the sociologist

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saintropes: Word….

Sun, 26 May 2013 10:25:03 -0400

saintropes:

Word….

screamflydream: modifiedmermaid: My Wife’s Fight With Breast...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:00:11 -0400

screamflydream:

modifiedmermaid:

My Wife’s Fight With Breast Cancer
one of the saddest and most beautiful photo essays I’ve ever seen.

The Battle We Didn’t Choose. The only war worth fighting for.

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Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:00:20 -0400

missgingerlee: The very thing…

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:00:27 -0400

missgingerlee:

The very thing…

shitroughdrafts: The Ten Commandments, by God. 1445 BC.

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:13:12 -0400

shitroughdrafts:

The Ten Commandments, by God. 1445 BC.

inrestless-dreams: Timothy Leary: You aren’t like them. I love...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:00:28 -0400

inrestless-dreams:

Timothy Leary: You aren’t like them.

I love this.

theperplexedobserver: thespacegoat: Courses:CourseraEDXUdacityU...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:00:21 -0400

theperplexedobserver:

thespacegoat:

Courses:
Coursera
EDX
Udacity
University of Reddit

Books:
Bartleby
Gutenberg
Librivox
Poem Hunter

Videos:
Academic Earth
C. G. P. Grey
Crash Course
Khan Academy
Minute Physics
The New Boston Tutorials
TED
Unplug the TV

Documentaries:
Documentary Heaven
Top Documentary Films

Languages:
BBC Languages
Busuu
Dou Lingo
Live Mocha
MemRise
Verbling

Music:
How to Play Piano
Justin Guitar
Music Theory
Play Bass Now
Teoria

Programming:
Code Academy
Coding Bat
HTML Dog
Learn Code the Hard Way
Ruby Monk
Trypython

DIY/How-To:
Howcast
How Stuff Works
Instructables
The Daily Miscellany
Wiki How
Wonder How-To

Math:
Math Run
Project Euler
Wolfram Alpha

Cooking:
Cooking for Engineers
Cooklet
How2Heroes
Reluctant Gormet

I haven’t vetted all of these but can vouch for the value of many of them.

poortaste: George Orwell

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:57:38 -0400

poortaste:

George Orwell

mediaite: Imagine A World Without Hate

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:02:31 -0400

mediaite:

Imagine A World Without Hate

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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:00:05 -0400

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"When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional,..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:00:11 -0400

“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. The world teaches you that the way you exist in it is disgusting — you watch boys cringe backward in your dorm room when you talk about your period, blue water pretending to be blood in a maxi pad commercial. It is little things, and it is constant. In a food court in a mall, after you go to the gynecologist for the first time, you and your friend talk about how much it hurts, and over her shoulder you watch two boys your age turn to look at you and wrinkle their noses: the reality of your life is impolite to talk about. The world says that you don’t have a right to the space you occupy, any place with men in it is not yours, you and your body exist only as far as what men want to do with it. At fifteen, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. At almost thirty, you find fifteen-year-old boys you have never met still somehow believe you should bend your body to their will. They are children. They are children.”

- Stevie Nicks (via whisperingwordsofwisdom)

utnereader: Hipsters: overprivileged scum or scapegoats for...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:00:29 -0400

utnereader:

Hipsters: overprivileged scum or scapegoats for gentrification?

A recent New York Observer article diagnoses Brooklyn’s decline into a real-life version of Portlandia: “It’s as if the tumor of hipster culture that formed when cool kids moved to Williamsburg metastasized into a cluster of cysts pressing down on parts of the borough’s brain.” So hipsters are brain cancer, in case that wasn’t clear. The piece bears the clever headline “A Twee Grows in Brooklyn,” and it makes for fun reading. It got the thumbs-up in my Twitter world, which consists largely of media and publishing types who live in Brooklyn. Read more.

Art by Jacob Sanders

The deep philosophy of capitalism.

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:00:16 -0400

The deep philosophy of capitalism.

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Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:16:12 -0400

fuckyeahdementia: “What a difference 8 years makes: St. Peter’s...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:06:48 -0400

fuckyeahdementia:

“What a difference 8 years makes: St. Peter’s Square in 2005 and yesterday”

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thedailywhat: PROTIP of the Day: How Not to Get Stuck with...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:03:21 -0400

thedailywhat:

PROTIP of the Day: How Not to Get Stuck with Someone That Sucks

Situating yourself in the right spot in a group setting is a lot more important than you might think, says San Francisco designer Alex Cornell:

One of the most complex social situations you will encounter is the 45 seconds that elapse while deciding where to sit for dinner at a restaurant. Your choice should appear natural, unbiased and haphazard if executed properly. Timing is everything. These 45 seconds determine how enjoyable your next 2 hours will be. Once the pieces start to fall into place and people take their seats, your choices narrow. People sit, seemingly at random, and if you don’t take the appropriate measures, you’re inevitably stuck at the least interesting end of the table.

"It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:00:16 -0400

“It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.
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The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.”

- “I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via pureakhirah)