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mapsontheweb:

Map of Washington D.C. in 1815.

maptitude1:

This gif show the expansion of the city of Paris from 300 A.D to 1850 A.D.

I’ve been in bed resting after my testing but I’m slowly starting to regain my strength.

The doctor has confirmed that I have a neuropathy called dysautonomia. Basically my autonomic nervous system doesn’t work correctly. It affects the nerves that carry information from the brain and spinal cord to the heart, bladder, intestines, sweat glands, pupils, and blood vessels. 

Reading through the list of symptoms was like a wake up call. Over the years I’ve been diagnosed with so many different things…chronic fatigue, migraines, insomnia…and treatments never helped. It wasn’t until a neurologist who specialized in these kinds of disorders looked at me that I finally got an answer….and not just an answer, but an answer that makes sense. They were all connected. They were all symptoms. 

Every dysautonomia patient is different, so many people can live their whole lives without a correct diagnosis. Luckily my cardiologist had a suspicion that my POTS was caused by something bigger and referred me to this neurologist. 

Unfortunately it’s genetic, and chronic, so I’m going to have to learn to manage my symptoms for the rest of my life. I’m on medication to help stabilize my heart condition, but there’s not many treatment options for my brain just not working correctly. 

But it shouldn’t stop me from following my special effects dreams, which is something I’ve spent the months leading up to my appointment worrying about. I thought that it meant I was never going to be well enough to be able to have a more physical career, like working in a special effects shop, or on a movie set. But I just need to be careful.

I’ll never be symptom free, and I’ll never be normal, but if I learn to listen to my symptoms, take breaks when I get tired, take my medication, lie down when I feel dizzy, and never ever attempt to run a triathlon, there’s nothing that’s gonna stop me. I might just need a nap inbetween. 

We've seen the iconic opening credits of Game of Thrones remade countless times over the past several years, but none have been as awe-inspiring as this, the "Man Eating Soup" version. Spoilers: It's tomato.

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meme4u:

wtf bro?

communismkills:

trueemergence:

omg damn

IS THIS REAL.

A Yale historian wants us to rethink the terrible tales about the Norse.

cisyphus:

Steal His Look: Sad Frog

Premium Latex Frog Mask - $89

Burberry Designer Tee - $175

Guerlain’s KissKiss Gold Lipstick - $62,000 

anus2anus:

Steal Her Look: Silver Tree Nursery Monkey

Elastic Bow Headband from Etsy - $1

Microfleece Zip Up and Play Pajama from Carter’s - $10

21” Artificial Daisy in White with a 4” Flower from Afloral - $14

fagmobs:

Steal Her Look: Cool Dog

Unreal Fur Wanderlust Coat - $323

Piers Atkinson Couture Snapback - $615

Bentley Motors Eye-ware - Price Upon Request

animal40:

contemporary art 

sageoftenpaths:

B. Y. E

i cannot

hi saucieshares

wormwoman:

thenightlymirror paisleyasfuck

datarep:

Average Number Of Drinks Per Capita Consumed In The Past Week

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jasonlatour:

words-in-pics:

Edge of Spider-Verse #2 – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (Marvel Comics)

Originally, I was going to just take a picture of the words ‘Previously in Spider-Woman’ and leave it at that. Because they’re potent words, more potent than they should have to be.

I love the way ‘Previously in…’ implies not only an alternate universe where Gwen Stacy is Spider-Woman – and where, based on the Times Square billboards just visible in the bottom left, superheroines like The Wasp and Dazzler are the A-list – but also one where Gwen Stacy: Spider-Woman has been a best-selling comic for decades.

It’s great that with one isolate issue to tell Gwen’s story, Latour doesn’t default to an origin – beyond this almost-All-Star-Superman-level compressed spread, at least – but delivers just another installment in her ongoing narrative, with a costume design from Rodriguez that only loosely quotes the ‘original’ Spider-Man’s duds.

And I was going to leave it at that, but then there’s the Peter thing. Naturally, the gender swap puts him in the role of hero-motivating fridge stuffing instead of Gwen, but also… let’s borrow from Tom Ewing here, who made a really smart point back in April that leapt to mind the moment I saw these pages:

"We are now in a position where we also know what bright, nerdy, badly socialised young men who feel they haven’t had any lucky breaks in life can think and act like, because vast chunks of web culture is a monument to that. Especially now, with so many dudes using the comfort blanket of ‘nice guy’/’beta male’ or whatever status as an excuse and cover story for all sorts of inhuman and revolting bullshit. Spider-Man is the perfect, iconic, character to critique that, but I can hardly think of any examples of it."

Raise your longboxes to the sky, because here at last we have a prime example.

Humiliated by bullying – and at least partly, the story seems to suggest, by having to be protected by Gwen – he injects himself with a batch of what turns out to be Lizard serum, muttering “I’ll show them who’s pathetic”, and effectively stuffing himself in the fridge in the process.

On a textual level, it’s a tragedy. On a meta one, it’s a perfectly enactment of the nerd entitlement that the internet is rife with at the moment: Discovering that he’s not the hero of the book, Peter’s only choice as the single white male cast member of an audience-relatable age is to make himself the villain.

I don’t like to lean on authorial intent too much but, um, there might be a subtext there?

Hmmmmmmm…. 

geekgirlsmash:

What do astronauts and cosmonauts, a towel and a paranoid android have in common?

The answer is 42.

The International Space Station’s Expedition 42 crew, who is set to take up residency onboard the orbiting laboratory in November, has embraced the connection between their numerical designation and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the Douglas Adams’ sci-fi franchise, adopting its imagery and slogans for their official poster and unofficial patch.

"I was super excited when I was assigned to an [space station] expedition, mostly because I was assigned to an ISS expedition, of course, but part of the excitement was that it was 42," Samantha Cristoforetti, a European Space Agency astronaut, said in a recent press briefing. "I am a big science fiction fan and one of the things I really love is this ‘trilogy in five parts’ that some of you might know."

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I have a feeling this is going to be the best thing I’ll read today.

ivyarchive:

mymodernmet:

Illustrator Lili Chin's adorable series Dogs of the World illustrates 192 breeds of dogs grouped according to geographical origin.

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Goth

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ah, the feeling when you know something is popular on tumblr because of you.

Just knowing that someone is 7'5 doesn't really do it justice.

Sim Bhullar is on the Sacramento Kings! He's 7'5! Here's how tall 7'5 is.

Sim help in with the selfie pic.twitter.com/3urh06WzD2

— Jason Jones (@mr_jasonjones) September 26, 2014

Let's examine this more closely:

I have been writing about Sim Bhullar for about two years now and I really want him to actually be in the NBA, okay?

The first game back at McGuirk Alumni Stadium has seen the support structure under the video board collapse. That's not good.

If it seems strange to see the video board at the newly renovated and re-opened McGuirk Alumni Stadium on the University of Massachusetts campus that low, it's because it's not supposed to be like that.

Oh my god. The video board just fell down at the UMass-BG game. UMass has a new stadium...yikes! pic.twitter.com/uLChWo2Rnf

— Jordan Strack (@JordanStrack) September 27, 2014

The video board that collapsed at UMass. pic.twitter.com/AaXJCF6d7m

— Nicholas O'Malley (@nickjomalley) September 27, 2014

Announcer during UMASS game: "The video board just fell." pic.twitter.com/OA0LSc2lnM

— Chris Hassel (@hasselESPN) September 27, 2014

One suspects there are some angry phone calls being made to the company, or companies, responsible for the installation of that video board. Thankfully, it appears no one was hurt.

timothy writes: Kevin Bates showed off his tiny ("credit card sized") homebrewed game-playing rig at OSCON this summer. Not content with merely wallet sized, he's now squeezed enough display — three of them, lacking a curved display to wrap around the wrist — input sensors, and processing power (Atmega 328p) to play Tetris on a tiny, multi-segmented bracelet (video). Sure, there's been Tetris on watches before, but from large-budget companies, not — at least not that I've ever seen — from hackers. Bates' post gives some more technical details, too.

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Via ESPN

Tennessee offensive lineman Jashon Robertson, a 304-pound man, hauled in this tipped pass on third-and-long. He was penalized for "illegal touching," seeing as he was not an eligible receiver on the play. But when it comes to big men and footballs, baby, ain't no touching illegal.

Look at him go! The Vols probably ought to dial up a goal line play for the mighty fella.