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the-bebop:

Best Cosplay I’ve ever seen.

Super green.

A Funny or Die sketch, probably in partnership with Rick Santorum's Christian film company, presents "World War G," a parody of Brad Pitt's zombie apocalypse movie in which a lone crusader fights against the proliferation of homosexuals as a result of the SCOTUS ruling against DOMA.

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It's sometimes hard to know the difference between a legitimate state interest in regulating something, and a pernicious scheme to use regulation just to drive people out of business. Lately, various kinds of safety regulations for clinics that provide abortion services have been in the news. Generally speaking, the people pressing for tighter regulation of clinics coincidentally also believe that in an ideal world all abortions should be illegal.

And if you're interested in the subject of how much people care about the health of pregnant women, you might be interested to know that in the United States at least having an abortion is much safer than having a baby:

OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety of abortion compared with childbirth.

METHODS: We estimated mortality rates associated with live births and legal induced abortions in the United States in 1998-2005. We used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, birth certificates, and Guttmacher Institute surveys. In addition, we searched for population-based data comparing the morbidity of abortion and childbirth.

RESULTS: The pregnancy-associated mortality rate among women who delivered live neonates was 8.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. The mortality rate related to induced abortion was 0.6 deaths per 100,000 abortions. In the one recent comparative study of pregnancy morbidity in the United States, pregnancy-related complications were more common with childbirth than with abortion.

CONCLUSION: Legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth. The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion. Similarly, the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion.

So if you're concerned about health outcomes, you might want to spend less time investing in stricter regulation of abortion clinics and more time investing in health care facilities for pregnant women and newborns. Apparently we're still not doing a very good job of delivering babies safely in this country.

Instagramming the World from Above with @rccam

Stanislav Sedov (@rccam) of Moscow is one member of AirPano, a group of Russian photographers who create high-resolution, 360-degree aerial panoramas of the most interesting places on Earth. Stanislav shares some of those sky-high photographs from all around the world on Instagram.

"I travel a lot and I capture different interesting places around the world from air, usually from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)," he says. “I have been posting those photos on Instagram since last year. My friend Dmitriy (@chistoprudov) showed me it as a way to post photos really quickly and I really like it," he says.

To see more bird’s-eye view photos from around the world, be sure to follow @rccam on Instagram.

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Leon, by Phil Noto.

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jensensations:

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal (x)

I am legitimately crying.

And the 2013 award for Greatest Idea of the Year goes to this. Seriously, I don’t care if its May, close the voting, its all downhill from here.

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Faye straight up dropped that carafe on the floor between panels 1 and 2.

Also, now you know where Penelope and Cosette have been all this time. Just to the right.

Want to pretend you’re Spiderman but can’t afford the suit and the genetic mutation? Argentine artist Leandro Erlich was commissioned by the Barbican in London to install a version of his wildly popular optical illusion that creates the visual effect of instant weightlessness. Using a wall of giant mirrors propped against a huge horizontal print of a Victorian terraced house, visitors are free to climb and jump around as their reflections appear to move freely without the pesky effects of gravity. Titled Dalston House the piece was erected in Hackney just off Dalston Junction on a disused lot that has remained vacant since it was bombed during the Second World War.

The installation opens today and is free to all visitors and will remain up through August 4th. Erlich will also be giving a talk tomorrow starting at 7:30pm. All images courtesy the Barbican. (via visual news)

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Moeraki Boulders on the Beach #moeraki #beach #boulders #newzealand #ocean #water #rocks #trip #travels #worldtour #2009 #amazing #huge #sand These boulders are about four feet across! #massive