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I saw an old rice cooker being used as a flower pot. I thought it was cute ^^

practicing for my webcomic~

snorlaxatives

garlic memes??? i feel like his has such a niche audience but i feel it

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Ok I 100% agree with this

tonberrycrunch

This meme is right

mazelopez

My Favourite Ladies: Rory Gilmore

“I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann’s Way.”

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Delicate Animal Portraits Formed Out of Pressed Pieces of Fern Fragments

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Licia Ronzulli, member of the European Parliament, has been taking her daughter Vittoria to the Parliament sessions for two years now.

ceevee5

Every time this is on my dash, it’s an automatic reblog.

archatlas

Michal Orlowski

Michal Orlowski is an architect and watercolor painter, a graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, one of the founders of Polish Watercolor Association and founder of “Creosfera” atelier. He is the author of paintings located in many private collections all over the world, as well as hand drawn architectural visualization.

mianakenobi

Dear News Media

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE WAS A FEMINIST STORY LONG BEFORE ELIZABETH BENNET EVER HAD TO KILL ZOMBIES.

The idea of a single woman with no fortune, who is boss enough to reject not one, but TWO marriage proposals - even though they would both greatly increase the ease of her life by either marrying the heir to her family estate or marrying one of the richest men in England - just because SHE DOESN’T WANT TO, who is brave enough to be snarky and cheeky and takes no shit from people who is so far above her social standing just because they are rude to her and her family, who is adamant that the only person she will marry will be for love, THIS is a feminist story.

STOP ACTING LIKE GIVING HER A SWORD SUDDENLY MAKES HER A FEMINIST ICON. She’d held that title in her dainty glove for over 200 years.

mindblowingscience

Welcome to the Pirate Bay of science.

A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she’s now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world’s biggest publishers.

For those of you who aren’t already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it’s sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn’t afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it’s since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily. But at the end of last year, the site was ordered to be taken down by a New York district court - a ruling that Elbakyan has decided to fight, triggering a debate over who really owns science.

“Payment of $32 is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research. I obtained these papers by pirating them,”Elbakyan told Torrent Freak last year. “Everyone should have access to knowledge regardless of their income or affiliation. And that’s absolutely legal.”

If it sounds like a modern day Robin Hood struggle, that’s because it kinda is. But in this story, it’s not just the poor who don’t have access to scientific papers - journal subscriptions have become so expensive that leading universities such as Harvard and Cornell have admitted they can no longer afford them. Researchers have also taken a stand - with 15,000 scientists vowing to boycott publisher Elsevier in part for its excessive paywall fees.

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In case you don’t feel like going through the entire article, here are some important points:

Researcher in Russia thinks it’s stupid to pay so much for articles

makes own site with pirated articles

it really is hella expensive to read articles

Big publishers are rlly mad

they brought up a lawsuit

The researchers don’t actually get any of the money from the fees required to read the article

Also the publishers have questionable processes that promote rapid publication that could easily result in misinformation

It’s unlikely that the lawsuit will result in money even if the company wins

but the suit has implications for the accessibility of information and the role of large corporations in restricting access to articles

rainbowsnakes

I hate pay walls. I hate the fact that research (some of which is publicly funded) is so inaccessible; Sci-Hubs aim :

Knowledge to all

We fight inequality in knowledge access across the world. The scientific knowledge should be available for every person regardless of their income, social status, geographical location and etc.

Our mission is to remove any barrier which impeding the widest possible distribution of knowledge in human society!