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"The social experience that most reliably predicted whether an HIV-positive gay man would die..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:03:14 -0400

“The social experience that most reliably predicted whether an HIV-positive gay man would die quickly, Cole found, was whether or not he was in the closet. Closeted men infected with HIV died an average of two to three years earlier than out men. When Cole dosed AIDS-infected white blood cells with norepinephrine, a stress hormone, the virus replicated itself three to ten times faster than it did in non-dosed cells.”

- The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You | New Republic

Castagno. Detail from Queen Tomyris, 15th Century. Tomyris was...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:00:52 -0400

Castagno. Detail from Queen Tomyris, 15th Century.

Tomyris was a Queen who reigned over the Massagetae, a pastoral-nomadic Iranic people of Central Asia, East of the Caspian Sea, in approximately 530 BC. It is recorded that she defeated and killed the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great during his invasion and attempted conquest of her country.

Cyrus was killed and Tomyris had his corpse beheaded and then crucified, and shoved his head into a wineskin filled with human blood. She was reportedly quoted as saying, “I warned you that I would quench your thirst for blood, and so I shall”.

howdoiputthisgently:

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:42:03 -0400

howdoiputthisgently:

johnholm: Ocean’s door

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:20:22 -0400

johnholm:

Ocean’s door

humansofnewyork: “Don’t look to other people for validation....

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:20:59 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“Don’t look to other people for validation. Your birth was your validation.”

humansofnewyork: “I’m trying to stay in the present and not...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:16:43 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“I’m trying to stay in the present and not worry so much about the future.”
“What specifically about the future do you worry about?”
“You know, things, like… am I going to be alone?”

(San Francisco, CA)

humansofnewyork: An article I wrote for my good friends...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:11:28 -0400

humansofnewyork:

An article I wrote for my good friends at Bettery Magazine detailing my experience in Iran, and the admitted absurdity of my initial expectations: http://bit.ly/14kLP9G

feistie: A kid was walking around school wearing this today and...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:48:57 -0400

feistie:

A kid was walking around school wearing this today and didn’t receive a single comment from administration.

Meanwhile, I was pulled over twice by them to mention how “incredibly short” my bottoms were.

Last time I checked, my shorts don’t reference blowjobs.

Quit sexualizing things that aren’t meant to be suggestive.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 22:53:34 -0400

nailgasm: Nature at your fingertips. Once upon a time I was...

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:44:34 -0400

nailgasm:

Nature at your fingertips.

Once upon a time I was obsessed with miniature terrariums. I thought I’d transfer that idea to my nails. There’s no way I could wear these very long, especially not to work tomorrow. But I’m still having fun looking at them!

CND– Perfectly Bare
Nubar– Swiss Chocolate
OPI– Jade is the New Black
Sand, rocks, reindeer moss and dried flowers

Musings by Samsaran: Illusion: The Deceit of Maya

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:50:27 -0400

Musings by Samsaran: Illusion: The Deceit of Maya:

samsaranmusing:

Illusion il·lu·sion [ih-loo-zhuhn] noun 1. something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.

We Buddhists talk often of the world of illusion, the world of forms, the world of Samsara or the deception of Maya. What do we mean by this? How can we say that the…

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Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:42 -0400

32 Moving Tips That Will Make Your Life So Much Easier

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:48:16 -0400

32 Moving Tips That Will Make Your Life So Much Easier

New forensic technique for estimating time of death by checking internal clock of the human brain - Science - News - The Independent

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:01:55 -0400

New forensic technique for estimating time of death by checking internal clock of the human brain - Science - News - The Independent:

People with depression were not synchronized to the usual solar day in terms of this gene activity. It’s as if they were living in a different time zone than the one they died in,” he said.

shanellpapp: Funeral Home Ad from Japan Link

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:56:10 -0400

shanellpapp:

Funeral Home Ad from Japan

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poboh: Untitled, Alena Vykulilová. Czech, born in 1953,

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:48:51 -0400

poboh:

Untitled, Alena Vykulilová. Czech, born in 1953,　

From:...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:36:37 -0400

From: http://www.stravaiging.com/history/ancient/site/tigh-na-cailleach

The Tigh na Cailleach is a fascinating place. Hidden away in a remote glen west of Glen Lyon, it’s a small turf-roofed “house” which is home to a “family” of water-worn stones known as the Cailleach (old woman), the Bodach (old man), the Nighean (daughter) and further children. It is thought to be an ancient shrine to the cult of the Mother Goddess.

Each spring the family are brought out of their house, and each October they are returned for the winter before Samhain a tradition that has been going on certainly for hundreds of years, but possibly even thousands.

Shielings nearby were still in use until after 1782 and the inhabitants would re-thatch the Cailleach’s house, repair the walls and bring the family out to watch over their herds. When the herds moved back down for the winter the family would be sealed up in the house until the following year.

Later, after farming methods changed, a succession of local shepherds or gamekeepers continued the practice. The most recent that I know of was Bob Bissett, head stalker on the Invermeran estate, who died a few years ago, however someone else is still bringing the family out each year.

Legend has is that the Cailleach gives birth to a new child every hundred years. Writing in 1888, Duncan Campbell said that there were 12 stones, although this may have been said to give the site a Christian spin, associating it with a St Meuran (probably St Mirin) and his eleven disciples. Today there are 7 stones in total.

"there’s always another way to do anything, especially when you can’t fully access your own clearest..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:17:54 -0400

“there’s always another way to do anything, especially when you can’t fully access your own clearest thoughts.”

- art for housewives | towards a change in lifestyle

"One hot afternoon, researcher Giacomo Rizzolatti and team, were working with monkeys when they..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:15:39 -0400

“One hot afternoon, researcher Giacomo Rizzolatti and team, were working with monkeys when they decided it was time for a gelato break. In the lab, joyfully eating their ice-cream, they totally forgot about the monkeys. The monkeys, still hooked-up to brain activity monitors, registered pleasure as they observed the pleasure of the ice-cream eating researchers. And that’s how, serendipitously, mirror neurons were discovered. Mirror neurons are brain cells that respond, with mimicry, to the actions of others. This reaction, generally, is known as empathy.”

- art for housewives | towards a change in lifestyle

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Sun, 05 May 2013 02:58:45 -0400