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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..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:19:39 -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)

cookiesandcurves: Clare Bare

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:21:50 -0400

cookiesandcurves:

Clare Bare

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Thu, 30 May 2013 00:21:47 -0400

"I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky..."

Mon, 27 May 2013 01:41:06 -0400

“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn’t be you.”

- Jeffrey Eugenides (via hellanne)

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I had a bunch of ideas for what that song could be, but I...

Mon, 27 May 2013 01:40:25 -0400

I had a bunch of ideas for what that song could be, but I didn’t feel it was right for me to give Ryan a song to give to Michelle. And so I gave him a challenge and let him pick out a song for her. Ryan has a great taste and the song he picked out was You and Me by Penny and the Quarters. And I thought it was just great. So I told Ryan to keep the song a secret, and never share it with Michelle until we were shooting. So they day came to shoot the scene, Ryan had the song in his back pocket, and we captured the real moment where one person gives an other person the gift of music. The gift, because it came from Ryan, was personal. Michelle was touched deeply by it. What happens on the screen is a real, living and breathing, intimate moment.

Derek Cianfrance

"Y[tw: domestic violence/abuse]The other question everybody asks is, why doesn’t she just leave? Why..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:30:15 -0400

“Y[tw: domestic violence/abuse]

The other question everybody asks is, why doesn’t she just leave? Why didn’t I walk out? I could have left any time. To me, this is the saddest and most painful question that people ask, because we victims know something you usually don’t: It’s incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser. Because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is kill her. Over 70 percent of domestic violence murders happen after the victim has ended the relationship, after she’s gotten out, because then the abuser has nothing left to lose. Other outcomes include long-term stalking, even after the abuser remarries; denial of financial resources; and manipulation of the family court system to terrify the victim and her children, who are regularly forced by family court judges to spend unsupervised time with the man who beat their mother. And still we ask, why doesn’t she just leave?”

- “Why domestic violence victims don’t leave” - Leslie Morgan Steiner (via eaaao)

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:39:15 -0400

thesubtleartofsurrender:

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:43:24 -0400

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:46:23 -0400

marthajefferson: Julianne Moore as “Famous Works of Art” by...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:46:12 -0400

marthajefferson:

Julianne Moore as “Famous Works of Art” by Peter Linderbergh - for Harper’s Bazaar

Seated Woman With Bent Knee by Egon Schiele, La Grande Odalisque by Ingres, Saint Praxidis by Vermeer, The Cripple by John Currin, Les danseuses by Edgar Degas, Madame X by John Singer, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer, Woman With a Fan by Modigliani, Man Crazy Nurse #3 by Richard Prince, Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt.

linamuunchy: Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love In this city of robot...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:57:19 -0400

linamuunchy:

Ra Ra Riot - Beta Love

In this city of robot hearts, ours were made to be.

all-things-bright-and-beyootiful: Photography by Lifeography

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:13:12 -0400

all-things-bright-and-beyootiful:

Photography by Lifeography

19 Ways Your First Love Changes You | Thought Catalog

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:12:15 -0400

19 Ways Your First Love Changes You | Thought Catalog

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cloysterbell: So when I was walking around earlier, I came upon...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:40:10 -0400

cloysterbell:

So when I was walking around earlier, I came upon this “Little Free Library” in front of a house.

This is a “Take a book, leave a book” kind of project done by the 7 year old kid who lives in the house. Inside was a note written by the kid saying that he created the little library because “people should never not have a book with them”.

This is probably the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:33:19 -0400

brandnewboxofmatches: Baby Animals, Sharon Montrose Omfg.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:32:58 -0400

brandnewboxofmatches:

Baby Animals, Sharon Montrose

Omfg.