Russian Sledges

goodbyemisery:

i went into a whole foods and got to hear a woman arguing with a guy at the meat counter because she wanted grass fed organic chicken and he was desperately trying to explain to her that chickens don’t eat grass

chibiwing:

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thegingerpointofview:

kaitrokowski:

“Steve Carell, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: How men would look if they had to pose in ads the way women are expected to.”

Yeah this definitely deserves a place on my blog

im so glad I woke up this morining

These guys

pyranova:

komradesparx:

afrosomalibitch:

Random posters have been popping up on London bus-stops speaking the truth about our fucked up police forces. Lmao @ the police officer calling it in (3rd picture), the truth hurts!

(The riots mentioned are the London riots of August 2011 which happened after the police shot dead, Mark Duggan, an unarmed black man in Tottenham. The shooting was later ruled to be ‘lawful’ hence how they ‘got away with it’.)

Remember Police Brutality is truly global.

Anti-Black and racism are truly global.

kane52630:

"Why are you dressed up like Batman?" - Max Shreck

Batman Returns

everybody forgets the time Walken was in a Batman movie

And may be mass murder, according to a heavily footnoted editorial in the British Medical Journal.

So the more you drink—up to two drinks a day for woman, and four for men—the less likely you are to die. You may have heard that before, and you may have heard it doubted. But the consensus of the science is overwhelming: It is true.

otters are hard workers

Everyone thinks that Mexican wrestling is a game—it’s all fake, no blood.

But just imagine yourself in the middle of a ring, being body-slammed by a person who weighs almost 100 kilos. You would almost certainly end up crushed, if not dead.

To avoid that fate, luchadores have to practice. And of course, they need to eat properly, too.

In Mexico, wrestlers are elevated to an almost mythic level, but when it comes to food, they’re still human. You might imagine them eating tacos, enchiladas, and burritos, but they do their best to resist temptation and maintain discipline. To be a wrestler in Mexico is a way of life; and in order to not die trying, your diet must remain on point.

None of the wrestlers featured in this article ever revealed their face to me, and I do not know their real names. Their masks are crucial elements of their strength and the myth-making process of the lucha libre itself, which certainly derives from a Latin American sense of magical realism.

Despite its important role in Mexican society, lucha libre is still a subculture and considered something a marginalized sport. But almost all the skeptics change their minds when they see the blood and hear the sounds of the punches.

When the luchadores leave the rings, however, they become just mortals. They might sit next to you on the subway or in the cinema, and you will never know who they are.

The Son of Doctor Murderer

The son of “Doctor Murderer”—one of the most popular Mexican Wrestlers—became a fighter himself when he was 15 years old. (Since 2009, he’s called himself “The Son of Doctor Murderer.”) “Wrestling is everything,” he tells me. “It has given me wisdom, it made me disciplined, and it continues to make me a better person every day.”

“Before going to the gym I have to eat fried egg whites,” he says. “It’s the perfect food. Before a fight, I have a protein shake because it is lighter. Otherwise, I throw up.”

The Son of Doctor Murderer’s breakfast: Fried egg whites, salt, and cheese; turkey ham; two slices of bread; chili; vanilla protein shake.

 

Sexy Powder

Sexy Powder is 25 years old and has been fighting for four years. Her most important piece of advice is to not go crazy with portions sizes, and to get into the habit of eating well. 

“We have to eat vegetables. They´re the basic ingredient to keep in your diet,” Sexy Powder tells me. “I have a diet therapy juice and it’s going very well. I eat five meals a day: breakfast; mid-morning I have a salad and a smoothie; then I have my lunch, which includes protein, like chicken or tuna, and smoothies of different fruits and vegetables. Then I make a small snack, where I make a shake of citrus fruits. And for dinner I try to eat tuna.”

Her pro tip: “Before fight I try to eat dark chocolate, which is a very good antioxidant and gives me energy. “

Sexy Powder’s mid-morning meal: salad of lettuce with apple and unsalted cheese; spinach smoothie with apple and banana.

 

Solar

A living legend, Solar has been wrestling professionally for more than 40 years. He won´t reveal his true age, but his wife, who keeps an eye on everything that goes on in the kitchen, says with a smile, “He’s about 60.” 

“Every week I get into the ring, but I’m at a point where I’m wondering if I’m already reaching the end of my career,” Solar tells me. “But I try not to think much about it. Wrestling is too important to me.”

“When I started, nobody told me how to feed myself and I did it my way,” he adds. “At night, I drank a liter of milk and ate a kilo of bananas. Now I eat a lot of fish, chicken, rice, and pasta. At my age, if I do not care what I eat, I will be lost as a wrestler.”

Solar’s lunch: Surimi salad with lettuce, pasta, sunflower seeds, and blueberries; grilled chicken breast; an apple.

Additional translation and reporting by Jess Winteringham

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To prevent her from removing the feeding tube, Wasabi-chan's rescuer outfitted her in crocheted costumes (or a "Purrito," as one Redditor described it) that limited her movement.

Johnny Cash and Fluffers The Cat wishing us all glory in the new year. 

Bestselling author spurns country’s highest distinction on grounds that government should not decide who is honourable

French economist Thomas Piketty has spurned the Legion of Honour, the country’s highest distinction, on the grounds that the government should not decide who is honourable.

Piketty, author of the bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which has become compulsory reading for world leaders, added: “They’d be better off concentrating on boosting growth in France and Europe.”

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vgjunk:

Typing of the Dead, PC.

​If you care at all where technology is taking us, you should be watching "Black Mirror." As many have already pointed out, the series strikes a chord not only because it’s unsettling, but also because it’s recognizable.

Last month, a school in Michigan temporarily closed as whooping cough began spreading among the 1,200 students. It's the latest example of the public health risks caused by low vaccination rates — a growing national problem made worse by anti-vaxxer parents who are able to get help from sympathetic pediatricians.

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In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins owns a sword named Sting. This magic sword glows in the presence of Orcs or goblins. Pictured above is a modern version: the WarSting. It glows when it detects unsecured WiFi networks.

(Image: Warner Bros.)

Spark IO built it into the body of a toy model of Sting. It's an educational tool designed to encourage people to encrypt their WiFi networks. Krista Peryer of Make writes:

And when you slash WarSting through the air near a unsecured Wi-Fi network, WarSting jumps on that network and publishes a message: “{YOUR WI-FI NETWORK} has been vanquished!”

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He offered people a way to buy cheaper flights. These companies want to shut him down.

 
From the Manila Bulletin comes the headline of the holidays:

“MILF invites Pope.”

To do what you may ask? But this MILF is the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which makes them the MILF. Perhaps it’s time for a name change?
 
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“Why do 18th century English paintings have so many squirrels in them, and how did they tame them so that they wouldn’t bite the painter?” It’s easy to find answers to such perplexing questions today. A quick Google search explains that squirrels were once desirable pets, and that domesticating them could be achieved in six simple steps.

But in 1976, when the question was first posed to a librarian at the New York Public Library (NYPL), the internet hadn’t yet made everything ridiculously easy. Unable to answer the query, the bemused librarian who received it typed it onto a reference card and filed it away.

Recently, a staff member found the recipe box (labeled “Interesting Reference Questions”) containing it and hundreds others asked between the 1940s and 1980s while cleaning out a desk. NYPL has since been posting pictures of its contents to Twitter and Instagram under the hashtag #LetMeLibrarianThatForYou.

“People came to the library for reference, but also for info on buying and selling, looking for inspiration, crafty project ideas, and even to find photos,” it wrote. “In a world pre-Google, librarians weren’t just Wikipedia, they were people’s Craiglist, Pinterest, Etsy, and Instagram all rolled into one.”

The library told Gothamist that while it always tries to answer such inquiries right away, the ones in the box were likely those for which it didn’t have an immediate response. Some are amusing (“Is it possible to keep an octopus in a private home?”), while others are heartbreaking (“Is it proper to go to Reno alone to get a divorce?”). Seen together, they’re a testament to what might be one of humankind’s greatest attributes — our unquenchable curiosity.

Please consider supporting this fascinating project on Kickstarter to explore and document the acoustic properties of Woo Hon Fai Hall, seen above, the soon-to-be-abandoned home of the Berkeley Art Museum completed in 1970 to a design by Mario Ciampi and others. The Kickstarter project’s instigators, Jacqueline Gordon and Zackery Belanger, are offering some interesting rewards in return, including tickets to a live performance for those who may live in the Bay Area. 

St. Mary’s Cathedral, Mejiro, Tokyo, Japan, 1964

(Kenzo Tange)

Andy Bodle, "Sub ire as hacks slash word length: getting the skinny on thinnernyms", The Guardian 12/4/2014 ("Headlinese is a useful little language – but it shouldn’t creep into the rest of the story. If front pages baffle you, read on for my jargon-busting thinnernymicon"):

A stranger arriving in this land, English diploma clutched tightly, might be forgiven, on catching sight of a newspaper stand, for throwing up her hands and turning homewards. “Kendra hubby’s rage at ‘sex pest’ Jake”. “Panic room bed tax victim taken to court”. “Ox aye the Roo!”

The orthography is recognisably English, but the order is all wrong; the tenses work differently, and some of the words – well, they’re in the dictionary, but that’s about the only place you’ll find them. This is because headlines don’t use English at all, but a language all their own.

Bodle provides a syntactic sketch, covering points such as:

• Articles and possessive pronouns are practically nonexistent
• All forms of the verb “to be” are similarly superfluous
• The past tense is replaced by the more concise present simple
• The future tense, meanwhile, is rendered by the infinitive
• Noun modifiers are rampant
• Prepositions are often coopted to do the work of verbs

And he ends with "The Thinnernymicon", with entries like

Dub = describe as, label, nickname
Eye = consider, contemplate
Face = is in line for; faces the prospect of; must prepare for; is threatened with

For some amusing examples of the results, see the posts archived under our "crash blossoms" category — and John McIntyre's original crash blossom post.

Back in April, I blogged about a paper published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (JNMD) claiming that a little-known technique called ‘quantum resonance spectrometry’ (QRS) was able to diagnose mental health problems. I expressed surprise that the paper didn't explain what QRS actually is, how it works, or what it measures. Now, eight months later, a Letter to the Editor has been published in the JNMD: Methodological Queries Regarding "Exploratory Quantum Resonance Spectr

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg were recently sentenced to prison in a trial that was deliberately sped up in order to prevent protesting. In response, Pussy Riot has shared the video for "Witches of Pussy Riot Clean Manezhka", a clip that features group members cleaning Manezhka Square in downtown Moscow, the location of protests taking place tonight. Watch the video below.

Read our interview with Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina here.

Well, this is rather cool. Artist Serafín Álvarez's ongoing project "Case Study: Sci-Fi Corridor" takes a close look at corridors from science fiction movies, including blockbusters like Gravity and Independence Day, classics like The Day the Earth Stood Still and Metropolis,and cult classics like Lifeforce and Starcrash.

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