Damiani.guilherme

birdandmoon:

Venomous vs poisonous! The animals are: northern copperhead, cane toad, tiger keelback snake, hooded pitohui, northern short-tailed shrew.

Synchronized waking up. [x]

eressea:

milojoinsthecorps:

gaussmultimedia:

Máster Diseño Gráfico 2012-13. Proyecto personal de Sara Maese incluido en la Entrega Final de Máster: serie de carteles Studio Ghibli-Hayao Miyazaki (1984-2008). Incluye:

1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984).
2. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986).
3. My Neighbor Totoro (1988).
4. Kiki´s Delivery Service (1989).
5. Porco Rosso (1992). 
6. Princess Mononoke (1997).
7. Spirited Away (2001).
8. Howl´s Moving Castle (2004).
9. Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008).

PORCO ROSSO

I need these.

Jo Fitzpatrick‎

UK sculptor Robin Wight creates dramatic scenes of wind-blown fairies clutching dandelions, clinging to trees, and seemingly suspended in midair, all with densely wrapped forms of stainless steel wire. The artist currently has several pieces on view at the Trentham Gardens and sells a number of DIY wire sculpting kits from his website where he also discusses in great detail how each piece is built. See more over on Facebook. (via Reddit).

amaditalks:

There are more of is than anyone would ever be led to believe. Free Palestine!

Dan Ariely and co-authors have an interesting new paper looking at moral behavior, specifially cheating, in people who grew up in either East or West Germany.

From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall divided one nation into two distinct political regimes. We
exploited this natural experiment to investigate whether the socio-political context impacts
individual honesty. Using an abstract die-rolling task, we found evidence that East Germans
who were exposed to socialism cheat more than West Germans who were exposed to
capitalism. We also found that cheating was more likely to occur under circumstances of
plausible deniability.

…If socialism indeed promotes individual dishonesty, the specific features of this socio-political
system that lead to this outcome remain to be determined. The East German socialist regime
differed from the West German capitalist regime in several important ways. First, the system
did not reward work based to merit, and made it difficult to accumulate wealth or pass
anything on to one’s family. This may have resulted in a lack of meaning leading to
demoralization (Ariely et al., 2008), and perhaps less concern for upholding standards of
honesty. Furthermore, while the government claimed to exist in service of the people, it failed
to provide functional public systems or economic security. Observing this moral hypocrisy in government may have eroded the value citizens placed on honesty. Finally, and perhaps most
straightforwardly, the political and economic system pressured people to work around official
laws and cheat to game the system. Over time, individuals may come to normalize these types
of behaviors. Given these distinct possible influences, further research will be needed to
understand which aspects of socialism have the strongest or most lasting impacts on morality.

It’s interesting that Ariely et al. try to explain cheating as a result of socialism. My own approach would look more to the virtue ethics of capitalism and Montesquieu who famously noted that

Commerce is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule, that wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and that wherever there is commerce, there we meet with agreeable manners.

See Al-Ubaydli et al. for a market priming experiment and especially McCloskey on The Bourgeoise Virtues for more work consistent with this theme.

[theonion]

Whew. That one took awhile. Hope ya like it!

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• El famoso portal de pornografía, YouPorn, está interesado en patrocinar un equipo de LoL, Dota 2 o HS.
• A través de Twitter, la compañía ha pedido feedback a los usuarios desatando la euforia en Twitter y Reddit.

Un tuit de @YouPorn, la cuenta oficial del portal pornográfico libre YouPorn, en el que sugiere el patrocinio de un equipo de eSports, ha desatado la euforia en las redes sociales y Reddit. La capacidad económica de YouPorn es bestial, pero, ¿aceptarán equipos y resto de sponsors?

El tuit en cuestión es éste, donde se pide feedback sobre la posibilidad de patrocinar un equipo de Dota 2, LoL o incluso jugadores de HearthStone:

Do we have any competitive LoL, DOTA2, or HeartStone players following us? What do you think about YouPorn sponsoring a team?

— YouPorn (Jude) (@YouPorn) July 10, 2014

Personalmente y, aunque no tenga nada en contra de la industria pornográfica, ni de la libre actividad publicitaria de cualquiera, pienso que es una mala idea. Si nos tomamos los eSports como un deporte más junto al fútbol y baloncesto, deberíamos ser realistas y Redbull, Coca-Cola, Intel, Razer... no van a querer compartir camiseta con un portal de vídeos pornográficos, ni creo que Valve aceptase que una gran comunidad de menores de edad que juegan a Dota tengan que ver publicidad pornográfica. Ya veremos en qué queda la cosa.

[endlessorigami]

Something a bit different to tide me over until I get back from Iceland.
You can grab a printable blank card template sheet here.

Edit: Separate template for utility cards now available as per request. Note that utility cards can be made with the previous template by leaving the attack/defense entries blank.

The post Drunken Warriors appeared first on Happy Jar.

[poorlydrawnlines]

El jardín de las palabras 言の葉の庭, es una de las últimas películas dirigidas por Makoto Shinkai. Para mi gusto las películas de Makoto son demasiado románticas y lentorras, ninguna me ha terminado de gustar excepto Cinco centímetros por segundo (秒速５センチメートル).

Lo que sí que me fascina de sus películas es la faceta artística, los escenarios de animación suelen estar basados en lugares reales de Japón. A veces el arte es tan bueno que es difícil de diferenciar de la realidad. Estas son algunas capturas de El jardín de las palabras comparándolas con fotos de los lugares reales. Toda la acción de la película se desarrolla cerca o dentro del parque Shinjuku Gyoen.

Fuente de las fotos imgur.

4gifs:

This kid shreds. [video]

noelanthony:

My first instinct when I see an animal is to say “hello”.

My first instinct when I see a person is to avoid eye contact and hope it goes away.