June 2011
1 tag
Anonymous asked: super disappointed in the lack of updates over the past months.
1 tag
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,...”
– George Washington Carver
1 tag
New Birth Control for Men: 100% effective for 10...
When it comes to birth control, it’s a lot harder figuring out how to stop a bajillion little sperm than one little egg, but a scientist in India has managed to develop an injection for men that has so far proven to be 100% effective and completely reversible with no side effects. Sign me up.
The injection is called RISUG, which stands for “reversible inhibition of sperm under...
May 2011
1 tag
Watch
Rather than perform LP2’s first single, “Calgary,” which most have heard a few times by now, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon mixed it up for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon by unleashing a cover of 1991 Bonnie Raitt hit “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” garnished by a dash of her 1989 single “Nick of Time.” What’s more, he opened with the Leon Russell-penned Donny Hathaway song “A Song For You” for the gorgeous...
Anonymous asked: Who'd win, zombies or pirates?
1 tag
The Optimism Bias
We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. On average, we expect things to turn out better than they wind up being. People hugely underestimate their chances of getting divorced, losing their job or being diagnosed with cancer; expect their...
1 tag
“I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
– Mae West
Letters of Note →
Site of the day.
Anonymous asked: I am completely and utterly in love with your blog.
1 tag
1 tag
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and...
Anonymous asked: Rooting for you N! Kill some midterms.
-Carbo
-Carbo
1 tag
The Burning House →
Site of the day.
yourejustafly asked: Where have you been?? I live for your blog updates. Don't leave us!
1 tag
“I really thought that love would save us all.”
– John Lennon
1 tag
Scientists Create All-Female Species of Lizard
Researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard, mimicking a process that has happened naturally in the past but has never been directly observed.
“It’s recreating the events that lead to new species,” said cell biologist Peter Baumann of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, whose new species is described May 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “It relates...
