I think I want to start my herb garden again… even though I have failed miserably in the past, darn brown thumb…
Stuff like this is so fascinating. I always wonder who first came up with the idea to have basil with tomatoes, or mix cilantro and lime, or drink ginger tea. And somehow people figured out that these herbs and food combinations did things to their bodies and somehow magically healed them and now using SCIENCE we finally know how.
I dunno I just think food is great.
(Source: dancequeen1284)
Just finished a research paper on the “third gender” or hijra of South Asia.
LGBTQ* Intersex Documentaries You Should Keep On Your Radar
INTERSEXION
(Following text from the documentary’s website:)
The first question any new parent asks… “Is it a boy or a girl?”
What if it’s neither?1 in 2,000 babies is born with genitalia so ambiguous that the doctors cannot easily answer this question.
In this groundbreaking documentary, intersex individuals reveal the secrets of their unconventional lives – and how they have navigated their way through this strictly male/female world, when they fit somewhere in between.
new obsession with becoming an animal behaviorist.
(via Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals | Video on TED.com)
The latest episode of PBS’s excellent Off Book series explores LEGO art. Previous episodes have explored typography, product design, art in the age of the internet, book art and papercraft, generative art, the explosion of animated GIFs, and the art of film and TV title design.
Also see The Cult of LEGO.
According to Grist, when “elephant whisperer” Lawrence Anthony died in March, two herds of his elephant friends came to his house to stand vigil:
Anthony had spent time living with the elephants, in order to care for traumatized animals who were considered violent and unruly. But at the time of his death, of a heart attack, Anthony was living in a house on the Thula Thula game reserve in South Africa. The park’s elephants hadn’t visited the house in a year and a half, but Anthony’s son Dylan says that the herds traveled 12 hours to arrive shortly after his father’s death.
Read more on Grist. Or just cry and wish you knew some eles. That’s my plan.
Nikola Tesla was always right all the time.
Tesla on vegetarianism
He also starred in a fucking hilarious episode of drunk history.
^Fun fact
Funner fact: My mom owns several of these, and no mustache that I’ve been able to detect.
Gosh darned Babeland.
The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict - 1977 45rpm (by RoxyVortex)
Maurice is a child of the Great Depression and of Jewish Depression, if I may generalise. Jewish Depression is that inherited awareness of the arduousness of knowing God, the arduousness of knowing anything, an acute awareness of the struggle to know, the struggle against not knowing; and it is that enduring sense of displacement, yearning for and not securely possessing a home. Maurice’s is a Yiddische kopf, a large, brooding, circumspect and contemplative mind, darkened by both fatalism and faith.
Playwright Tony Kushner on beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak, who passed away this week at the age of 83.
Also see Sendak’s final interview, with none other than Colbert, and his unreleased drawings.
(via explore-blog)
From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (via chirart)
There are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
This statement is so true and that’s why I hate, among other things, how men supposedly “celebrate” (or whatever it is they do) women’s day, by idolizing women, thanking for our existence in their lives. I’m not here to make your life better, I’m to live it however the fuck I want to.
(via anotherfeminist)
^^^THIS.
(via escapistinwonderland)
(Source: cracked.com)
I want this costume.
Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth. Yes.
RIP the wonderful Maurice Sendak
We’ll miss you.
