March 2011
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Things that float around in my head
To me, the most frustrating and depressing thing on the planet is that you can’t go up to most businesses and get a reaction by saying “if you make these changes, it’s better for the planet in the long run”—you can’t even do it by saying “if you make these changes, it’s better for your bottom line in the long run.” To get change in...
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Wah
Anybody into drawing employer discrimination demand curves? eh? eh?
(so frustrating, ‘cause I usually love this class)
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Also this:
LCF MA Graduate Showcase: Yan Liang
“Liang’s research focused on the interaction and relationship between disease and wood. Through examining the unique and unusual malformations and deformed trees she translated a collection which mixed fabric and raw material to stunning effect.”
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Stuff is cool, guys
Scientists Create World’s 1st Practical Artificial Leaf, 10X as Efficient as the Real Thing
“The artificial leaf uses nickel and cobalt as catalysts to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen by facilitating oxygen-oxygen bonding.
Oxygen and hydrogen molecules are then sent to a fuel cell that can produce electricity. If the device is placed in a one-gallon bucket of water in...
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well, this sums up my taste in music
I keep humming Under Cover of Darkness (The Strokes) and when I get to the part that goes “I’m tired of all your friends listening at your door” I absentmindedly switch the lyrics to “I’m tired of magazines saying flat butts are the thing” (Sir Mix-a-lot, Baby Got Back).
“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You...”
– You Should Date An Illiterate Girl, Charles Warnke (via nocternity)
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Waves
I was in love with this book as soon as I got half way down this page
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91w/section2.html
(I was just going to post my favorite passage from it, but I can’t choose which perspective I like most—it’s hopeless—I love it all.)
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“Don’t explain love to me—love, love, love is not why we leave. It is...”
– Thao Nguyen (Tallymarks)
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we persuade bones from flesh and stare
hateful
at the negative space we know
is the only space for
us
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the loving perception that
all of the teeth
will stay in your head
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I did not grow up
I still wake up
scared
to rainstorms and
think the world is
ending
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I'm Chicago-bound this afternoon. Any recommendations on places I really need to go or things I should try and do? (I am currently mourning the one restaurant I knew there--RIP Earwax Cafe--so veggie-friendly food places are especially welcome.)
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and
her two hands wrapped
protectively around that glass of
wine
empty space between fingers
mimicking
empty space between
ribs
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“Recycling aluminum cans in the company cafeteria and ceremonial tree plantings...”
– Paul Hawken (The Commerce of Ecology)
ethosclash asked: Can we be Tumblr friends?
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“You’ll have a moustache, I’ll have a beard, we’ll both wear capes, and we’ll make out”
Favorite Kaleidoquiz quote of 2011
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