Nothing is faster than the speed of light. But compared to the unimaginable size of the Universe, light is actually extremely slow. This video is 45 minutes long and during that time, a photon emitted from the Sun1 will only travel through a portion of our solar system.
The ground just starts cracking right in front of the snowboarder. I mean, what do you even do when the ground fractures and the snow murmurs and life glitches like that? What do you do when you have two seconds to realize you're screwed and to come up with a plan to unscrew yourself? You can't do anything, really.
Libertem os "fupos"! A onda iniciada no Instagram por meninas inglesas e americanas que deixaram os pelos das axilas crescerem para pintá-los e exibi-los na rede social chegou ao Brasil.
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Baldauf initially began the process of flagging all the references to color in the text — more than 2,600 of them — as a sort of mechanism to help her concentrate on reading David Foster Wallace’s infamous masterwork, a notoriously difficult literary achievement that has divided readers on one side or the other, or in many cases, lost somewhere in the middle. Stymied by her early attempts to tackle the book, Baldauf “realized that the part I cared the most about was the color references, and that was going to be my impetus — it was going to be the familiar, intriguing thing that was going to help me focus, to commit,” she told Hyperallergic.
This helpful guide about what 200 calories looks like reminds us just how much healthy food we’re giving up each time we have a treat.
yeah, asshole. how dare you eat an order of french fries when you could have literally shoved 22 banana peppers in your fucking face-hole. what a piece of shit you are.
"Why would you eat a hot dog when instead you could eat a pound-and-a-half of baby carrots"
Let me eat what looks like 30 celery stalks, instead of a delicious muffin.
aside from the chocolate chips and the peanut butter maybe, everything on the left is cheaper than the right.
A value size mcds fries is like 99 cents and that amount of peppers is about 3.50 (I have a bag. recommended if u have the money, chop em up in ur eggs)
I really really hate posts like these because they always carry this gross “look it’s so easy to do this and it’s your fault you’re unhealthy” or whatever kind of tone. half the time posts like these completely ignore the convenience/prep time, income level/cost, and location. shit like this always, ALWAYS, whether intentional or not doesn’t matter, they always carry classist, blaming undertones.
not to mention, celery is almost entirely water. there is no flavor, there are barely any nutrients, and it’s not filling. Eat that cheap ass 99 cent gas station muffin and survive the morning while Harry Health-Kick goes and fucks himself
When his son Kai was four years old, Peterborough, Ontario-based father Keith Anderson got an arm tattoo of one of the boy’s drawings. Every year since then, Anderson has had another of Kai’s drawings tattooed on his right arm (save the drawing for Kai’s ninth year, which the boy vetoed on artistic grounds). Recently Kai–now 11–has even done some of the tattoo work on his father’s arm. You can see Anderson’s tattoos–which range from a daisy to a seahorse–in this heartwarming portrait series by photographer Chance Faulkner. Anderson told Faulkner that the tattoos will continue as long as Kai is interested in the project.
I stared at this image above for waaay too long; it’s gotta be one of the best animated gifs I’ve ever seen. These incredible looping animations were created by animator Nicolas Fong. Thanks to Russell Alton for helping me I.D. the creator via Twitter. Have a look at some more below.
In this country millions of children are going hungry. There are as many reasons as there are hungry children, but not a single one of them is the fault of the child.
This year's count puts the homeless at nearly 600,000. Many of them are our veterans, come home from wars with wounds that won't heal. Nearly a third of them live on the streets. Some cities work diligently to keep them off the streets, not by sheltering them but by making their attempts to sleep outdoors more difficult.
Our public schools are barely holding together, as funding, along with creativity and our ability to see our children as our future, declines. Their future is in jeopardy, and there are some who see that as a good thing.
Men and women in their middle years are now taking jobs normally held by teens or retirees. $20 and $30 an hour jobs are long gone for the masses. A $10-an-hour job is now classified as a goal to reach instead of a hurdle to jump over.
People who were promised adequate retirements are finding, 30 years after the pact, that nothing was written in blood. The money they worked for and counted on has been stolen away and they have no choice but to accept it. As criminal as it seems, it's just the way it is when times are bad and we all (well, almost all) have to tighten our belts.
Our need to keep health care obscenely profitable is responsible for shortening lives and causing needless pain. We seem not to be able to make the connection when ad campaigns by insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains bombard our airwaves. Someone is paying for those ads. We try not to think about who that might be.
Our roads and bridges and buildings are crumbling and we're supposed to believe there is no money to fix them. We wait for the inevitable disaster that will open the vault to the funds hiding there all along. Large numbers of people will have to die as a sacrifice before more can live.
Private interests are carpet-bombing the land of the free and the home of the brave. We say we don't know how to stop them, apparently not even noticing that we've made a habit of nurturing and promoting politicians who make no secret of their allegiance to them.
But I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know.
So why aren't we talking about these things all day every day until something gets done about them? Why aren't we seeing periodic updates on these insults to the human spirit on the news?
A hungry child wonders where he'll be sleeping tonight.
A good person working hard to build a safe future suddenly finds herself jobless with no comparable employment in sight.
A man nearing retirement age finds that the equity in his house is worth a third of what it was 10 years ago, and his retirement package is worth even less.
A person gets sick. The illness becomes chronic. Work is out of the question, but the costs to stay stable have risen and are now beyond reach. Next step: bankruptcy.
Tent cities are springing up, then being torn down.
And so on.
These stories get published and most of us react the way the writer intended, but the big news takes over and the stories, sad as they are, get lost.
Big news like (you knew this was coming) sports world scandals, Sarah Palin doing anything, God's personal messages to certain GOP leaders, the hurtful words one public person used against someone else, and the interminable, advertiser-driven, celebrity happenings.
When was the last time the news media was so captivated by a story about any of the abuses I've listed, they made it "Breaking News" and stayed on it for days on end, without regard for regular programming?
When was the last time the public went on a rampage against those abuses, protesting in numbers so powerful they couldn't be ignored until change finally came?
Never. It has never happened. Which is why we're still where we are, and the perpetrators are still where they are--growing stronger in a place where they need not be afraid.
There are powerful factions out there working to build our country to their liking. They welcome the distractions, and often manufacture them in order to divert our attention away from their efforts to take us down. After decades of practice, the demagogues have fear-mongering down to an art form. It's no accident, for example, that Ted Cruz looks, acts and sounds like Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Or that Rand Paul confuses libertarianism with liberty. Or that a vengeful, gun-toting God has suddenly become the Right's co-pilot.
They understand the media better than we do. They know that religion, bigotry, and misogyny push the right buttons and keep the noise going. They know enough of us are easily distracted and will believe anything but the truth. Those people are their ace in the hole. They couldn't win without them.
Our mission, if we choose to accept it, is to bring the dialogue back to the bigger issues and keep them front and center. Our story is the story of the masses. We owe it to us all to get it right.
RoccamOccam writes with the following news from The Register: Internet giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Taboola have reportedly paid AdBlock Plus to allow their ads to pass through its filter software. The confidential deals were confirmed by the Financial Times, the paper reported today [Paywalled]. From the Register's article: Eyeo GmbH, the German startup behind Adblock Plus, said it did not wish to comment. So far more than 300 million users have downloaded its software, it said. The add-on is free to download, with Eyeo generating revenue through its "whitelisting" programme. Companies can request their ads to be unblocked as long as they comply with AdBlock's "acceptable ads" policy. Large companies pay a fee for the service.
Recently unveiled at the MadArt space in Seattle, Middle Fork is the lastest sculptural work by artist John Grade who worked with countless volunteers to realize this enormous scale mold of a 140-year-old tree.
The process began a year ago when Grade and a crew of assistants scaled a Western Hemlock tree in North Bend, Washington with help of a team of arborists. At nearly 90 feet in the air they created sectional plaster molds of the living tree which were carefully lowered and transported back to the MadArt space over a period of two weeks. Over the next 12 months, hundreds of volunteers (some who walked in right off the streets) helped to create a hollow sculpture of the tree using hundreds of thousands of small wood blocks. The final piece was carefully sanded down and is now suspended in the gallery. Watch the video below to see how it all came together.
Middle Fork is the first exhibition at the new MadArt space in Seattle and will be on view through April 25th before it goes on tour to galleries and art fairs around the U.S. In two years the pieces will be transported to the base of the living tree from which the mold was taken where they will decay and disintegrate back into the ground.
An anonymous reader writes with this Fascinating profile of one particular Wikipedia editor Giraffedata (a 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson), who has spent the last seven years correcting only the incorrect use of "comprised of" on Wikipedia. Using a code to crawl for uses of "comprised of" throughout all of Wiki's articles, he'll then go in and manually correct them (for example, using "consists of" or "composed of") and has made over 47,000 edits to date.
Each September the Alaskan wood frogs freeze. Two-thirds of their body water turns to ice. If you picked them up, they would not move. If you bent one of their legs, it would break. Their hearts stop beating, their blood no longer flows and their glucose levels sky rocket. BUt then during the spring, they thaw out and return to normal. (Source)
