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takenobullies: Is your status more important than their...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:02:58 -0500

Is your status more important than their feelings?

Take a few minutes to read over what you’re about to say on Facebook; is it making you look big and someone else look small?

We’ve been working on cyberbullying awareness, and we’re pretty happy with the results!

textsfromhillaryclinton: Original image by Diana Walker for...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:48:02 -0400

textsfromhillaryclinton:

Original image by Diana Walker for Time.

This is my favorite. Obviously.

25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes! (by wendyslookbook) I...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:32:33 -0400

25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes! (by wendyslookbook)

I love everything about this video from the execution to the inventive scarf ties to the ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE girl presenting it. A + +.

if and only if

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:05:11 -0400

npr: The meteoric rise of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:31:33 -0500

npr:

The meteoric rise of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has echoes of Tim Tebow, the Denver Broncos quarterback who caused such a stir last fall. Of course, Tebow was a college superstar at the University of Florida, while Lin played in relative obscurity at Harvard. But both began their pro careers as bench warmers. As their teams struggled, they were finally given a chance, and became overnight sensations as they turned their teams into winners. Here’s a rough comparison: Lin Vs. Tebow

Other similarities: I rely on NPR to explain to me why these dudes are culturally relevant. Now featuring data viz!

jtotheizzoe: The Science of Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:12:29 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

The Science of Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry

Tension, resolution, and the ever important “buildy-ness” (which is a term I invented but is accurate), these are the characteristics behind the most extreme emotional reactions to songs:

Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an “appoggiatura.”

An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”

Chills often descend on listeners at these moments of resolution. When several appoggiaturas occur next to each other in a melody, it generates a cycle of tension and release. This provokes an even stronger reaction, and that is when the tears start to flow.

There’s just about the most detailed scientific analysis of a Grammy-winning song ever at the link.

(via WSJ.com)

This is what Beyonce’s Halo does to me - I’m not musical at all, but I wonder if it has similar features.

John Cotton Dana’s 12 Rules for Reading

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:07:47 -0500

nevver:

   1. Read
   2. Read.
   3. Read some more.
   4. Read anything.
   5. Read about everything.
   6. Read enjoyable things.
   7. Read things you yourself enjoy.
   8. Read, and talk about it.
   9. Read very carefully, some things.
   10. Read on the run, most things.
   11. Don’t think about reading, but
   12. Just read.
Libraryland

I would also add 13. Don’t waste time judging the format, just use it all to read.

hoganhere: LADIES. OLDEST SIBLINGS. Tired. Aren’t you...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:31:20 -0500

hoganhere:

LADIES. OLDEST SIBLINGS.

Tired. Aren’t you tired?

(Re)watching the first season of Mad Men tonight, and so many things are like thorns in a woman’s side (all props to the writers, etc.) and then it got to the scene where the newly married Peter Campbell is just back from his honeymoon and takes a call in his office from his new wife asking him what he wants for dinner — and he suddenly realizes (and says to his fellow mad-man) DINNER WILL BE ON THE TABLE WAITING FOR ME WHEN I GET HOME.

This made me so incredibly depressed.

Maybe it’s because I’m 47 years old and Capricorn and the oldest sister to all my siblings — but man it makes you so tired being the one to make sure everyone is fed and all the cabinet doors are closed.

But oh man — we all work so hard.

LADIES — if you are with a dude, when was the last time you got home to a dinner (of any sort) waiting on you? Warming on the stove? Drying out on the oven? ANYTHING?

Cheese toast? Pop Tarts? Anything?

Bring it, dudes. It’s one of the friendliest things you can do for your pal.

And wipe up the crumbs and close the cabinets. Don’t make us clean up the wrapping paper to our own present. I mean — come on.

We’re beat to the core.

Χρόνια πολλά, dada

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:08 -0500

My dad was an awesome person. He worked hard his whole life, and sacrificed a lot of personal time, to build a life for himself and my mom; he raised my brothers as his own, and treated me like a princess (when he wasn’t riding my ass like a rodeo clown to work harder, think bigger, and be stronger). I got to know him so well in my twenties, and was able to recognize and cherish the twin coins of my personality - what I get from my mother, and what I get from him.

Today (February 9th, 2012) would have been his 72nd birthday, and it’s our third year without him here to celebrate it. I love looking through these photos, even though he usually hated poising for them, and seeing the great trips and dinners and weekends we spent together in the last ten years of his life (plus some vintage baby photos thrown in).

Miss you, buddy.

fuckyournoguchicoffeetable: Fuck your knit pouf. OH MY GOD I...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:42:54 -0500

fuckyournoguchicoffeetable:

Fuck your knit pouf.

OH MY GOD I HAVE A KNIT POUF. I have chills right now you guys.

nprradiopictures: (Joel Sartore/National Geographic) For Joel...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:46:28 -0500

A giant panda.

A Coquerel's sifaka.

A veiled chameleon.

nprradiopictures:

(Joel Sartore/National Geographic)

For Joel Sartore, it’s a race against the clock to photograph as many animals as he can — before it’s too late. Check out more of his photos and listen to the story at The Picture Show.

-Emily

I love love love all three of these guys.

On Hold

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:02:58 -0500

On Hold:

As usual, Christoph Niemann is awesome.

animalstalkinginallcaps: LET’S SEE, THE NASDAQ’S DOWN, IRAN’S...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:25:50 -0500

animalstalkinginallcaps:

LET’S SEE, THE NASDAQ’S DOWN, IRAN’S BEING A DICK, LABOR UNIONS ARE PRACTICALLY NONEXISTENT, CRIME’S UP ACROSS THE BOARD, ABORTION’S ILLEGAL AGAIN, MULTIPLE HOUSE FIRES IN THE CITY CENTER, GANG VIOLENCE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THE TERROR RAINBOW IS AT MAUVE, EVERYTHING IS A BOMB, THE ONLY THING THAT DOESN’T GIVE YOU CANCER IS ALMOND MILK BUT IT COSTS $94 A GALLON AND IT DOES GIVE YOU PARKINSON’S, THERE’S NO MORE CRUDE OIL, UZBEKISTAN HAS NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES, THE PRESIDENT’S A ROBOT KILLING MACHINE, POSSIBLE ALIEN INVASION IN NEW ZEALAND, THE BANKS HAVE STARTED REPOSSESSING HUMAN ORGANS TO PAY BACK OUTSTANDING LINES OF CREDIT, AND AIDS HAS MERGED WITH AVIAN FLU. BLAH BLAH BLAH. 87% POPULATION DECREASE IMMINENT. ETCETERA, ETCETERA. SOMETHING ABOUT TIDAL WAVES …

… OOOOOOH! DANCING WITH THE STARS STARTS UP AGAIN THIS WEEK! I LOVE THAT SHOW.

This is how I feel every morning over breakfast. EVERYTHING IS A BOMB.

boston: Gardner shows off its graceful update - When leaders of...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:15:21 -0500

boston:

Gardner shows off its graceful update

- When leaders of the 109-year-old Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum unveiled its $114 million addition yesterday, they did so with an eye toward the past.

nevver: Leaf-it, Post-its Yes to this.

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:14:04 -0500

nevver:

Leaf-it, Post-its

Yes to this.

heyoscarwilde: Season’s greetings. WALL-E and EVE illustration...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:54:41 -0500

heyoscarwilde:

Season’s greetings.

WALL-E and EVE illustration by Chie Yamamoto Boyd :: via usagihop.com

animalstalkinginallcaps: WHOA, CALM DOWN. WHAT HAPPENED? OH MY...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:53:15 -0500

animalstalkinginallcaps:

WHOA, CALM DOWN. WHAT HAPPENED?

OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH, IT WAS THE MOST HORRIBLE THING! I THINK I’M LITERALLY DYING! OH GOD!

JESUS, ARE YOU HURT? WAS IT HUNTERS? HAVE YOU BEEN SHOT?

NO, I READ AN ARTICLE ABOUT FACTORY FARMING! THOSE POOR PIGS!

… ARE YOU SERIOUS?

I THINK I’M HAVING A PANIC ATTACK!

christmas time is here

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:09:51 -0500

We got this little tree this year, marking the first year in our Sunset Park apartment that we’ve put up any kind of tree. It’s never seemed worth it - the dog would eat the needles, we’re never HERE for Christmas day anyway, etc etc etc.

But this year, I surprised by my own enjoyment in all the planning around Christmas (last year, not so much). I’ve enjoyed picking out little presents for each member of my and Stuart’s families, getting excited about traveling to England and experiencing someone else’s family traditions, listening to the same cheesy songs I’ve listened to since I was a kid. I guess I was expecting the pain of 2009 and the ache of 2010 to revisit in some new, cruel way but it’s mostly just a gentle, prodding longing, and a gratitude that I still have these wonderful memories of my Dad at Christmas and the life he helped me shape.

So I brought this little guy home yesterday and did him up good with some of our favorite smaller ornaments. I picked special ones, to represent this new feeling, that things are not exactly as they were around this holiday but that they are their own new experience. The beautiful see-through glass balls are from MoMA, a gift from my brother at our first Christmas together, and the eggs are all hand-painted from Germany, a gift from my parents that same year. All the wooden ornaments are mine from childhood. It seemed like a good mix.

He’s got no star on top but a ton of presents for the English family underneath (all my family’s presents are winging their way to Brasil where the rest of my people will be). There’s a set of tickets to a BAM show, a tradition Stuart and I started in the rough days of 2009 where Christmas didn’t feel quite right but we wanted to give ourselves something to look forward to in the new year. We saw the Tempest that winter, and King Lear last year, and Richard III this year. It’s a lovely tradition borne out of necessity and invention.

I’m happy with this exact amount of tree, and with this cautious new Christmas spirit. I didn’t think it’d be around for a few more years.

animalstalkinginallcaps: THIS? OH, YOU’RE SO SWEET. IT’S...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:56:08 -0500

animalstalkinginallcaps:

THIS? OH, YOU’RE SO SWEET. IT’S CHRISTIAN LACROIX. I WAS IN PARIS FOR A CONFERENCE AND I COULDN’T RESIST. I HAVE THESE PERFECT LITTLE PEARLS THAT DANE BOUGHT ME WHEN WE FIRST GOT MARRIED AND A CHANEL CLUTCH, PLUS THESE LITTLE YELLOW LOUBOUTINS THAT ARE ABSOLUTE MURDER ON MY ARCHES BUT GOD DO THEY LOOK DIVINE.

FINISH YOUR CHARDONNAY AND I’LL TAKE YOU UPSTAIRS AND SHOW YOU. YOU’LL LOVE THEM.

I am obsessed with this now.

Agreed.

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:53:54 -0400

Agreed.