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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:32:21 -0700

leslieismore:

anjalouise:

(via doering)

get out of town!

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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:51:16 -0700

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stellar87: loveyourchaos: please, tumblr, understand how much...

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:29:12 -0700

stellar87:

loveyourchaos:

please, tumblr, understand how much this means

Originally named Pee Wee, but later renamed due to fears of an...

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:28:16 -0700

Originally named Pee Wee, but later renamed due to fears of an inferiority complex, Scooter eats out of an egg cup three times a day and sleeps in a shoebox. (via Scooter may be world’s smallest dog | World News | News.com.au

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Here is da Church « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:20:14 -0700

Here is da Church « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?

Whip It (2009) Trailer (via FilmCentralHD) I am SO going to see...

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:11:05 -0700

Whip It (2009) Trailer (via FilmCentralHD)

I am SO going to see this movie.

"I don’t buy this gain-without-pain notion. Duality resides, indissoluble, at life’s core — Faust’s..."

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:04:12 -0700

“I don’t buy this gain-without-pain notion. Duality resides, indissoluble, at life’s core — Faust’s two souls within his breast, Anna Karenina’s shifting essence. Life without death would be miserable. Its beauty is bound to its fragility. Dawn is unimaginable without the dusk. When life extension supplants life quality as a goal, you get the desolation of Canto the monkey. Living to 120 holds zero appeal for me. Canto looks like he’s itching to be put out of his misery.”

- Op-Ed Columnist - The Meaning of Life - NYTimes.com

"Both sides agree that regular exercise, at any size, improves health. “If you want to know who’s..."

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:27:53 -0700

“Both sides agree that regular exercise, at any size, improves health. “If you want to know who’s going to die, know their fitness level,” said Steven Blair, a self-described “fat and fit” professor of exercise science, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina. His research indicates that “obese individuals who are fit have a death rate one half that of normal-weight people who are not fit.””

- Skin Deep - Skin Deep - Throwing out the Diet and Embracing the Fat - NYTimes.com

"For many dieters, “the pursuit of thinness as a dream is a place holder,” said Deb Burgard, a..."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:48:52 -0700

“For many dieters, “the pursuit of thinness as a dream is a place holder,” said Deb Burgard, a clinical psychologist in Los Altos, Calif., specializing in eating disorders. “It gets in the way of asking, ‘What is it I am dreaming of?’ “ A dieter may think, “ ‘If I could just lose weight, all that will take care of itself,’ so they don’t invest in getting what they want,” she said. Instead, she said, “they invest in weight loss.””

- Skin Deep - Skin Deep - Throwing out the Diet and Embracing the Fat - NYTimes.com

"In order for pasture-based livestock to become a significant part of the meat industry, we need to..."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:29:18 -0700

““In order for pasture-based livestock to become a significant part of the meat industry, we need to eat more of its meat, not less,” Hamilton writes. “So if you want to use your food choices to impact climate change, by all means follow Dr. Pachauri’s suggestion for a meatless Monday. But on Tuesday, have a grass-fed burger—and feel good about it.””

- Eating Meat for the Environment

It's hot! It's sexy! It's ... marriage! | Salon Life

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:47:48 -0700

It's hot! It's sexy! It's ... marriage! | Salon Life

"In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, “What..."

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:52:28 -0700

“In an interview in the March 2008 newsletter to the Grant Study subjects, Vaillant was asked, “What have you learned from the Grant Study men?” Vaillant’s response: “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.””

- What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)

"At the bottom of the pile are the unhealthiest, or “psychotic,” adaptations—like paranoia,..."

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:41:42 -0700

“At the bottom of the pile are the unhealthiest, or “psychotic,” adaptations—like paranoia, hallucination, or megalomania—which, while they can serve to make reality tolerable for the person employing them, seem crazy to anyone else. One level up are the “immature” adaptations, which include acting out, passive aggression, hypochondria, projection, and fantasy. These aren’t as isolating as psychotic adaptations, but they impede intimacy. “Neurotic” defenses are common in “normal” people. These include intellectualization (mutating the primal stuff of life into objects of formal thought); dissociation (intense, often brief, removal from one’s feelings); and repression, which, Vaillant says, can involve “seemingly inexplicable naïveté, memory lapse, or failure to acknowledge input from a selected sense organ.” The healthiest, or “mature,” adaptations include altruism, humor, anticipation (looking ahead and planning for future discomfort), suppression (a conscious decision to postpone attention to an impulse or conflict, to be addressed in good time), and sublimation (finding outlets for feelings, like putting aggression into sport, or lust into courtship).”

- What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)

"Vaillant explains defenses as the mental equivalent of a basic biological process. When we cut..."

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:40:38 -0700

“Vaillant explains defenses as the mental equivalent of a basic biological process. When we cut ourselves, for example, our blood clots—a swift and involuntary response that maintains homeostasis. Similarly, when we encounter a challenge large or small—a mother’s death or a broken shoelace—our defenses float us through the emotional swamp. And just as clotting can save us from bleeding to death—or plug a coronary artery and lead to a heart attack—defenses can spell our redemption or ruin. Vaillant’s taxonomy ranks defenses from worst to best, in four categories.”

- What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic (June 2009)

". It is physiologically wrong. It makes no allowance for the relative proportions of bone, muscle..."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:11:49 -0700

“. It is physiologically wrong. It makes no allowance for the relative proportions of bone, muscle and fat in the body. But bone is denser than muscle and twice as dense as fat, so a person with strong bones, good muscle tone and low fat will have a high BMI. Thus, athletes and fit, health-conscious movie stars who work out a lot tend to find themselves classified as overweight or even obese.”

- Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus : NPR

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E (via...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:33:02 -0700

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E (via gudbuytjane)

Op-Art - Strands of American History - Interactive Graphic -...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:29:25 -0700

Op-Art - Strands of American History - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

ZooBorns: Otter Twins in Auckland - Handfuls of Fluff

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:16:03 -0700

ZooBorns: Otter Twins in Auckland - Handfuls of Fluff

(via stellar87) so little has changed …

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:08:26 -0700

(via stellar87)

so little has changed …

Amy Stein | Photography | Domesticated

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:11:22 -0700

Amy Stein | Photography | Domesticated