February 2012
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“V is a kind of pale, transparent pink: I think it’s called, technically, quartz...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, on being a synaesthete. Steve Silberman profiles synaesthesia in Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete. Read it. You won’t be sorry. (via jtotheizzoe)
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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“Now, this may seem strange from someone who writes about pretty dresses (mostly)...”
– You Don’t Have to Be Pretty - A Dress A Day (It was nice to read this, this morning)
Feb 6th
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Feb 2nd
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January 2012
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Academic Phrase Generator →
The first person to incorporate one of these into a paper this semester wins. (P.S. I don’t believe it will be that difficult.)
Jan 30th
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Take Your Placebos, Or Die →
jtotheizzoe: In a trial of drugs for heart disease, one group who took their drugs regularly, as directed were 40% less likely to die than those who did not.  The catch? Both of those groups were taking placebos. From NeuroSkeptic What the placebo adherence effect demonstrates is that there may be confounds no-one has thought of. They might even be impossible to measure. And if these mystery...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– The Fault in Our Stars (via myreligioniskindness)
Jan 22nd
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"Good intentions ease pain, add to pleasure:... →
This is why I bake things for people.
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy in “Bourbon, Neat,” quoted by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Since I first read this essay, when I was perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old, I have remembered that invaluable phrase precisely and used it on occasion: “hot bosky bite.” For some time, I supposed —stupidly— that...
Jan 21st
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Jan 18th
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Today's coping method
Heat up a half cream, half whole milk mixture, then froth. Make hot chocolate with it. GOD IS THIS EVER DELICIOUS. I feel better already.
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
“Civilization, it is immediately apparent, is simply organized resistance to...”
– Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements) … and continued: “Oxidation betrays the march of time and the inevitable triumph of entropy. The gas gives life, and in doing so brings death closer.” (via jtotheizzoe)
Dec 28th
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Dec 25th
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My life this week
My big sister is getting fucking married. FUCK YES SHE IS. so happy. i just ate half a giant box of nerds. Then I discovered the magic of marshmallows dipped in Nutella. My sister accidentally stole my laptop’s power cord. Confined to tablet. First world problem. Yesterday I just read a whole book. It was the greatest thing. This semester was so awful that I didn’t even have time to...
Dec 23rd
“But granted the consciousness that even between the closest people there persist...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters: 1899-1902, trans. Jane Bannard Greene (via sketchofthepast )
Dec 17th
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Do you need a hug? →
Yes you do. I LOVE ALL THESE PEOPLE. I LOVE ALL PEOPLE. SO MUCH LOVE RIGHT NOW.
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Dec 2nd
This is one of the most boring papers I've ever...
I’m sorry I’ve failed you, ATP synthase. :( You’re still my favorite enzyme.
Dec 1st
November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Thought Catalog: Notes on Stalking my... →
Nov 29th
annicka: My dad (reading from a list of the top 100 happiest cities): actually, New York is at #39! Way above Chicago. Me: yeah, I’m sure that when asked New Yorkers are like “IT’S GREAT I’M SO HAPPY!!!” Kelsey: and those people are actually covered in rats My mom: yeah, they’re stepping over rats to get to the microphone Kelsey: yeah, the New Yorker being interviewed is actually just a...
Nov 27th
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Nov 21st
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“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night...”
– NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1  (via danikamcclure)
Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 13th
It's Okay To Be Smart: Induction ceremony for The... →
jtotheizzoe: Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life. From this day forward you will carry the mantle of science high in the air, proudly displaying it for all to see. Sometimes you may carry it through dark places, where men of ignorant minds and steely hearts threaten your path. Sometimes you…
Nov 11th
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