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9 years ago
Expression BlueOracleNSFW Impressive Portrait Film Photography by Marcellus Cruz
Marcellus Cruz is a 22-year-old Brazil-based photographer who is living and working in Porto Alegre. He has been shooting portrait mostly on film, especially loves to experiment with a lot of damaged-film photography methods to make his works more arty.
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9 years ago
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How Studying Bats Could Make the World Safer for Humans
Most animal-health research focuses on infections that have already made the leap to people. That may be too late. A more effective use of time and money, they say, would be to focus on wildlife diseases before they spread to livestock, and livestock diseases before they spread to people.
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9 years ago
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Bic Says Sorry for Telling Women to 'Think Like a Man'
Amid a storm of protest that the ad was sexist, Bic South Africa retracted the post and issued an apology. The company had posted the message with a photo of a smiling female model on its Facebook page on Sunday, the anniversary of a 1956 march led by women who were protesting the country's white minority rule at the time.
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9 years ago
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Chatty Marmosets Have Something To Say About Vocal Learning
Scientists have found that marmosets have the capability to learn calls from their parents. Studying the small monkeys may provide insights into developmental disorders in humans, like autism.
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9 years ago
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Menstruation is a global health problem – and we need to talk about it
Donald Trump got menstruation onto the front page of the New York Times. With the taboo broken, it's a good time to talk about how all girls everywhere can manage their periods safely and privately.
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9 years ago
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75+ Best Coloring Books for Adults
Coloring books aren’t just for kids anymore. Grown-ups have been seeking out advanced level coloring books as a sort of cheap &qout;coloring therapy.&qout; Want to de-stress? Try one of these 75 amazing coloring books for adults.
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9 years ago
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Manual techniques used to produce furniture
Boca do Lobo design pieces are all handmade in Portugal with manual techniques that aren’t much used in this industrial world.
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9 years ago
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Thou still unravished bride of quietness
Hyper-realistic paintings by Gregory Thielker.
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Would You Rather Lose Your Morals or Your Memory?
A new study sheds light on a common side effect of dementia—the loss of morals. Strohminger’s research depends in part on an extremely rare type of brain cell, the spindle neuron. Outside of the sharpest mammals, like dolphins, elephants, and great apes, no other animal shares them with us.
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9 years ago
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North Korea vice-premier Choe Yong-gon 'executed'
South Korea's government says it is monitoring reports that North Korea's vice-premier Choe Yong-gon was killed in May on the orders of Kim Jong-un. Mr Choe was executed after he "expressed discomfort against the young leader's forestation policy", South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports. Close to 70 officials have been killed under Kim Jong-un's rule, Yonhap says.
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9 years ago
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20% of New York Students Opted Out of Standardized Tests, Officials Say
Twenty percent of New York State’s third through eighth graders sat out at least one of New York’s standardized tests this year, state education officials said Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.
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9 years ago
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Fine Art Photography Awards Winners
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Fine Art Photography Awards Winners
Previously this week, we discovered the winners of National Geographic Traveller Photos Contest. Now it’s the turn of the Fine Art Photography Awards to announce its prize list among more than 3,000 submissions from 77 countries. Discover a selection below and all winners on the competition’s online gallery.
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9 years ago
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Don’t Believe the Hype: David Foster Wallace and The End of the Tour
I saw the film on a Saturday morning in New York City the day after it opened. The theater wasn’t crowded at all; the vibe was mellow and subdued. I chuckled several times throughout the film, but I didn’t hear anyone else laughing. The experience was like sipping warm Earl Grey tea while someone tells you a long and sometimes unintentionally funny story in a comfortable if awkward living room.
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9 years ago
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Sofia Vergara to play Bart's teacher on 'The Simpsons'
Bart Simpson is going to get schooled by Sofia Vergara. Vergara will play Mrs. Berrera, whom Bart falls for after drinking a milk substitute filled with bad hormones, leading him to experience early puberty — including growing a mustache.
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9 years ago
It's crazy to think about, isn't it? I knew a lady who euthanized her dog because he was 'too much trouble.' He was a little dachshund, only around a year old. I can understand not being able to keep a pet, but why euthanize it? Why not give it to someone else? I know that's not always possible, but it was in this case. It was a young and healthy dog. I don't think I spoke to her after that. I didn't know about this until it was already done. :(
I wouldn't want to be a vet. The whole job sounds horrible. I volunteered at a veterinary hospital in high school because I was considering becoming a vet, and it was not fun. The vet I worked with was so cynical and burned out it was awful to see. You are expected to care for innocent animals, but to do so you have to ask people for money that they may not have, and then what? Veterinary costs can be as much, if not more, than healthcare costs for people. This is a real problem. I did actually have a vet who committed suicide. :(
This was more depressing than I meant it to be. Sorry!
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9 years ago
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Before the Band-Aid, People Used Honey and Sugar to Wrap Wounds
Blood is a terrible thing to waste, and for centuries, the ways to stop blood from leaving the body were inefficient at best and not exactly easy to use. But it wasn’t until 1920, when the First World War was long over, that we finally had an effective bandage for simple injuries that didn’t need to be stitched.
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Rust & Sunshine: Shrinky Bracelet
If you grew up in the 80's, like I did, you're probably already familiar with the awesomeness that is Shrinky Dinks...but did you know that you can still buy Shrinky Dinks? Yep, they're still out there - in craft stores, hobby shops, and even on Amazon. But you don't have to buy a Shrinky Dink kit to have all the fun. Just look for #6 plastic containers and you can make your own!
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9 years ago
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How Dada Dynamited the Old Art World
Born in Europe amid the insanity of World War I, Dada was an art movement like no other—it rejected reason and agendas and embraced absurdism wherever it found it.
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When is it ethical to euthanize your pet?
In the past, owners were quick to put their pets down. Now, with many viewing pets as family members, are they waiting too long?
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9 years ago
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Education as a Political Institution (1916)
"Education should not aim at a dead awareness of static facts, but at an activity directed toward the world that our efforts are to create." - Bertrand Russell, June, 1916. No political theory is adequate unless it is applicable to children as well as to men and women. Theorists are mostly childless, or, if they have children, they are carefully screened from the disturbances which would be caused by youthful turmoil.
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9 years ago
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Confronting Mortality In An Unsettling, Inspiring 'Tour Of Bones'
Before her death in 2014, author Denise Inge took a spiritual journey to bone houses throughout Europe. Lots of us are afraid to confront the things lurking in our basements. In mine, it's the spider crickets; in Denise Inge's, it was the bones, piles of human bones that reached almost to the ceiling of the stone cellar beneath her house.
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9 years ago
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The Kindness Of Strangers Connects A Poet To Her Own Grief
Poet Elizabeth Alexander's new book is a memoir of her life with her husband, who died three years ago. During her book tour, readers began giving her keepsakes that help her work through her grief.
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9 years ago
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Watch This Leaping Great White Shark Get Some Serious Air
This awesome video shows a shark jumping out of the water like a rocket. What can we learn from a video analysis? Normal humans think this is cool, but what does a physicist see? We see a projectile motion problem. Yes, for any object that has a motion that is due to the gravitational force only physicists call that projectile motion. Great, but what can we do?
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