December 2010
39 posts
15 Whoppers Glenn Beck Did Not Get Fired For In... →
inothernews:
(via stfuglennbeck)
monstrousfanciesmisshapendreams:
Another Year -...
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
Reblog if you're ending 2010 single.
brosturbati0n:
“Edward R. Murrow turned public opinion against the excesses of Senator Joseph...”
– From the New York Times article, “In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow”, about how Jon Stewart’s coverage may have turned the tide on the stalled healthcare bill for World Trade Center first responders.
Let’s see how much fun the right has with this one.
(via inothernews)
Women, the best freaking firewall in the world →
lonelycoast:
franklieu:
One human cell contains 75MB genetic information.
One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB.
One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms.
In average, ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen.
This means that the throughput of a man’s member is equal to (37.5MB x 100,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 1 687 500 000 000 000 byte/second = 1,6875 Тerabyte/sec
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“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So...”
– Haruki Murakami (via justbesplendid)
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
– Steven Wright (via libraryland)
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan, who passed away on this day in 1996.
(See also: #sagan forever.)
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via tulletulle)
USA TODAY: Brain anomaly leaves woman without... →
Researchers who have studied a woman with a missing amygdala — the part of the brain believed to generate fear — report that their findings may help improve treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.
In perhaps the first human study confirming that the almond-shaped structure is crucial for triggering fear, researchers at the University of Iowa monitored...
