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Fri, 24 May 2013 09:36:21 -0400

visualamor: foxmouth: Bill I don’t know you, 2010 The End or...

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:48:24 -0400

foxmouth:

Bill I don’t know you, 2010

The End or just before, 2007

Portrait 18, 2011

My Deep End Friend, 2013

To Pause, 2011

Untitled, 2012

Paintings by Winston Chmielinski

Next level.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:26 -0400

slenclerman: yes friends let us blaze the marijuana! four hundred and twenty haha

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:07:58 -0400

slenclerman:

yes friends let us blaze the marijuana! four hundred and twenty haha

jayaprada: bosch, the garden of earthly delights

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:36:20 -0400

jayaprada:

bosch, the garden of earthly delights

wilburwhateley: The Statement of Randolph Carter

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:48:23 -0400

wilburwhateley:

The Statement of Randolph Carter

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"Science can measure anxiety. This is not just because people will report themselves, in surveys, to..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:36:30 -0400

“Science can measure anxiety. This is not just because people will report themselves, in surveys, to be more or less anxious; it is also because a genetic basis for anxiety has been identified. People with a shorter version of a stretch of the DNA that inhibits the serotonin-transporter gene on chromosome 17 are more likely to be anxious. That chronic anxiety is biological—that it is not caused solely by circumstance—is shown by the fact that medication containing a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (that is, an anti-depressant) can relieve it. (Would medication count as nurture or as nature?) But that’s just the biology. The psychology is everything that the organism does to cope with its biology. Innately anxious people develop all kinds of strategies for overcoming, disguising, avoiding, repressing, and, sometimes, exploiting their tendency to nervousness. These strategies are acquired—people aren’t born with them—and they are constructed from elements that the environment provides. The mind can work only with what it knows, and one of the things it knows is parents, who often become major players in the psychic drama of anxiety maintenance. The mere fact of having “the gene for anxiety” determines nothing, which is why some anxious people become opera buffs, some become water-skiers, and some just sit and stare out the window, brooding on the fact that their parents did not read them enough bedtime stories. These people are unlikely to be relieved by learning that cognitive science has determined that bedtime stories are overrated.”

- Louis Menand - What Comes Naturally (via basedsushigoat)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 19:12:31 -0400

missatombomb: Untitled by deafburglar on Flickr.

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:29 -0400

missatombomb:

Untitled by deafburglar on Flickr.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 09:36:18 -0400

spaceplasma: Barnard Stares at NGC 2170 A gaze across a cosmic...

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:48:21 -0400

spaceplasma:

Barnard Stares at NGC 2170

A gaze across a cosmic skyscape, this telescopic mosaic reveals the continuous beauty of things that are. The evocative scene spans some 6 degrees or 12 Full Moons in planet Earth’s sky. Above, folds of red, glowing gas are a small part of an immense, 300 light-year wide arc. Known as Barnard’s loop, the structure is too faint to be seen with the eye, shaped by long gone supernova explosions and the winds from massive stars, and still traced by the light of hydrogen atoms. Barnard’s loop lies about 1,500 light-years away roughly centered on the Great Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery along the edge of Orion’s molecular clouds. But beyond lie other fertile star fields in the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Below, the long-exposure composite finds NGC 2170, a dusty complex of nebulae near a neighboring molecular cloud some 2,400 light-years distant.

Image Credit & Copyright: John Davis

areyoutryingtodeduceme: this will never not be hilarious to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:33:53 -0400

areyoutryingtodeduceme:

this will never not be hilarious to me

same, I always crack up

anukkinearthwalker: theamericankid: This is beautiful. yea...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:12:21 -0400

anukkinearthwalker:

theamericankid:

This is beautiful.

yea nice panels.