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I'm 2 busy 2 check my email so much (I think this will probably be something I don't want anyone to see.)

[amnhnyc]

Did you know? Your belly button is home to much, much more than just the occasional piece of lint.

In 2012, researchers observed spectacular microbial diversity in belly buttons—in 60 different belly buttons surveyed, they found a total of nearly 2,400 phylotypes (a phylotype is shorthand in microbiome studies for “species”) of bacteria. The vast majority of these phylotypes (2,188) were found in fewer than 10 percent of the belly buttons studied. Even though there were 200 or so phylotypes found in more than 10 percent of the belly buttons, none of these were found in all belly buttons, and only eight phylotypes are found in more than 70 percent of the belly buttons. The authors of the work suggest that the belly button biodiversity is on par with the animal diversity in a jungle!

Learn more about this research. 

[skunkbear]

The luminous haze that obscures our view of the constellations - light pollution -is one of the most prevalent forms of environmental alteration. Its impact is felt across a swath of life from the migration of sea turtles to the circadian rhythm of humans. 

A new atlas of light pollution created by an international team of scientists reveals just how pervasive this artificial glow is. The atlas shows that more than 80% of the world and more than 99% of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies. The Milky Way is hidden from more than one-third of humanity, including 60% of Europeans and nearly 80% of North Americans.

Check out this interactive map and read more here.

[npr]

An important reminder to get out and do some stargazing. -Emily

[borderline-sunflower-deactivate]

i was on the train and 3 drunk girls saw me and said i had nice brown eyes so they sang “brown eyed girl” to me

[5348674174-deactivated20150510]

I threw up at a frat party and I was crying in the bathroom and a drunk girl went upstairs to get me a shirt and came back with a sweater and a kitten.

[locke-fuckscottlynch78-lamora]

At the last party I went to three drunk girls fishtail braided my hair by committee

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

a drunk girl drew an eye on the back of my hand and then patted it with satisfaction and  whispered “count olaf”

[wizzard890]

once at a barbecue a drunk girl gave the surgical scar on my shoulder a butterfly kiss and said “you’re cured”

[erincrocodile-deactivated202006]

A drunk girl at a bar I was at became worried that I wasn’t getting enough nutrition and proceeded to hold peanuts to my lips and just keep saying “peanut peanut” until I would eat it. And after I allowed her to feed me a peanut she pet my hair and said “Thank you”.

[mcdonalds-money]

Drunk girls, saving your life one wtf at a time.

[gh0stvirgo]

Girls are a fucking gift don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

[hillergoodspeed]

[mothgirlwings]

[flowdu]

Girl reading with her pet deer in Beverly Hills, CA - 1927

[massivelimestonecube]

??? someone broke into my grandmas house while she was gone & shaved the matted fur off her cat

[massivelimestonecube]

i want to emphasize that the cat was the only thing altered here

[massivelimestonecube]

would also like to add that this occcurred sometime between 11 pm & 9 am. we have no leads. the cat is fine & probably appreciates not having a huge mat on his neck, but, like, that’s a really weird kind of vigilante justice, still

[spectral-bargheist-deactivated2]

chaotic good

[paylolol]

U.S.S Crushing So Hard

[nya-kin]

[sustainablefarming-deactivated2]

is he okay?

[npr]

How does an artist know when a work is finished? Sometimes it’s a deliberate decision. Other times, the decision is made by fate or circumstance. Now, an extensive exhibition at The Met Breuer Museum in Manhattan is exploring great works of unfinished art.

The Unfinished show has an intriguing subtitle: “Thoughts Left Visible.” The exhibit showcases works made over some 600 years, which offer glimpses into the creative process and sometimes reveal artists’ anger or despair.

Curator Andrea Bayer says that unfinished works can still be masterpieces. She cites a small, exquisitely detailed drawing Jan van Eyck made in 1437, in preparation for a painted panel.

Saint Barbara sits on a hill near a looming Gothic tower. She holds a thick book and long, graceful palm leaves. The young woman is drawn in black, on a pale background. Van Eyck paints in just a few birds against a blue sky. “And then he stopped,” says Bayer, and declares, “It’s a masterpiece.” No one knows why van Eyck didn’t apply paint to the rest of the panel. But he signed and dated it, which usually means an artist thinks it’s finished.

Rembrandt was once asked why so many of his works look half-finished. He replied: “A work of art is complete when in it the artist has realized his intention.” Rembrandt implies that it’s up to the artist to decide, not to critics, who may say a work appears raw, lacking a complete appearance.

Paul Cezanne, who was never satisfied, rarely signed his works. In a letter to his mother, he wrote that finishing things was a goal for imbeciles.

You Gonna Finish That? What We Can Learn From Artworks In Progress

Photo: Courtesy of The Met Breuer Museum

[sumflora]

my phone: Storage Almost Full 

me: be quiet

[paylolol]

me: *procrastinates necessary things*

me: *procrastinates enjoyable things*

me @ me: why are you like this

[36s-deactivated20161122]

:(

just remembered heterosexuality

[theatlantic]

Any woman who is using the Internet has come across that moment where all of the sudden a hateful or sexist comment is coming back at you.

Adrienne LaFrance reports on the real life dangers that women face as a result of internet harassment in “When Will the Internet Be Safe for Women?”

“Any woman who is using the Internet for her professional life or for her personal life has come across that moment where there is all of the sudden a hateful or sexist comment coming back at you,” Clark said. “You do internalize it, and even though it is not someone directly in front of you, there is something about the anonymous nature of it—when you don’t know where a threat is coming from—that really gets into someone’s psyche.”

What Wu experienced was worse than most. Both men and women face widespread harassment online, but Gamergate involved a host of threats against women specifically—and high-profile women like Wu, in particular. In general, much of the worst harassment, including attacks that go beyond name-calling to include stalking and sexual harassment, is disproportionately targeted at women, according to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center.

“When we heard of what Brianna Wu was going through, and really started looking into Gamergate and how extreme—not only the level of threats that were coming in, but the velocity with which they were attacking women; really a 24/7 onslaught of hateful threats and comments. This shouldn’t just be something that we accept as part of women using technology in their work lives and in their personal lives.”

But many women are told they must accept just that: If you don’t like the way you’re being treated online, you should log off.

Read the entire story here.

[buzzfeedcomics]

[buzzfeed]

same

[gaywrites]

GLAAD has released its annual Studio Responsibility Index, a measure of LGBT inclusivity in movies. 

The results were disappointing: Only 17.5% of films from major studios included LGBT characters, and their portrayals were less diverse and less significant:

Of the movies with LGBT characters, 77% featured gay men and 23% featured lesbians. Only 9% featured bisexual people and 5% featured transgender people. 

Only 25.5% of the LGBT characters were people of color. 

GLAAD uses the “Vito Russo test,” a measure similar to the Bechdel test, to measure the significance of LGBT characters and stories in a movie. Only 36% of the inclusive films passed the Vito Russo test. 

Read more from GLAAD here, and join me in a long, exasperated sigh. 

[mossytreebeard]

This is the video of Florence Welch dedicating the song Spectrum to Luke during her concert in Dallas

[lexlucas007]

i still can’t believe this happened, and i will never stop crying about it.

[mentalflossr]