Question Everything, Even my methods.

My name is Matthew J. Ijac, and I constantly search, explore and experiment upon everything I have access to.

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The Schwarzenberg coat of arms. Sedlec Ossuary - The Church of Bones-(CZ)

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Scientists have made such progress with lab-grown organs and 3D printing that in the coming decades the need for organ donors could be a thing of the past. The ability to grow fully-functioning organs using transplant patients’ cells isn’t that far away. It’s already been done a time or two. Source

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TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

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Alligators who live in bacteria-filled swamps rarely develop infections in their wounds because their blood proteins are so powerful they can destroy bacteria that human antibiotics can’t even touch. Source

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There’s power in the touch of another person’s hand. We acknowledge it in little ways, all the time. There’s a reason human beings shake hands, hold hands, slap hands, bump hands. It comes from our very earliest memories, when we all come into the world blinded by light and color, deafened by riotous sound, flailing in a suddenly cavernous space without any way of orienting ourselves, shuddering with cold, emptied with hunger, and justifiably frightened and confused. And what changes that first horror, that original state of terror? The touch of another person’s hands. Hands that wrap us in warmth, that hold us close. Hands that guide us to shelter, to comfort, to food. Hands that hold and touch and reassure us through our very first crisis, and guide us into our very first shelter from pain. The first thing we ever learn is that the touch of someone else’s hand can ease pain and make things better. That’s power. That’s power so fundamental that most people never even realize it exists.

Jim Butcher, Skin Game (via wordsnquotes)

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Harvard experts confirmed that a 19th-century book housed in Houghton Library is bound in human skin. The binder, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, left a note explaining that “a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering.” Source

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Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

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This is an important message on how privilege really works.

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it’s good to remember that we shouldn’t only define ourselves by our marginalized identities. for example I am cis, I am middle class, I am educated, I speak English, I am a documented citizen—remember all of those identities you possess that give you privilege.

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The best primer on what Net Neutrality is and why it’s a BFD is John Oliver.  Send his explanation to your friends so they get why we must fight for a neutral internet that distributes information equally. 

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Tom Waits - God’s Away On Business

who were the ones that we kept in charge?

killers, thieves, and lawyers

god’s away on business

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The most colourful places on Earth – in pictures

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Miami Is Drowning, and the Corals Couldn’t Be Happier

In Miami Beach people shop for produce at two feet above sea level. The setting for this activity is a Whole Foods in South Beach. This particular Whole Foods was built on what is now the lowest inhabitable plot of land in Florida. In the surrounding area, only a few feet higher and resting on dredged-up land that was once deep-blue saltwater, is a sprawling assortment of condos, hotels, schools, parks, and small businesses that withstand flooding that grows worse every year.

The common denominator is that every square inch will, at some point, succumb to the ocean.

One mile south of the Whole Foods is a small strip of the bay known as Government Cut. The waterway was dredged and formed in the early 1900s to allow easier access to the Port of Miami. A century later, the port stands as the 11th-largest shipping-container destination in the United States. Despite the port’s continued success, the dredging ships have returned to dig up more—their gigantic steel claws scooping up chunks of seabed like a sludgy arcade-game prize.

Across the water, on the mainland, stands the deserted but still imposing building that formerly housed the Miami Herald. The half-demolished and dilapidated structure is perched on the edge of Biscayne Bay, at a relatively impressive elevation of five feet.

In 2011, the Malaysian conglomerate Genting Group, the parent company of Resorts World Casinos, expressed its intention to build a new casino on the property, even though it is still illegal to operate one in the state of Florida. Fueling the controversy was a rumor that the casino would be accessible only by boat or helicopter, which some people took to confirm suspicions that Genting’s proposal would merely serve as a playground for the rich.

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Zoo Jeans is a company that lets lions, tigers, and bears “design” jeans by tearing holes in the denim. The finished products are auctioned off to raise money for the Kamine Zoo in Hitachi, Japan. Source

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Every writer, of every political flavor, has some neat historical analogy, or mini-lesson, with which to preface an argument for why we ought to bomb these guys or side with those guys against the guys we were bombing before. But the best argument for reading history is not that it will show us the right thing to do in one case or the other, but rather that it will show us why even doing the right thing rarely works out.

Adam Gopnik on the value of studying history. (via newyorker)

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A Doctor has invented a gun that sprays on skin cells and turns extreme burns into healthy skin in 4 days. WARNING: graphic images of burns.