Swirly things everywhere.

syeema, 18. I thrive in bad puns and am a serious haphazard in social situations.

[off-orbis-blog]

He's a gray area, in a world that doesn't like gray areas. But the gray areas are where you find the complexity, it’s where you find the humanity, and it's where you find the truth.

Jon Ronson

[neurosciencestuff]

Association between sunshine and suicide examined in study

Lower rates of suicide are associated with more daily sunshine in the prior 14 to 60 days.

Light interacts with brain serotonin systems and possibly influences serotonin-related behaviors. Those behaviors, such as mood and impulsiveness, can play a role in suicide.

The authors examined the relationship between suicide and the duration of sunshine after mathematically removing seasonal variations in sunshine and suicide numbers. They analyzed data on 69,462 officially confirmed suicides in Austria between January 1970 and May 2010. Hours of sunshine per day were calculated from 86 representative meteorological stations.

There was a positive correlation between the number of suicides and hours of daily sunshine on the day of the suicide and up to 10 days before that seemed to facilitate suicide, while sunshine 14 to 60 days prior appeared to have a negative correlation and was associated with reduced suicides. The correlation between daily sunshine hours and suicide rates was seen largely among women, while negative correlations between the two were mainly found among men.

"Owing to the correlative nature of the data, it is impossible to directly attribute the increase in suicide to sunshine during the 10 days prior to the suicide event. … Further research is warranted to determine which patients with severe episodes of depression are more susceptible to the suicide-triggering effects of sunshine."

(Image: Shutterstock)

[off-orbis-blog]

if i shine the light from my lamp in my face would it be ok because i'm too lazy to go out

[sesamestreet]

[ev4n-perks-deactivated20221222]

NOW I KNOW WHY OUR GENERATION IS SO SARCASTIC AND CYNICAL

[dex5m]

Doctor, Sherlock wants his shirt back.

[will-think-about-a-name-later]

welcome to the BBC, we have twelve actors three writers and ten props

[dopernose-deactivated20141116]

*Fox News voice* Was slavery really about race???

[kavaeric-old-deactivated2022110]

I look up — many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive… - Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson [ x ]

[almostdefinitelydying]

If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what would you do? 

Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved “Fast Lane” sites.

Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and enlightening stuff that makes the Internet so much cooler than mainstream Cable TV. What if the only news sites you could reliably connect to were the ones that had deals with companies like Comcast and Verizon?

On September 10th, just a few days before the FCC’s comment deadline, public interest organizations are issuing an open, international call for websites and internet users to unite for an “Internet Slowdown” to show the world what the web would be like if Team Cable gets their way and trashes net neutrality. Net neutrality is hard to explain, so our hope is that this action will help SHOW the world what’s really at stake if we lose the open Internet.

If you’ve got a website, blog or tumblr, get the code to join the #InternetSlowdown here: https://battleforthenet.com/sept10th

Everyone else, here’s a quick list of things you can do to help spread the word about the slowdown: http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/96020972118/be-a-part-of-the-great-internet-slowdown  

[vintagethriftyprincess-blog]

[chocolatecakesandthickmilkshakes]

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[tentacletherapissed]

In

Case

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You

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Doubts

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Fact

(Also the hilarious case of crackers crying about racism due to it)

[sherlockundercover-deactivated2]

When Ben got interviewed by kids… [x]

[cacavape]

i love high contrast photos of fruit floating threateningly in the night

[poolboydivision]

I don’t believe such a thing exists

[cacavape]

[poolboydivision]

I was mistaken

[ferreadomina]

[foxxmilk]

Oh wow…

[ginger-men-and-garlic-bread]

The last pic

[standingcowrrdly]

one time when my dad was in college these guys found a carpet on the sidewalk and they needed furniture for their dorm so they were like “hell yeah free carpet” and they carried the carpet upstairs and it was really wet and heavy so they unrolled it to let it dry and a dead body fell out

[standingcowrrdly]

I’M NOT SHITTING YOU

[iraffiruse]

[zeusantolin-deactivated20200303]

I absolutely love the end result.

[illbethere--foryou-deactivated2]

i can’t believe i watched that

[tearjerkerr]

i thought this was going to take me on a spiritual journey and it did

[themostfuniveverhad]

If youtubers have ever helped you in any way, reblog this and l'll write your url on a little piece of paper and put it in a jar.

I want to be able to fill this jar up as much as possible. I want to prove that they really aren’t just people on the internet. They have done more than just entertain. They have truly helped people.

[themostfuniveverhad]

Update! Before a million people message me, if this keeps getting notes, I will get another jar. Right now I’ve got 6136 urls in the jar.

P.S. I don’t mind if you want to reblog again to have your url in there more than once. :)

[swolizard]

This has been a public service announcement

[immortalpoet]

How about you go fuck yourself and let people enjoy what they want.

[swolizard]

[immortalpoet]

Tough guy hiding behind a screen. Lolz. Tollz feeding trollz. Good job bruh. You make fun of people to feel better about yourself. Thank you for helping set back humanity a few years. Grow the fuck up and get a job. Oh wait, wasn’t that your advice?

[swolizard]

[immortalpoet]

I’m enjoying feeding this troll. Let’s see how high his standing is on a social media site because people ‘like’ his posts.

[swolizard]

[afro-lacefront]

i’m loving these madden gifs

[psych2go]

The Stanford Prison Guard Experiment Reveals That Personality Is Not Innate but Caused by the Situation or Surrounding

The Stanford prison guard experiment done by Philip G. Zimbardo is one of the most well known psychology classics. The experiment is critiqued on ethical grounds because the participants suffered emotional and even physical abuse but it still is extremely insightful and important. 

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[psych-facts]

This topic is a study you will most likely come across in intro psych class, and in social psychology.

Please remember to leave a question for our author! 

[mattmcguigan]

how to make friends

[mattmcguigan]