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travelingcolors: The Polite House, Trondheim | Norway (by JVA)

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:03:11 -0400

The Polite House, Trondheim | Norway (by JVA)

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (eBook Original): Neil Gaiman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:56:17 -0400

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (eBook Original): Neil Gaiman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store:

How to Talk to Girls at Parties (eBook Original): Neil Gaiman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

It’s my SF short story (currently being adapted into a film by Hedwig’s own John Cameron Mitchell) it’s free, and comes along with an OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE preview — you can read the first 3 chapters, a month before publication. It’s up on Amazon now and you can download it to your Kindle or, if you do not have a Kindle, to Kindle software on your computer, phone, tablet etc.

Feel very free to spread this one around.

In the UK, that’s http://www.amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/B00C2UUJX4?tag=adapas-21 instead, or at Google Play for Books at https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=SP1Mzpj9F1IC

laughingsquid: The Netherlands Flaunts Its Hipster Credentials...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:50:10 -0400

laughingsquid:

The Netherlands Flaunts Its Hipster Credentials in Tourism Campaign: ‘Holland. The Original Cool.’

Beyonce Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women and Gender Studies

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:48:28 -0400

Beyonce Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women and Gender Studies:

Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence

Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces

Crazy in Love: The Diagnosis and Treatment of “Female Hysteria” During the Late Nineteenth Century

Naughty Girl: Disidentification and the Performance of Female Sexual Promiscuity

Cater 2 U: Female Subservience and the Reinforcement of Hegemonic Gendered Power Structures

Get Me Bodied: A Radical Critique of the Sex/Gender Binary

Freakum Dress: The Role of Consumerism in the Construction and Assertion of Female Sexuality

Videophone: Social Networking Technology and the Deconstruction of the Dominant Gaze

Run the World (Girls): Historical Perspectives on Global Female Leadership

Bills Bills Bills: The Dual-Income Model and the Reshaping of the Domestic Sphere

Soldier: The Hypermasculinization of U.S. Military Culture

Independent Women: Girl I Didn’t Know You Could Get Down (to Business in the Public Sphere and Still Be Expected to Perform Domestic Labor During the “Second Shift”) Like That

juliuzickboy: Tempat cukur gaul beudh dah 😂😂😂😂 – View on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:50:46 -0400

juliuzickboy:

Tempat cukur gaul beudh dah 😂😂😂😂 – View on Path.

PANK! heheheehhehehehehehehhehe

awkwardsituationist: 98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:49:24 -0400

awkwardsituationist:

98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.

though a well recognized fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living entirely off his monthly state pension of 80 euros and the kindness of others.

apiphile: ohaugustine: theteratophile: watchtheskytonight: sa...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:47:20 -0400

apiphile:

ohaugustine:

theteratophile:

watchtheskytonight:

sassytimelordminion:

ilovecharts:

And why does this exist?

~~I’m a writer this is exactly what I need for my story~~

No mention of the cheeks?

albert fish said the testicles and buttocks also taste delicious.

to be fair he said it in a letter to the parents of the children he ate.

and that’s why he’s my favourite

like j.d. was ~tragique~ but fish was just fucking hilar.

HE SHORT-CIRCUITED THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

WITH ALL THE NEEDLES HE HAD PUSHED INTO HIS FUCKING SCROTUM

ikenbot: The 4th dimension in our case is where the 3D...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:46:15 -0400

ikenbot:

The 4th dimension in our case is where the 3D structures including this very Universe combine and exist within changing time frames. 4D structure can’t exist within a 3D one but a 3D structure can exist in a 4D just like your drawings exist within that flat paper as lines and points but couldn’t exist in our 3D world by itself. Extra dimensions work the same, like a Matryoshka doll that loses and or gains properties the further you go.

Image: 3D projection of a tesseract undergoing a simple rotation in four dimensional space.

In mathematical physics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime (named after the mathematician Hermann Minkowski) is the mathematical space setting in which Einstein’s theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated. In this setting the three ordinary dimensions of space are combined with a single dimension of time to form a four-dimensional manifold for representing a spacetime. [**]

In physics, spacetime (also space–time, space time or space–time continuum) is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single continuum. Spacetime is usually interpreted with space as existing in three dimensions and time playing the role of a fourth dimension that is of a different sort from the spatial dimensions. From a Euclidean space perspective, the universe has three dimensions of space and one of time. By combining space and time into a single manifold, physicists have significantly simplified a large number of physical theories, as well as described in a more uniform way the workings of the universe at both the supergalactic and subatomic levels. [**]

But my favorite explanation of extra dimensions in general is Carl Sagan’s version. His version was based on Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions which is an 1884 satirical short story by Edwin Abbott Abbott:

The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland which is occupied by geometric figures. Women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a humble square, a member of the social caste of gentlemen and professionals in a society of geometric figures, who guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square has a dream about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) which is inhabited by “lustrous points”.

He attempts to convince the realm’s ignorant monarch of a second dimension but finds that it is essentially impossible to make him see outside of his eternally straight line.

He is then visited by a three-dimensional sphere, which he cannot comprehend until he sees Spaceland for himself. This Sphere (who remains nameless, like all characters in the novella) visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hopes of eventually educating the population of Flatland of the existence of Spaceland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing of anyone found preaching the truth of Spaceland and the third dimension. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste).

After the Square’s mind is opened to new dimensions, he tries to convince the Sphere of the theoretical possibility of the existence of a fourth (and fifth, and sixth …) spatial dimension.

The depiction above is a 4 dimensional figure as represented by 3 dimensional cubes within cubes to visualize how 4th dimensions may work.

Related: Carl Sagan explains extra dimensions

straydog733: nicoleanell: hazellazer: niknak79: The kitten...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:45:39 -0400

straydog733:

nicoleanell:

hazellazer:

niknak79:

The kitten apocalypse

I choose death by little orange kitties

Chaos isn’t a pit, chaos is a pant leg. The climb is all there is.

“Jack, Jack, get them off, I’m gonna fall! I’ve just got the one leg to work with, help!”

“Aww, but Gene, it’s a much cuter way to die than the zombs.”

KYOOT OVERLOAD KYOOT OVERLOAD!!!!!

pheroxia: Hello to me in 10 years !

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:44:28 -0400

pheroxia:

Hello to me in 10 years !

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Mon, 20 May 2013 10:44:02 -0400

ahmadcipoi: Kelmarin.. Kulihat awan membentuk wajahmu. Desah...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:43:17 -0400

ahmadcipoi:

Kelmarin.. Kulihat awan membentuk wajahmu. Desah angin meniupkan namamu. Tubuhku terpaku

Aiseh Cipoi…. Lagu fevret saya ni….

allcreatures: Two baby opossums play on a branch, with one...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:15 -0400

allcreatures:

Two baby opossums play on a branch, with one using its tail to cling on, while photographer Ronald Wittek took this photo while visiting a farm in Minnesota, USA

Picture: Ronald Wittek/Arco Images/Solent News (via Pictures of the day: 20 May 2013 - Telegraph)

CUTE NAK MAMPOS

angrywhistler: Max Fesl

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:00 -0400

angrywhistler:

Max Fesl

explore-blog: Patti Smith, reconstructionist. Pair with Carl...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:41:28 -0400

explore-blog:

Patti Smith, reconstructionist. Pair with Carl Sagan on books.

raptoravatar: domesticabusewillsaveusall: Stefon’s Wedding |x|...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:40:31 -0400

raptoravatar:

domesticabusewillsaveusall:

Stefon’s Wedding |x| SNL 18/5/2013

German Smurfs, Gizblow the coked up Gremlin, Human Fire Extinguishers, Ben Affleck and is that Ryan Seacrest? No it’s a drowned albino who looks like Axl Rose.

I’m going to miss Bill Hader.

But no Spudd Webb?

explore-blog: How creativity works – associative vs....

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:39:23 -0400

explore-blog:

How creativity works – associative vs. bisociative thought, or habit vs. originality

The Frogman: Dear Yahoo,

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:36:38 -0400

The Frogman: Dear Yahoo,:

thefrogman:

First, I would like to welcome you to this wonderful tumblr community. Most of us just sign up for free, but I guess paying a billion dollars works too.

A lot of us are apprehensive about your presence in our space. I’m afraid we don’t like change very much. Whenever something big happens, we…

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Mon, 20 May 2013 10:35:58 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 10:33:02 -0400