic skills

- Mathematical and logical skills

- Executive function / Planning

- Ability to filter information

- Processing speed of sensory input

- Ability to focus / attention span

- Emotional self-awareness

[These might not be the exact distinct cognitive ‘functions’ as according to all the sciencey literature, this was verbatim]

I see my functions as a bar chart. In the version I drew it’s a prism splitting white light into the whole spectrum, but the different colours fade out at different places (and it’s a homage to Pink Floyd :p). That bar chart can vary throughout the day, be markedly different on different days, and is always changing over time.

In times of anxiety all the functionality unanimously drains out of me. In a nice chilled out environment it all comes trickling back.

When I’m in the zone doing something I enjoy, some of those rays of colour will be shooting off the image :D

(Note how there’s no lines on the image denoting the “average person“‘s ability towards a particular function, because this shit is nigh on impossible to quantify person-to-person. All you can do is compare yourself to yourself)

I think that’s more accurate than “low functioning” vs “high functioning” ??????????

tastefullyoffensive: [inthebleachers]

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:43:50 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

[inthebleachers]

Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:12:45 -0400

Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)

“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”

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Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:09:51 -0400

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thatsonofamitch: turbotwopointoh: skrilladex: anonymous is...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:06:51 -0400

thatsonofamitch:

turbotwopointoh:

skrilladex:

anonymous is calling for an internet blackout on april 22nd in protest of CISPA, one that i will be joining. they are trying to convince major websites to shut down for 24 hours.

when we all blacked out for SOPA, it seemed to make a point. we can make a point again.

lets get #CISPAblackout trending on twitter and get the word around!

((Guys, I know I’ve been posting a lot of CISPA stuff but we seriously need to shut down this bill. Otherwise, the Internet as we know it will cease to exist.))

sounds good to me, lets get this around guys

I’m in.

"I thought he was white. Like a regular American."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:05:36 -0400

youngbadmanbrown:

CNN is really revealing a lot about this country this week

tastefullyoffensive: [via] Painter powa!

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:37:28 -0400

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Painter powa!

totalfilm: Epic new Man Of Steel trailer: watch now Man Of...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:46:20 -0400

totalfilm:

Epic new Man Of Steel trailer: watch now

Man Of Steel has released a brand new trailer online, and it may just be the most epic couple of minutes you’ll see this year! Until the film itself flies into cinemas, that is…

Action! Adventure! HENRY CAVILL!

rookiemag: midcenturymodernfreak: April 04, 1954 Sophia Loren...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:52:04 -0400

rookiemag:

midcenturymodernfreak:

April 04, 1954 Sophia Loren poses for a portrait during the Rally III of Cinema, in Rome.

Via

you don’t have to shave to be a goddess

-naomi (thanks danielle!)

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:39:16 -0400

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:26:24 -0400

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