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saotome-michi: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown RIP (June 25,...

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 09:41:26 -0400

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
RIP (June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018)

Thank you for showing us the world.

macadameia: “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun,...

Fri, 25 May 2018 22:29:50 -0400

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”

— Brené Brown, Rising Strong

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Tue, 22 May 2018 08:55:26 -0400

philosophybits: “Life has no meaning a priori. Before you come alive, life is nothing; it is up to...

Sat, 19 May 2018 11:43:31 -0400

philosophybits:

“Life has no meaning a priori. Before you come alive, life is nothing; it is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

siorca: “Too many young girls don’t know how to act when someone’s being inappropriate with them....

Tue, 15 May 2018 11:11:57 -0400

siorca:

“Too many young girls don’t know how to act when someone’s being inappropriate with them. They giggle or they try to brush it off. Don’t do that. Tell them to go fuck themselves - be a bitch. If someone’s being disrespectful to you, be disrespectful right back. Show them the same amount of respect that they show you.”

— Wise words from my mom

quotemadness: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than...

Thu, 10 May 2018 18:45:34 -0400

quotemadness:

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

— Dale Carnegie

theinspirationjourney: “The only way to save a rhinoceros is to...

Tue, 08 May 2018 23:16:08 -0400

theinspirationjourney:

“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.“ David Attenborough

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Fri, 27 Apr 2018 23:39:36 -0400

browndresswithwhitedots: “A good way to judge a person’s character is by how willing they are to...

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:16:06 -0400

browndresswithwhitedots:

“A good way to judge a person’s character is by how willing they are to apologize when they know they’re wrong. In my experience, strong people don’t usually have a problem saying they’re sorry and admitting they’re to blame. I think it has something to do with feeling confident they can fix those mistakes. The person who can’t or won’t apologize has little faith in their ability to fix whatever it is they’ve gotten wrong or messed up.”

— Jonathan Carroll

ultrajchapmanstuff: mikedawwwson: Why Did They Come? TOO...

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:11:18 -0400

ultrajchapmanstuff:

mikedawwwson:

Why Did They Come?

TOO FUCKIN’ phenomenal to NOT reblog!!!!

seraphim-prime: caffeinatedmusing: 1. L’ange du mal by Joseph...

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:05:39 -0400

seraphim-prime:

caffeinatedmusing:

1. L’ange du mal by Joseph Geefs

2. Le genie du mal by Guillaume Geefs

Here’s the wiki article on them.

Good

suggestivecacti: “When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying...

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:54:46 -0400

suggestivecacti:

“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lamppost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: “it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks.” And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it. When I read this letter of Van Gogh’s it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *academical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on. But the moment I read Van Gogh’s letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it. And Van Gogh’s little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care.”

— Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit (via raggedybearcat)

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Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:39:13 -0400

6 TED-Ed lessons to watch on International Women’s Day

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:48:01 -0500

teded:

Happy International Women’s Day! Here’s a list of TED-Ed Lessons to watch as you celebrate all of the world’s women, past and present.
The genius of Marie Curie: Marie Skłodowska Curie’s revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. But what did she actually do? Shohini Ghose expounds on some of Marie Skłodowska Curie’s most revolutionary discoveries.
The contributions of female explorers: During the Victorian Age, women were unlikely to become great explorers, but a few intelligent, gritty and brave women made major contributions to the study of previously little-understood territory. Courtney Stephens examines three women – Marianne North, Mary Kingsley and Alexandra David-Néel – who wouldn’t take no for an answer (and shows why we should be grateful that they didn’t).
Equality, sports and Title IX: In 1972, U.S. Congress passed Title IX, a law which prohibited discrimination against women in schools, colleges, and universities — including school-sponsored sports. Before this law, female athletes were few and far between, and funding was even scarcer. Erin Buzuvis and Kristine Newhall explore the significance and complexity of Title IX.
The true story of Sacajawea: In the early 19th century, a young Agaidika teenager named Sacajawea was enlisted by explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to aid her husband Toussaint Charbonneau as a guide to the Western United States. Karen Mensing debunks some of the myths that surround the familiar image of the heroic woman with a baby strapped to her back and a vast knowledge of the American wilderness.
Why should you read Virginia Woolf?: How best can we understand the internal experience of alienation? In both her essays and her fiction, Virginia Woolf shapes the slippery nature of subjective experience into words, while her characters frequently lead inner lives that are deeply at odds with their external existence. Iseult Gillespie helps make sense of these disparities to prepare you for the next time you read Virgina Woolf.
The pharaoh that wouldn’t be forgotten: Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh during the New Kingdom in Egypt. Twenty years after her death, somebody smashed her statues, took a chisel and attempted to erase the pharaoh’s name and image from history. But who did it? And why? Kate Green investigates Hatshepsut’s history for clues to this ancient puzzle.

philosophybits: “Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it...

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 08:34:58 -0500

philosophybits:

“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality

thehalfbloodbriton: “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a...

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:14:03 -0500

thehalfbloodbriton:

“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend”

-Freddie Mercury (5 September 1946 - 24 November 1991)

sanssa: And I...

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:47:23 -0500

sanssa:

And I won’t let you tear me down.

flaubertian: The ‘Mud Angel’ volunteers rescue artworks in the...

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:16:09 -0500

flaubertian:

The ‘Mud Angel’ volunteers rescue artworks in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, 1966

“Overnight on 4 and 5 November 1966, the River Arno broke over its banks and flooded Florence, leaving one ton of mud for every person in the city and devastating the Renaissance city’s artistic and historical treasures. Churches, museums and libraries, all filled with works of art, were inundated with mud, to a depth in some places of 22ft. Young people, arriving from across the Continent, immediately began showing up to help. They became known to the Florentines as gli angeli del fango, ‘the Mud Angels’.

Throughout the winter of 1966-67, young volunteers kept arriving to help clean up Florence. Many of these were Italian, but a significant number came from further afield. They cleaned mud out of the Basilica di Santa Croce, carried priceless paintings out of the Uffizi galleries and brought food and fresh water to the elderly Florentines trapped in their upper-floor apartments. These youthful workers were not organised, nor had they been recruited. They simply turned up. Young Europeans dropped what they were doing and boarded trains or drove south. Many had already been on the road, backpacking around Europe, and simply rearranged their itinerary to spend time in Tuscany.

There was a tremendous turnover in the winter months. Some Mud Angels stayed a few days, others a few weeks. They listened to the latest music while working, smoked cigarettes on their breaks and had only a little energy left for carousing at night. Because of the polyglot nature of the young workers, the archivists and preservationists had to devise a colour-coded card system to track and process each item. It is unclear just how many Mud Angels there were in total, or even exactly where they had come from. There were probably only a few thousand of them at most, yet, given their mythic status in Italy, one would think the number was ten times that.

Mireille Bazin from the northern French city of Reims came down with 30 other art students during their holiday break. Another French visitor, William Michaut, commented that ‘despite the language barrier, we lived in intense communion’. Ignacio Serrano Garcia from Valladolid in Spain said that he and the other Mud Angels came to Florence out of a sense of duty to its great cultural heritage, while Riccardo Lanza from Milan recalls the harmony among the young cohorts:
‘It was something already present in our generation … with more or less means, [we] had travelled in Italy and abroad and had often relied on the solidarity between us.’

The Mud Angels of 1966 were an expression of the internationalist instincts, transnational travel and generational solidarity that had developed out of the new-found postwar mobility of the youth of western Europe. In the decade and a half after the Florentine Mud Angels, mass youth travel in Europe developed into the kind of cultural form of travel that flourishes today, complete with rail passes, guidebooks and backpacks. Contact between young Europeans grew, helping to build new connections across borders.” [source]

scientificphilosopher: via: Tysonism

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 11:31:26 -0500

scientificphilosopher:

via: Tysonism

zenpencils: MARCUS AURELIUS: A meditation

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:22:13 -0500

zenpencils:

MARCUS AURELIUS: A meditation