Ayo

I'm an African living near the northern lights. I'm a student, scientist, and sports fan.

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Passenger - Let Her Go

http://bit.ly/XAKDig

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(via BBC Sport - Africa Cup of Nations 2013 in pictures)

Jump for joy :) 

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Yoruba Women 1970s

More Vintage Nigerian photos

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this is extremely newsworthy

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I wonder if there are any cheesy scifi novels about rogue drones.

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Astronaut Bedset  by Snurk

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Want...

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Residence hall at the University College in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Modernizing Africa was the theme of Life Magazine, May 1953. The story highlighted the words: European faculty, British architects and educated elite.

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I imagine this is the University of Ibadan that my dad attended... I wonder what it looks like now.

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“We used to call them Super Chickens. Now they are once again Super Eagles,” said another supporter in the capital, Abuja, dressed from head to toe in his team’s colours of green and white. Fireworks flickered across the sky as celebrations continued into the night. “We are champions,” said David Oji, another follower, tears streaming down his face, “For once we are the best at something good.” (via African football: Nigerian heroes | The Economist)

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Eisbären Berlin v Kölner Haie by toksuede on Flickr.

Hockey is such a blur.

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Manchester United v Fulham by toksuede on Flickr.

offside! p.s. Ryu Voelkel takes the best soccer pictures!

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xkcd: Identity

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(via Instapaper)

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Endeavour Ferry Flight (201209190019HQ) by nasa hq photo on Flickr.

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when people focus on a score rather than on improvement, they develop a fixed idea of their intellectual abilities. They come to see school not as a place to grow and learn, but as a place to demonstrate their intelligence by means of a number

Why Students Cheat on Tests -- New York Magazine

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The more profound truth behind friend clutter may be that, as a general rule, we don’t handle endings well. “Our culture seems to applaud the spirit, promise and gumption of beginnings,” writes the sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot in her absorbing new book, Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free, whereas “our exits are often ignored or invisible”. We celebrate the new – marriages, homes, work projects – but “there is little appreciation or applause when we decide (or it is decided for us) that it’s time to move on”. We need “a language for leave-taking”, Lawrence-Lightfoot argues, and not just for funerals. A terminated friendship, after all, needn’t necessarily signal a horrifying defeat, to be expunged from memory. One might just as easily think of it as “completed”.

Facebook and Twitter: the art of unfriending or unfollowing people | Technology | The Guardian

via randomberlinchick

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Protect Your Textbooks

Are you protecting your most important textbook?

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"Derrick Rose breaks into tears at the adidas D Rose 3 launch (by theassociation)"

Poor guy, I wish him a full recovery