Pakistan’s Sachal Studios Orchestra play Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five.” Via Open Culture.
Mae Karthauser was a special guest star performing in “Cabaret Brocante 2012.” Filmed in Poffabro, Frisanco, Pordenone, Italy. Film by Michele Frederico.
Melissa Harris-Perry on cultural appropriation and “The Harlem Shake”
TIME asks Neil deGrasse Tyson about the universe’s most astounding fact. This is a stunning illustration of his answer.
Beauty doesn’t need to be fancy. Projector Snow by Brian Maffitt.
This is brilliant. the Scared is scared, by Biana Giaever.
— by Donald Miller, introducing Bob Goff’s book Love Does (via emilykuenzi)
Baby Spoon-billed Sandpipers emerge from the nest for the first time.
— Cord Jefferson
(Source: The Awl)
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This is my third day of writing non-stop. When I stopped to eat dinner today, and had to look at something other than my computer screen, I actually...
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I once had a friend from school come to my house over the weekend and I didn’t really know what to do to entertain her. The only friends I had at my...
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Anonymous asked: Just a comment: I am having an unusually difficult bout with depression right now. When I awaken each and every morning, I am greeted instantaneously by fear, anxiety, and a sense of doom that hangs over me for the first 4 or 5 hours of each day. I survive by finding ways to distract myself from thinking about the environment and the UNkind world out there. And now that I've discovered "Kind World," I find it is pure blessing. Just wanted you to know. Might even offer a story of my own soon.
It’s notes like these that make stopping this project inconceivable to me. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!
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Advice I have been given
Don’t be too loud. Don’t be too quiet. Don’t be forceful. Be polite. Encourage dialogue. Speak your mind. Don’t say...
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Humble Apology
This morning I thought our show was about chemistry.
I proceeded to Tumblr a series of chemistry-related jokes and puns.
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