The entire evolution of the moon is a story of catastrophes.
— Carl Sagan
Occipital Lobe. Doctor says headaches in this part of the brain are usually injury/stress-related and I should probably chill out (since I didn’t have an injury). In other news, got a new drug to try for unilateral vascular migraines!
It’s a well known fact that all the cool people get migraines.
White people lack empathy for brown people, brain research shows
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the UofT research team, led by PhD student Jennifer Gutsell and Assistant Professor Dr. Michael Inzlicht, found that participants’ motor cortex was significantly less likely to fire when they watched the visible minority men perform the simple task. In some cases when participants watched the non-white men performing the task, their brains actually registered as little activity as when they watched a blank screen…
The trend was even more pronounced for participants who scored high on a test measuring subtle racism, says Gutsell.
Ohh…would love to do a test like that…
(Source: darkjez)
ad astra per aspera: 17.01.2012
I thought travelling would make me bolder. I seem to have become shyer.
I am comfortable exploring by myself, and going for adventures when no one is looking. (Especially to places with interesting names and interesting artefacts; last week I discovered the Queen’s Butt, which is not what it…
This sounds, oh, so very familiar.
I hope whatever you plan, or don’t plan, turns out beautiful and inspiring and lovely. And I wish I wasn’t so tired, so I could express in words all the things that I want to say but that are only emotions.
I am the hero of my story,
not the teacher, not a supporting
character.
My task is not to be perfect,
but to get perfect. To learn,
not to teach. To take, not to give.
This is my journey;
A hero’s journey.
(Source: silent-musings)
(Source: aladdinsdick)
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(Reblogged from jadedhippy)
One of the smartest things the Nazis did was to co-opt rationality and to co-opt hope. The way they did that was by making it so that at every step of the way it was in the Jews’ rational, best interest not to resist.
Would you rather get an ID card or would you rather resist and possibly get killed? Do you want to go to a ghetto or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? Do you want to get on a cattle car or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? Do you want to take a shower or do you want to resist and possibly get killed?
Every step of the way, it was in their rational best interest to not resist. But I’ll tell you something really interesting: The Jews who participated in the Warsaw ghetto uprising had a much higher rate of survival than those who went along. We need to keep that in mind over the next ten years.
Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
(Source: solitaryforager)
(via Latino Rebels)
Whoa, now. That’s a little too true to go viral
Paranoid Parrot
This isn’t paranoia, friend. It’s preparedness.
All the time. Also discreetly check over my shoulder to see if people who have passed me keep walking or are turning around.
The View From My Brain: do you ever info-dump on yourself? Is there a name for this I just don't know?
It feels like I’m writing a mental diary entry, or having a one-sided conversation with someone who never responds. I’ll start doing it without realizing it while I’m pacing around or sitting on my bed or when I’m trying to fall asleep.
It’s…
I rarely do this with “myself”. That is, I’m alone, but it’s usually in the form of a conversation (thought it’s actually just a thinly disguised monologue) with people, real or imaginary. Sometimes it’s good, and helps me with conclusions, closure or contemplation. Sometimes it’s not so good, and I end up yelling at (imaginary) people for things they probably wouldn’t say or do or think, just because I’ve had an (imaginary) conversations so many times that I’ll be furious about things that haven’t actually happen. Which I’m guessing is just my way of dealing with pent up frustrations that need to go somewhere lest they make my brain implode.
“Let go! Let go of my hair!” (from The Magician’s Nephew). Guess it could have been worse, and this can be taken in so many ways.crapheadslaphead-deactivated201:
“She finally yanked the body apart, pressing her lips to the cunt, which she greedily devoured.”
“Let’s hope this will do the job!”
20. The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep.
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentry into society.
“Out of control.”
Fuck yeah it better be.
“explorare novos, quae vento accesserit oras,”
Awwwww yeah.
God, no, thought Stevie.
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‘Please!’ he cried, still trying to pretend that he was an innocent victim, just passing by.
um.
…is, well. This is Ryan.”
Yes please~
“The man who does not know sick women does not know women”
…I’m reading “The Madwoman in the Attic”. xD I can only interpret this as meaning that, what, no man will ever fuck me because I’m mentally ill? Good that I only want girls, then.
“Because otherwise the guy’ll always have something over my head.”
Hmm. ._.
“Cnicus bendictus (also known as carduus benedictus), Blessed Thistle.”
… hm. Why do I have a herbal lying here?
“This is a terrible business, Miss Knox.”
I… oh. That doesn’t bode well. From Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves.
‘Personally I would imagine that to be the sole advantage of marrying a widower,’ said Amelia Robinson.
Who’d have thought. Want to come to the wedding? There’ll be sheep.
(Source: loveclaire)
