when I sketch my mind,

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Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:39:58 -0600

Mid-week 7th week

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:53:06 -0600

essaycrisis:

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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:25:18 -0600

samraadeni: Aaand four of the nicest photos from this recent...

Thu, 30 May 2013 01:56:10 -0600

samraadeni:

Aaand four of the nicest photos from this recent buzzfeed article (And I mean article in the loosest sense of the word, but thanks for the photos anyway.)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/signs-youre-addicted-to-books-reading

oh god. I laughed out loud.

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:37:49 -0600

oh god. I laughed out loud.

photojojo: It doesn’t get much better than a smiling elephant...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:37:17 -0600

photojojo:

It doesn’t get much better than a smiling elephant swimming underwater. Photographer Claudia Legge captured these shots of a lifetime while on a trip to India. If you’re in London, you can see these wonderful prints in person at Sheridan & Co.

Up-Close and Personal With an Elephant Underwater

via It’s Nice That

thecakebar: Amazing 3D Latte Art by Kazuki Yamoto You don‘t...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:33:22 -0600

thecakebar:

Amazing 3D Latte Art by Kazuki Yamoto

You don‘t even have to love coffee in order to appreciate these super creative latte foam artworks by Japanese artist Kazuki Yamamoto. And we‘re not talking about the little smiley faces or flat palm tree patterns: this 26-year old latte artist, based in Osaka, creates actual 3D foam sculptures in the coffee mugs of the Cafe10g visitors. This thinking outside the box – or, rather – outside the cup – even gave Kazuki the idea to make the coffee foam climb out of one cup and reach for another. That way you might be served with a cup of coffee where a cat is trying to get into another one next to it, where tiny fish are swimming.

Cool coffee foam art by Kazuki Yamamoto
Besides these meticulous 3D sculptures, Kazuki also does some amazing flat latte art. His subjects vary from manga and video game characters to portraits of such people as Albert Einstein or John Lennon. Kazuki says his dream is to open up a his own cafe in Tokyo one day. For more 3d latte art, be sure to follow him on twitter.

but imagine the doctor as a lit teacher

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:52:50 -0600

Student: We don't know what the author actually meant, and they're dead, so it's not like we can go ask them.
The Doctor:
Student:
The Doctor:
Student:
The Doctor: brb

passerkirbius: I heartily endorse this comic. (via Maximumble -...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:44:20 -0600

passerkirbius:

I heartily endorse this comic.

(via Maximumble - #480 – Dolled)

Can we just take a minute to appreciate

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:39:33 -0600

Can we just take a minute to appreciate

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Wed, 22 May 2013 17:39:00 -0600

I can’t wait for this summer.

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:20:46 -0600

I can’t wait for this summer.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 19:19:31 -0600

"Well-read people are less likely to be evil."

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:19:24 -0600

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

- The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket (via prettybooks)

aseaofquotes: Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:18:38 -0600

aseaofquotes:

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

fuckyeahrenaissancewomen: Women of the Italian...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:42 -0600

fuckyeahrenaissancewomen:

Women of the Italian Renaissance | ISOTTA NOGAROLA (c.1418-1466)

Isotta was born into a wealth Veronese family with a well-established tradition of learning; many of her relatives were university-educated, and her aunt, Angela Nogarola, was a poetess. Isotta’s father died when she was young, so it was her mother who took charge of the children’s education, hiring the humanist scholar Martino Rizzoni to tutor the Nogarola girls. Two of the sisters, Isotta and Ginevra, particularly embraced their studies, becoming fluent in Latin and knowledgeable in classical philosophy, rhetoric, and the study of Scriptures and theology. Ginevra would marry in 1438 and put aside her scholarship, but Isotta continued to write throughout her life.

The Nogarola sisters sought to enter the literary world by writing to close family friends and kin, and the scholarly contacts of Rizzoni. Their early correspondences earned them high praise among academics; when the noted humanist Guarino da Verona read their compositions, he wrote enthusiastically of the glory he brought their home city: “Oh the glory indeed of our State and our Age! Oh how rare a bird on earth, like nothing so much as a black swan! If earlier ages had borne these proven virgins, with how many verses would they have sung … would they not have honoured these modest, noble, erudite, eloquent women …?”

You might notice that he says nothing about their academic worthiness. Such is the case with most of the praises heaped on Isotta, and other female humanists like her: they are lauded for their virginity, singled out as remarkable among women, raised up as an emblem for their city or as spiritual sisters of the women of antiquity. They are made out to be symbols rather than active participants in the public discourse, prodigies with masculine souls rather than ordinary women who had taken advantage of the opportunity to learn. In a city where females were excluded from public life, the idea that any woman was capable of learning and contributing to high-minded discussions threatened the status quo.

In any case, Isotta was heartened to have attracted the attention of so distinguished a figure as Guarino, and so in 1437 she wrote to him directly. Guarino did not reply, leaving Isotta feeling angry and shamed. “You have treated me wretchedly,” she wrote, some months later, “and have shown as little consideration as if I had never been born. For I am ridiculed throughout the city, those of my own condition deride me. I am attached on all sides … Even if I am deserving of this outrage, it is unworthy of you to inflict it. What have I done to be thus despised by you, Guarino?” This time, he did write back, sending her a stinging response that dismissed her as an overemotional woman who lacked the manly virtue he had once believed she possessed.

Her family moved to Venice in 1438, and soon after an anonymous pamphlet began circulating, railing against the vices of the city’s women. Isotta herself was singled out, accused of promiscuity and incest because “she dares to engage so deeply in the finest literary studies” and “the woman of fluent speech is never chaste”. The attack may have been politically-motivated, aimed at discrediting the Nogarola family rather than Isotta specifically, but it nonetheless underlined again the precariousness of her position as a female scholar in a male field.

Utimately, Isotta withdrew into a life of celibacy and solitude, moving from secular to sacred studies — this being seen as a more appropriate field of interest for a woman. She continued to correspond with other intellectuals, particularly the Venetian politician Ludovico Foscarini, with whom she debated whether Adam or Eve held the greater responsibility for the fall of humanity.

oceandrawn: I love this and I want to cry

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:35:16 -0600

oceandrawn:

I love this and I want to cry

"But this is one corner, of one country, on one continent on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:22:03 -0600

“But this is one corner, of one country, on one continent on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe, that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and growing and never remaining the same for a single millisecond, and there is so much—so much to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I’m not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.”

- The Doctor (via raconterunehistoire)

raconterunehistoire: incidentalcomics: Message to a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:18:04 -0600

raconterunehistoire:

incidentalcomics:

Message to a Graduate

Graduation is looming…

"I am an undocumented immigrant at Stanford University."

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:28:31 -0600

"I am an undocumented immigrant at Stanford University.":

samraadeni:

I realized, post hoc, that I knew this wonderful, brave human being.

But if I didn’t, I’d want to say this to them: Dear friend, whoever you are, you’re not alone. You matter. You are on the right side of history and I hope one day we’ll be able to see reform and the right kind of justice in this country. In the meantime, keep on going. I just know that you are going to do incredible things for this country and for this world - I know you will. You write with honesty, passion, and a clear, compelling voice. You’re amazing. *hug*