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sixpennybook:

Do you feel a gnawing guilt over all the spines you’ve cracked, all the pages you’ve dog-eared? Oh, the books that have suffered for your love!
Now you can assuage your conscience with the Adopt-A-Book program from the Smithsonian Libraries. Through the program, you can choose a damaged or deteriorating book and provide for its conservation. Don’t you want to preserve that old book smell for the ages?

What a cool idea!

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So many people created ingenious solutions to identifying, mass producing and delivering penicillin. Doctors, research scientists, chemical engineers … the list goes on. Absolutely changed the world. Thank you all!

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9gag:

Books and life.

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13 most SEXUALLY AWKWARD Batman moments…..

fuckyeahlgbtbatman:

Many of the classics in here (classics = best)

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via larmoyante)

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DC Comics “DAT ASS” Appreciation Blog 2011

livx18:

DAT ASS

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blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC: I saw this performance designed by Nick Cave, of Chicago, in Grand Central Station today. Cave’s “Heard NY” was brought to us by Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit, as it will be for another week, twice a day. Thirty raffia-costumed dancers cavort around the space as “horses” while harps and drums egg them on.
These kind of performances could easily be panned as pseudo-primitive spectacles, full of a romanticized, urbanized yearning for a simpler, more direct, more symbolic, more “authentic” culture. But watching Cave’s performance, and the enthusiastic reaction of the Grand Central audience, it occurred to me that what I was seeing was a fully “authentic” expression of the culture of modern times – not because we moderns want and seek some kind of deep, mystical, shamanistic communion with the animal world, such as our ancestors are supposed to have got through their dancing. But because, in an atomized age of TV and the Web, we simply want shared, live, impressive spectacles, of almost any kind, without expecting much more from them than an instant frisson and shared thrill. And it could be that, even in so-called “simpler” cultures, “ritual” dance may have as much to do with its surface spectacle as with the deeper meanings that anthropologists insist on finding in it. That is, the rigorous anthropologists may be the romantics, in their search for symbolic depths they view as missing from their own lives, whereas the “primitive” dancers and spectators, in their sheer pleasure in the act of communal dance (and disregarding whatever they report to the PhDs) may actually be behaving rather like their commuting peers in New York. (Photo by Lucy Hogg)
For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of thedailybeast.com, and on that site’s Art Beast page.

People having fun as a group, for the sole purpose of having fun and sharing that fun, is completely undervalued as a cultural activity. Great post!

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winabego:

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criacow:

maybeedmonton:

PEROGIES!
“In a sprawling plant in northwest Edmonton, 36,000 waxy white potatoes await their destiny: to fill one of the millions of Cheemo perogies made each day at Heritage Frozen Foods. Cheemo perogies are a staple in Albertan freezers, so ubiquitous that “people forget that we’re from Edmonton,” says president and CEO Joe Makowecki. But the doughy dumplings, stars of Ukrainian cuisine, are now on the menu in homes across Canada and the United States: Cheemo ships a half-billion perogies a year in North America.”

mmm, cheemo. <3
so an American friend of mine did his undergrad at U of A before heading back south. during his time in Edmonton, he fell in love with Cheemo.
This led to him purchasing a cigarette-lighter-port-powered mini-freezer. Then, when he’d come visit me in Vancouver, he’d load up on as much as he could fit in there to take back south.
Worth it.

Hah.

these guys fry well

As a kindergarten field trip, my class went to the Cheemo factory and ate perogies. That’s right.

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[7:54:41 PM] CHAIRS “ChocOverlord” Fuckwheels: BAGEL I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU CAN THINK LIKE YOU’RE HIGH ALL THE TIME

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- She doesn’t need your expensive drugs. She’s 100% high on life.

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superdames:

Green Lantern vs. the Harlequin
—Green Lantern #29 (1947) cover by Irwin Hasen

That costume. Oh heavens.

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