February 2012
33 posts
“There is no one torturing you except yourself. There is nobody except yourself;...”
– Osho
(via nirvikalpa)
“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but...”
– Lillian Hellman (via funeral)
“…under George W. Bush, the price of gasoline increased from $1.60 per gallon...”
– GOP Deceptions About Gas Prices (via azspot)
The biggest photo of the night sky ever taken –... →
“The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.”
– Teilhard de Chardin (via thislivingthisliving)
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether...”
– — Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Non-Violence in Peace and War, Vol. 1, Ch. 142
(via thinksquad)
jtotheizzoe:
Today in “Bringing Stuff Back From the Dead” Science News:
Ancient yeast found Incan tomb resurrected, scientists immediately use it to make booze: An Incan tomb was discovered in Quito, Ecuador in the 1980’s that housed more than a dozen well-adorned Incan corpses. They were surrounded by food and drink offerings in large clay urns, similar to more familiar Egyptian customs,...
“Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via metaconscious)
“Americans today probably belong to the first generation on earth that looks at a...”
– Lauren Slater, Welcome to My Country (via psychotherapy)
“If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called...”
– Ymber Delecto (via nirvikalpa, happyfitness) (via laplumeabelle)
January 2012
104 posts
“I was blessed with the inability to grow up and adapt to this society.”
– Craig Junjulas
(via cultureofresistance)
Scientists find that "English is an overwhelmingly... →
kateoplis:
From The Atlantic:
To verify their findings and check if English is inherently positive or negative, the scientists analyzed billions of words from Twitter, a half-century of music lyrics, 20 years of The New York Times, and millions of books going back to 1520.
After finding the 10,222 most frequently used English words from these four sources, they asked a group of volunteers to...
“Meet everyone and everything through stillness rather than mental noise.”
– Eckhart Tolle (via whimsicalele)