to seek a newer world

“Maeghan Hadley, of One Day Ranch pet rescue, checks over...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:00 -0400

“Maeghan Hadley, of One Day Ranch pet rescue, checks over a kitten pulled from under the rubble of a mobile home destroyed by Sunday’s tornado in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, near Shawnee, Okla., on May 20, 2013.” (Sue Ogrocki / AP)

dionthesocialist: Sometimes, I wish I could ban my students from saying the word “gay” unless we’re...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:52 -0400

dionthesocialist:

Sometimes, I wish I could ban my students from saying the word “gay” unless we’re specifically talking about homosexual people. Today one kid said that the ceiling was gay. Ceiling can’t be gay. Ceiling can’t even be straight. Ceiling is ceiling. Ceiling’s sexual preference is light bulb.

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“Do you mind if I tell you a story? One you might not have...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:22:37 -0400

“Do you mind if I tell you a story? One you might not have heard? All the elements in your body were forged many, many millions of years ago in the heart of a faraway star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so, so many millions of years these elements came together to form new stars and new planets, and on and on it went. The elements came together and burst apart, forming shoes and ships and ceiling wax, and cabbages and kings. Until, eventually, they came together to make you.”

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"Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:33 -0400

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Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices. Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.

In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other. Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.

In contrast, most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets interfere with intuitive navigation of a text and inhibit people from mapping the journey in their minds.

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- Scientific American explores the reading brain in the digital age. Also see the death of the book through the ages, the publishing world on future of print and writers on the future of books. (via explore-blog)

thefrogman: Flirting Techniques by Caro Ramsey [website |...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:46 -0400

thefrogman:

Flirting Techniques by Caro Ramsey [website | twitter]

safe-behind-bars: IM SHARING THIS FUCKING TWICE IN A ROW...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:17:49 -0400

safe-behind-bars:

IM SHARING THIS FUCKING TWICE IN A ROW BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW PERFECT THIS IS.

lyndsayfaye: wemakeourownmovies: I love the Waterstones...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:17:21 -0400

lyndsayfaye:

wemakeourownmovies:

I love the Waterstones Twitter so goddam much

This makes sense.

rpgmaker: thatbatterisaspy: hairandbeardkommando: punks not...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:49:17 -0400

rpgmaker:

thatbatterisaspy:

hairandbeardkommando:

punks not dead

Heosemys spinosa is an endangered species.

punks almost dead

It is no secret that dogs dressed as other animals is my absolute favorite thing in the world.

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:12:00 -0400

It is no secret that dogs dressed as other animals is my absolute favorite thing in the world.

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“Let’s imagine 1,000 kids go to a water park. They have as much...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:02:09 -0400

“Let’s imagine 1,000 kids go to a water park. They have as much as 10 grams of feces on their rear ends,” she said. “We are now talking about 10,000 grams or 10 kg. That translates to 24 pounds of poop in the water.”

architizer: Check Out This Playful Playground!

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:55:30 -0400

Photo: Katsuhisa Kida. Ring Around a Tree by Tezuka Architects. 2011.

Photo: Katsuhisa Kida. Ring Around a Tree by Tezuka Architects. 2011.

Photo: Katsuhisa Kida. Ring Around a Tree by Tezuka Architects. 2011.

Photo: Katsuhisa Kida. Ring Around a Tree by Tezuka Architects. 2011.

Photo: Katsuhisa Kida. Ring Around a Tree by Tezuka Architects. 2011.

architizer:

Check Out This Playful Playground!

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:53:10 -0400

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

- Abraham Lincoln (via emergentpattern)

toothpastecomics: Expert opinions. from Toothpaste For...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:49:33 -0400

toothpastecomics:

Expert opinions. from Toothpaste For Dinner

AL.com

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Tue, 14 May 2013 17:22:00 -0400