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Reblog, click the box, Wait for 5 sec, Press Skip, Enjoy!

toocooltobehipster:

(Source: twotruths-go, via lightspeedlions)

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lightspeedlions: Had to reblog this, obviously.

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gingerhaze:

brofisting:

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kaeferlein:

paging aimee and noelle

i paused this in the middle to reblog

i can’t stop laughing

the best part is that two people took time out of their day to do this

they could have just slapped the actual song over it

but no

they had to sing it themselves

I

think my whole day is worth it now

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heyoscarwilde: From imdb: ”During the filming of some scenes for The Princess Bride, the weather became markedly cold for Robin Wright Penn. Andre the Giant helped her by placing one of his hands over her head; his hands were so large that one would entirely cover the top of her head, keeping her warm.” comic by Box Brown :: via flickr.com

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jtotheizzoe: About Pepper Spray - The Dose Makes the Poison This weekend, we were repeatedly sprayed in the retinas by a full-bore stream of shocking police brutality, thanks to the pepper-spraying incident (and its continuing fallout, and the meme-of-questionable-taste) at UC-Davis. But what IS  ”pepper spray”? What’s the chemistry and the medical background behind Officer Pike’s brutality cannon? I can tell you that it’s a helluva lot worse than rubbing your eyes after making salsa. Pepper spray is “pepper” in name alone. This is pure chemical capsaicin extracts, and there are certifiable health risks (mental and physical) associated with its use. Deborah Blum reviews those in a piece on the guest blog at SciAm: But we’ve taken to calling it pepper spray, I think, because that makes it sound so much more benign than it really is, like something just a grade or so above what we might mix up in a home kitchen. The description hints maybe at that eye-stinging effect that the cook occasionally experiences when making something like a jalapeno-based salsa, a little burn, nothing too serious. Until you look it up on the Scoville scale and remember, as toxicologists love to point out, that the dose makes the poison.  That we’re not talking about cookery but a potent blast of chemistry.  So that if OC spray is the U.S. police response of choice  – and certainly, it’s been used with dismaying enthusiasm during the Occupy protests nationwide, as documented in this excellent Atlantic roundup -  it may be time to demand a more serious look at the risks involved. (via Guest Blog, Scientific American)

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quidditchcapricious: Reblogging because the rest of the world needs to learn to move their lighthouses. Because they are blocking freedom.

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Did you know? The Easter Island Statues have bodies: Easter Island Statue Project The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) is a private research program and archive created by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Principle Investigator and EISP founder and director, with Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Rapa Nui artist and co-director of EISP.  The profound and immediate need for conservation actions on the moai became apparent over the course of more than 20 years of subjective observation and field experience acquired by us during our island-wide archaeological survey, which was conducted in association with our Chilean and Rapa Nui colleagues. more photos:

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highlikefashion: “L’hiver avant l’hiver”; Freja Beha Erichsen shot by David Sims for Vogue Paris August 2010
Are Danes the happiest people on earth because they’re “socialists” — or is their capitalism more enlightened?

underthemountainbunker:

INCOME EQUALITY AND SOCIAL SAFETY NETS are two reasons usually cited for Denmark’s happiness. But cultural differences, from family to cooking to hairstyles, are some other reasons.

Why Danes Are So Much Happier Than Americans

Danes… consistently rank as some of the happiest people in the world, a fact attributed at least in part to Denmark’s legendary income equality and strong social safety net.

Forbes recently cited another possible factor; the Danes’ “high levels of trust.” They trust each other, they trust ‘outsiders,’ they even trust their government. 90% of Danes vote. Tea party types dismiss Denmark as a hotbed of socialism, but really, they’re just practicing a more enlightened kind of capitalism.

In fact, as Richard Wilkinson, a British professor of social epidemiology, recently stated on PBS NewsHour, “if you want to live the American dream, you should move to Finland or Denmark, which have much higher social mobility.”

[…] we’re not these ‘holy people’ who can manage everything, we just have different ethics. We don’t subsidize corn like you do, and also, there is a 25% VAT. And it’s socially acceptable to leave work at around 4 or 5 o’clock and pick up your kids from school, go home, share a family meal. From a management point of view, if people have a nice family life, they’ll be more productive.

KT: Denmark is famous for having so much less income inequality; do kitchen workers in Danish restaurants make a decent salary?

TH: Yes, a dishwasher in Denmark gets $25 an hour.

KT: Do they get sick days and benefits, too?

TH: Yes, and a pension, and health care, and maternity leave. To me, the more equal your society is, the better it is for everybody. It’s not right for a country as rich as yours to have so many poor people. This thing with Americans and taxes, I don’t understand it.

I make quite a lot of money, I pay 67% tax on much of it, and I don’t mind. I like the idea that the girl who’s sitting next to my daughter, whose mother is a cleaning lady, has exactly the same opportunity to get an education that my daughter has. I don’t think that’s socialism. To me, that’s human decency. That girl didn’t choose her parents, why shouldn’t she have the same opportunities? Read more…