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This is the most frustrating thing about the past week: My body doesn’t feel like mine...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:58:08 -0400

This is the most frustrating thing about the past week:

My body doesn’t feel like mine anymore. I can’t do anything without assistance. Everything I eat is monitored. My relatives gawk at my bruises and I feel like a goddamn freak show.

My story doesn’t feel like mine, either. My parents take my words and regurgitate them to visitors, relaying what happened as if they were witnesses. I get that this happened to them, too, but frankly it happened to me more. I was hit by a car; I was flown to the hospital; I was injected and x-rayed and passing out on the hospital bed.

I have become a public artifact.

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Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:25:43 -0400

"I’m often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:52:30 -0400

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I’m often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period. I don’t care about your economic background. I don’t care what town you’re born in, what city, what country. If you’re a child, you are curious about your environment. You’re overturning rocks. You’re plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you’re doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

And so then so what do adults do? They say, “Don’t pluck the petals off the flowers. I just spent money on that. Don’t play with the egg. It might break. Don’t….” Everything is a don’t. We spend the first year teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

So you get out of their way. And you know what you do? You put things in their midst that help them explore. Help ‘em explore. Why don’t you get a pair of binoculars, just leave it there one day? Watch ‘em pick it up. And watch ‘em look around. They’ll do all kinds of things with it.

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- Neil deGrasse Tyson (via senoranelson)

THIS. Applies to all children, even beyond those heading in the science fields.

(via handdrawnhero)

noraleah: I have to say that the single most important lesson...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:05:53 -0400

noraleah:

I have to say that the single most important lesson I learned in 25 years talking every single day to people was that there is a common denominator in our human experience. Most of us, I tell ya, we don’t want to be divided. What we want—the common denominator that I found in every single interview—is that we want to be validated. We want to be understood.

I’ve done over 35,000 interviews in my career, and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way ask this question: “was that ok?”

I heard it from President Bush. I heard it from President Obama. I’ve heard it from heroes and from housewives. I’ve heard it from victims and perpetrators of crime. I even heard it from BE-YON-CÉ in all of her Beyoncé-ness. She finishes performing, hands me the microphone, and says “was that ok?” [x]

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:36 -0400

mojosodope178: theamericankid: I tried speaking into my boss’s...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:29 -0400

mojosodope178:

theamericankid:

I tried speaking into my boss’s ear as I lightly touched his forearm when I asked for time off, and all I got was fired.

based on that last fact, i now realize that i am the hulk

delicious-food-porn: Follow for more food porn!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:04:13 -0400

delicious-food-porn:

Follow for more food porn!

collectyourhearts: the difference between pizza and your opinion is that i asked for pizza

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:41:49 -0400

collectyourhearts:

the difference between pizza and your opinion is that i asked for pizza

I am, I am, I am: I don’t want my significant other to care about the size of my breasts...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:22:22 -0400

I am, I am, I am: I don’t want my significant other to care about the size of my breasts...:

abackwardmap:

I don’t want my significant other to care about the size of my breasts or how nice my butt feels. I mean, I kind of do; but I want them to be preoccupied about other things.

For example, I want them to care about the fact that my body—this body!— has been the vessel of choice for the life I’ve…

roughkiss: foxheartx: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH. It was such a...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:10:38 -0400

roughkiss:

foxheartx:

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.

It was such a solid burn my mouth made a solid “O” shape. Holy crap. Holy crap.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:46:12 -0400

oh-libertine: My friend’s dad used to work on Kim Possible and one time we went with him to work...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:46:09 -0400

oh-libertine:

My friend’s dad used to work on Kim Possible and one time we went with him to work and I remembered how a classmate of mine had asked me once why Bonnie’s boobs were round and Kim’s were pointy so I asked my friend and her dad walked in and my friend immediately spun the question on him and I was like no wait stop but without even blinking he just said ‘because Kim’s are real’

hollowgrin: sqrt-1: awesomephilia: (via) F U C...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:58:29 -0400

hollowgrin:

sqrt-1:

awesomephilia:

(via)

F U C K ? ? H ? ? O N ?

F U C K Bi Tc He S Ge Tm O Ne Y

atribeoftrend: tropicm-ist: legit She waited… plotted…...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:58:06 -0400

atribeoftrend:

tropicm-ist:

legit

She waited… plotted… planned… For this moment…

im-just-a-match-in-water: toyoungtolivethisway: officialalltime...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:07:47 -0400

im-just-a-match-in-water:

toyoungtolivethisway:

officialalltimelow:

Press play and enjoy fuckers.

holy

At first I’m just like “it’s fucking clapping, I don’t ca-” and then he began to sing and I took in such a deep breath my uncle had to make sure I was ok.

maybe I’m a total wimp but I’ve been breaking down in tears every day and this is just...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:00:27 -0400

maybe I’m a total wimp but I’ve been breaking down in tears every day and this is just really hard for me

ok so i wanna believe that life is trying to teach me a lesson but this is a rly hard lesson

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:06:02 -0400

ok so i wanna believe that life is trying to teach me a lesson but

this is a rly hard lesson

adiostoreador: the-absolute-funniest-posts: engage-with-zorp: I...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:12:22 -0400

adiostoreador:

the-absolute-funniest-posts:

engage-with-zorp:

I majored in gif making.

this is so sad

between the first and last days of college, he lost his sight, his friends, and his smile

flymetothemooninthetardis: slutsy: ok since christmas is over lets just skip to summer in...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:25:34 -0400

flymetothemooninthetardis:

slutsy:

ok since christmas is over lets just skip to summer

in Australia christmas is in summer