May 2012
16 posts
BEING HUMAN
by Naima
I wonder if the sun debates dawn some mornings not wanting to rise out of bed from under the down-feather horizon If the sky grows tired of being everywhere at once adapting to the mood swings of the weather If the clouds drift off trying to hold themselves together make deals with gravity to loiter a little longer I wonder if rain is scared of falling if it has trouble letting go If...
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“All too often, people with disabilities are pressured to feel gratitude for...”
– Laura Hershey, “The Good and Bad of Gratitude” (2010)
Laura Hershey was fucking amazing. FOREVER REBLOG.
(via flutterflyinvasion)
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“You may be tempted to think, “technology isn’t culture; it’s math and science.”...”
– Cruise Ship Tragedy a “Normal Accident”? (via sociolab)
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é-náhkôhe'šeme: i really feel like the reason 99%... →
emeraldtriangleprincess:
i really feel like the reason 99% of the photos you see of the emerald triangle are landscape shots is because the pervasive white upper/middle-class judeo-christian imaginary of a majestic pristine wilderness that must be totally devoid of human pollutants is still the dominant framework for…
“All memory has to be reimagined. For we have in our memories micro-films that...”
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics Of Space
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS -- Further adventures in... →
DAVID HOCKNEY’S SECRET KNOWLEDGE: COLLAGE AND THE... →
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Painting a New Path at the Kennedy School →
How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death... →
“Eating is internalizing the external environment.”
April 2012
23 posts
Drugs Frequently Potent Past Expiration →
Vanishing of the Bees -- Film →
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LAUGHING AT DISABILITY: DIABETES AND MENTAL... →
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“I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so...”
– Eduardo Galeano (via mexiroccan)
Sustainable Food and Privilege: Why is Green... →
Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None →
Going to Extreme Lengths to Purge Household Toxins →
The Importance of Forgetting (NPR) →
psychotherapy:
via On Point with Tom Ashbrook:
We talk so much about memory. Not losing it. Enhancing it. Diving into it. Working through it. Sometimes, says a raft of new science, it’s better to just forget. Forgetting, it turns out, may be a key part of mental health, mental hygiene.
Sigmund Freud said deal with it. Dive into that repressed stuff. Work it out. Work it through. Tony...
Politics makes us stupid →
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March 2012
20 posts
therapsida: Eileen submitted: Animals practice... →
environmint:
stfuprolife:
Wooly spider monkeys in Brazil eat certain plants that increase their estrogen level when food is low to have a lower chance of pregnancy.
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I’ll have to look into this
President Can Now Seize Control of All U.S. Food... →
MysteryHunters →
Construction of monsters and embodying fear of the unknown with Professor Mittman
Lying for the State →
Internal contradictions in Texas’s voluntary and informed consent law. Outright lies about linking abortions with breast cancer?? Patients have no rights to refuse invasive and arbitrary medical procedure and patient autonomy is completely removed
Hypothyroidism: The facts, the controversies, and... →
Dismissal of holistic thyroid treatment including rejection of adrenal fatigue and failing to look at balancing the whole endocrine system without fragmenting mind, body and environment—however, relevant info regarding misinformation
Health Care Advice: The Problem of Health... →
Paleo Diet Review →
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