February 2012
20 posts
Can someone be a doll and help me answer the...
rachellie:
All of the following are true of neurons, except that:
A) when mature, they lose the ability to divide
B) they conduct a nervous impulse
C) they are composed of a soma and axon
D) they are a very specialized form of connective tissue
Problem is I believe all of the answers are true, which obviously isn’t correct and which is why I’m asking you guys.
Check out sources that...
Comic Books & Medicine →
I really, really want to attend this.
Reflection
There comes a time when you need to spend a week in solitude thinking about all the things you experienced, accomplished, failed at throughout your life to figure out how it all connects - and how it will bring forth some growth and exciting plans for the future. This will happen all next week. Thinking about these things.
Ohio
Religion
Dysfunctional Family History
Dance
Girl Scouts
Science...
ubbelohde home: Working the Ruins →
ubbelohdehomej:
Working the Ruins From some of the leading feminist scholars in education comes a collection of writings discussing how they use feminist poststructural theory in their classrooms and research. Drawing on real-life situations in their work, they show how using this theory has transformed their…
Newsweek: Madonna & Patti Smith, BFF's [A Tumblr... →
newsweek:
By Jacob Bernstein
In the new movie W.E., which Madonna wrote and directed, Abbie Cornish plays a young woman named Wally Winthrop who’s stuck in a bad marriage, and has a kind of imaginary, sister-sister, platonic affair with Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), the American woman King…
“I thought I had made it when I was 30,” Glass says. “I was in New York; I had my...”
– In which Philip Glass gives advice to those kids in Two Lights Band (via flavorpill)
“Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each...”
– Pema Chodron (via rebeccaketchum)
January 2012
38 posts
Buying New Experiences, Not Things, Tied to... →
psychotherapy:
via Psych Central:
A new study suggests that those who spend money to do things are happier than those who spend their money on possessions.
In the study, investigators determined extraverts and people who are open to new experiences are more apt to spend more of their disposable income on experiences, such as concert tickets or a weekend away, rather than hitting the mall...
Shoes & Boots
Hung up my improv shoes
for books and academia
Hard choice - Fulfilling choice
Proud of my friends still in those shoes
but walking in suede boots now
Two teens from Toronto sent a Lego man into space... →
scinerds:
into-the-universe:
Image from The Gazette (Montreal)
This is amazing. Watch and read.
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and...”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
crooked indifference: Feminist texts written by... →
mylifeasafeminista:
This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me. Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list. Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go…
BOMB Magazine: How to Live Safely Inside a Black... →
andrearosen:
showsmyboyfriendtookmeto:
they give you a little book with a picture of a llama in it and tell you to open and close your eyes while people move into still poses. you can keep the book.
Important new Tumblr in which a girlfriend recaps performance art shows her boyfriend takes her to see.
A Story Inspired by the word "Inflammation" (A G+...
I’m on a four hour and thirty minute flight from NYC to Las Vegas. My assigned seat is 36B. B means in the middle. This gives me pause as I will be the closest I’ve been to most individuals in terms of physical space, despite intimate relationships and close friends, than all social situations require. Still, I’m always curious. Who will random happenstance place in my path on a...
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far...”
– Thomas Wolfe, God’s Lonely Man (via nickmiller)
Brooklyn Brainery: Awesome January Class: The... →
bkbrains:
$45
Three Thursdays, 1/19, 1/26, and 2/2, 6:30-8:00pm
Music is a part of all of our lives in one way or another. But what makes up music? Why does it speak to us the way it does? How does it connect human beings?
The Heart of Music will explore these questions and many, many more….