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CATNIP: EGRESS TO OBLIVION?

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This Greek kylix from 510 BCE depicts a man playing Kottabos. Kottabos was a drinking game played by ancient Greeks and Italians at their parties (symposia). The object of the game was to use just one hand to flick the last bits of wine in your cup at a small statuette, which was perched above a little platform. You were successful if you could knock the statuette down onto the platform so that it made a clanging sound.

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Reblogged just because their parties were “symposia”.  

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Want Healthier Farm Animals? Look to the Mutants.

“A lot of vets don’t see these things, they’re not super common,” Hendershot said. “But they do pop up from time to time, and it can be a real challenge to get those answers for their clients.

So, Hendershot said, these photos offer a great launching pad for deeper investigations. And now, with improvements to genetic testing technology, farmers can investigate more easily with genetic testing.

Read more about how studying livestock with birth defects can help strengthen a breed at PBS Newshour. (Photos courtesy of Shelby Hendershot.)

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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: when he first appears, he is a protector.

Plato, Republic (via philosophybits)

[gardenforsparrows]

Help for Students Struggling with Online Classes

For all you students who are suddenly finding yourself with online classes, here is list of people who are willing to help out with anyone struggling and our specialties/areas of interests. We’re all colleagues and we’re all in this together! Let’s be a true academic community and support each other as much as possible in the coming months.

This google doc has a list of over 100 people (with more being added) with different academic specialities ranging from chemistry to theatre and we want to help you with studies. In fact, we are very excited about helping you!

If you reblogged the first version of this post, please consider reblogging this one too, so that we can get it in the hands of as many people as possible. Thank you all for your wonderful support!

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hahahaha good job 

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Mr Mojo's Christmas

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Deborah Bogen: Four Truths About Anesthesia

1/ Maybe this is how it is: as you fall asleep a small hole opens in the back of your head just above the neck where children love to be tickled. This porthole opens and sleep tests the air. Slow m…

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 Champ Becomes EPA Director as Trump Fills Cabinet with Actual Monsters)

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We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston

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What Men Fear Most - NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.

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I'm late, as usual, unless one considers this as the 40th anniversary of the year the song came out.

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Economics is a form of brain damage

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Memes & Laughs

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In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend, in adversity nothing is so difficult.

Epictetus, Fragments (via philosophybits)

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11 Great Female Cinematographers Who Subvert the Male Gaze

IndieWire celebrates the work of Rachel Morrison, Ellen Kuras, and nine other cinematography greats with the help of some of their greatest collaborators and admirers.

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Sarah Sanders just again complained that Democrats support “open borders and rampant crime” that she claims comes with “open borders.” These are straight up lies, so blatant and frequently repeated that I thought it was important to provide links here which can allow anyone who is willing to state and repeat the actual facts again and again and again.

Please Bookmark This Post. Seriously. (via wilwheaton)