have my kicks

[ilovecharts]

Personal Space in some of the World’s Biggest Cities

Pictured above: New York

[nevver]

Might as well

[browndresswithwhitedots]

What people have to realize first is they’re not just one single person who does weird, out-of-character things now and then. We’re all made up of many different selves who fight and compete with one another constantly. Somehow we’ve got to get them to agree on a few basic things. Get them to stop fighting with one another. They all have different needs. One part of us wants safety, but another wants adventure. I want to be loved. I want to be left alone…Those aren’t contradictions-they’re independent selves saying ‘I want this!’

Jonathan Carroll (via thatkindofwoman)

[havemykicks-blog]

(C) Alvin Ailey 2012

[icanread]

[havemykicks-blog]

8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need

i probably needed all of these to help describe my friday night

here's the link to download the font: http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6872909/download-the-collegehumor-punctuation-font

[theshinysquirrel]

[havemykicks-blog]

so lovely. vintage colors from 1890

[explore-blog]

Happy Darwin Day! Celebrate with this visual history of evolutionary diagrams.

[havemykicks-blog]

geeking out over these illustrated zoological networks that date as far back as the 16th century

via @brainpickings

[buzzfeed]

Can what you eat tell you something about how you vote? Possibly.

[graphicboutique]

Txaber

[havemykicks-blog]

Made with Paper

[nevver]

[havemykicks-blog]

DAY 1

[havemykicks-blog]

about to blow up. the look, the voice. #kimbra

[nevver]

If you were here…

[icanread]

[explodingdog]

I’ve been thinking

[sunfoundation]

[havemykicks-blog]

Hm. Chart of declining Congressional speaking level via @sunfoundation:

Is Congress getting dumber, or just more plainspoken?

Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did just seven years ago, with the most conservative members of Congress speaking on average at the lowest grade level, according to a new Sunlight Foundation analysis of the Congressional Record using Capitol Words.

Of course, what some might interpret as a dumbing down of Congress, others will see as more effective communications. And lawmakers of both parties still speak over the heads of the average American, who reads at between at 8th and 9th grade level.

Today’s Congress collectively speaks at a 10.6 grade level, down from 11.5 in 2005.

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