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we're not kids anymore.
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@hypeforallthethings
Seriously… this is what it’s come down too? When I first saw this image I didn’t know what I was looking at, I saw the armored car and Flack vests and thought it was an image from a battle field in Afghanistan. There is a sickness creeping into our society that must be rooted out now it is the love of money over the wellbeing of human beings. It was always there but somehow slightly kept in check but somehow we have now crossed a line. #NoDapl
mad max fury road: a summary
uk side of tumblr are u ok
No. Very no.
harry potter yes
This post is everything I want.
I know I'm about ten years late with this..... But I've just read Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix for the first time, and I am now broken. None of that even needed to happen?!?!? WHY?!?!?!? I cried on an airplane today.
i hate monopoly it is like some old white guy was sitting around and then thought to himself, what if we could make capitalism fun? well you tried and you failed dipshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly it was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer. She designed it to be incredibly not fun, to show that if you don’t own property you experience an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of your resources until you eventually go bankrupt. She figured that through Monopoly people would be so bored and frustrated that they would understand how terrible the system of rent is
Then Parker Brothers patented it, mass-produced it, people bought it because people have terrible taste in games, and the original creator experienced an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of her resources until she died impoverished and obscure
society is a horrific parody of itself
The Sixth Extinction
This chart shows the enormous uptick in species extinction over the last century.
Paul Ehrlich and others use highly conservative estimates to prove that species are disappearing faster than at any time since the dinosaurs’ demise.
There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity’s existence.
That is the bad news at the center of a new study by a group of scientists including Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Ehrlich and his co-authors call for fast action to conserve threatened species, populations and habitat, but warn that the window of opportunity is rapidly closing.
“[The study] shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,” Ehrlich said.
Although most well known for his positions on human population, Ehrlich has done extensive work on extinctions going back to his 1981 book, Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species. He has long tied his work on coevolution, on racial, gender and economic justice, and on nuclear winter with the issue of wildlife populations and species loss.
There is general agreement among scientists that extinction rates have reached levels unparalleled since the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. However, some have challenged the theory, believing earlier estimates rested on assumptions that overestimated the crisis.
The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative estimates, species are disappearing up to about 100 times faster than the normal rate between mass extinctions, known as the background rate.
“If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover, and our species itself would likely disappear early on,” said lead author Gerardo Ceballos of the Universidad Autónoma de México.
Using fossil records and extinction counts from a range of records, the researchers compared a highly conservative estimate of current extinctions with a background rate estimate twice as high as those widely used in previous analyses. This way, they brought the two estimates – current extinction rate and average background or going-on-all-the-time extinction rate – as close to each other as possible.
Focusing on vertebrates, the group for which the most reliable modern and fossil data exist, the researchers asked whether even the lowest estimates of the difference between background and contemporary extinction rates still justify the conclusion that people are precipitating “a global spasm of biodiversity loss.” The answer: a definitive yes.
“We emphasize that our calculations very likely underestimate the severity of the extinction crisis, because our aim was to place a realistic lower bound on humanity’s impact on biodiversity,” the researchers write.
To history’s steady drumbeat, a human population growing in numbers, per capita consumption and economic inequity has altered or destroyed natural habitats. The long list of impacts includes:
Land clearing for farming, logging and settlement
Introduction of invasive species
Carbon emissions that drive climate change and ocean acidification
Toxins that alter and poison ecosystems
Now, the specter of extinction hangs over about 41 percent of all amphibian species and 26 percent of all mammals, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which maintains an authoritative list of threatened and extinct species.
“There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead,” Ehrlich said.
As species disappear, so do crucial ecosystem services such as honeybees’ crop pollination and wetlands’ water purification. At the current rate of species loss, people will lose many biodiversity benefits within three generations, the study’s authors write. “We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on,” Ehrlich said.
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Image Source: International Union for Conservation of Nature
#Nagoya #osu #nightwalk
I have a lot of young people following me on here, so I thought I’d post a quick summary of what today’s budget means to under 25s:
The new higher minimum wage (which Osborne has called the National Living Wage but isn’t a living wage) doesn’t apply to you.
You are no longer entitled to housing benefit if you’re aged 18-21, so hopefully you get on with your parents or have a friend with a sofa you can sleep on.
But, if you’re going to be living with them in social housing and your earnings push your household’s income over £30,000 a year (£40,000 in London) then whoever you’re living with will have to pay full market rent, which would see their rent double. (As a side note: By 2020 a household that consists of two people earning the minimum wage would cross this threshold, meaning that by the end of the parliament no household consisting of two people over the age of 25 earning the national minimum wage will be able to rent at the social housing rate…and the press are calling this a rent cut for “wealthy” and “middle class” social housing tenants).
You have to be either in work or in education, you cannot leave school and immediately claim benefits.
That said, if you’re poor then you’ll no longer be able to receive a maintenance grant to support you while you’re in higher education, but you will be able to take out a loan to add to the ones you’ll be taking out to cover your tuition fees.
If you happen to have a third child that is born after April 2017, which could well be relevant to those of you under 25, you will not be able to claim tax credits for that child or any subsequent children because, apparently, it’s your fault for choosing to have more children when you couldn’t afford it, even though your circumstances could well have changed between the child’s conception and when you need to claim.
If your parents should pass away and leave you up to £1 million you won’t have to pay tax on it.
I feel so angry and so powerless.
This is wrong and I don't know what to do about it.
Today I went to USJ in Osaka with these nobheads. They are wonderful and I love them.
by Taisiya K
I would like this in my future house. Also, I have never come across behance.net before.
Can an awe-inspiring view boost the body’s immune response?
Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your understanding of the world. Early in human history, awe was reserved for feelings toward divine beings – e.g., gods.
In 1757, a revolution in our understanding of awe began thanks to Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. In A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Burke detailed how we feel the sublime (awe) not just during religious ritual or in communion with God, but in everyday perceptual experiences: in hearing thunder, in being moved by music, in seeing repetitive patterns of light and dark. Awe was to be found in daily life.
So what does awe do for you in the present moment?
Awe may be important for good health. The focus for UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner is on one branch of the immune system known as the cytokine system. Cytokines are chemical messengers that are often produced by cells in damaged tissue. Many cytokines elicit an inflammatory response, which is important for killing pathogens and healing wounds.
Psychology is discovering that a hyperactive cytokine response renders the individual chronically sick and vulnerable to disease, a process that may be involved in how poverty shortens lives. Jennifer Stellar from Keltner’s lab recently documented that of all the positive emotions humans experience, only awe predicted reduced levels of cytokines. Though this is still quite speculative, it raises the possibility that some of the pernicious effects of poverty are due to awe deprivation.
“That awe, wonder and beauty promote healthier levels of cytokines suggests that the things we do to experience these emotions – a walk in nature, losing oneself in music, beholding art – has a direct influence upon health and life expectancy,” said Keltner.
Why Do We Feel Awe? →
Interesting ne?
La Defense by Wojtek Gurak
If you click through to the website you can see a bunch of his other pictures - it's really beautiful :)
This drink I like it. Another!
I love how quickly he readjusts to the culture so foreign to him. Like, he does not even protest or try to explain this is how it’s done in Asgard so it’s how it SHOULD be done because he’s a mighty god and stuff. He’s just like “but I… oh I see smashing mugs is not a custom here. I’m sorry I won’t do it again :( “
A lot of people could learn from this.
^ How to be a traveler and not a tourist
Preach!
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I started reading the silmarillion. Isn't it beautiful? But page 19 and I'm already having to write myself a character list.
I had a dream about liquorice last night.
There isn't any in Japan. It's been 18 months....
