Set Your Motherfucker to "Receive".

[neverbeenmad]

Voight-Kampff Empathy Test 2015

by SMLXist and NobleSasquatch (Twitter)

[welcometobusinesstown]

500 new followers in two days! Thanks internet! Here’s Businesstown #11: The Patent Troll /

[symftr]

Fuck Nathan Myhrvold--richer than sin, yet holding progress back to make a tiny tiny bit more money.

[nunziopaci]

Nunzio Paci Solo Show ”In the Garden of Idne” Opening December 12, 2014 Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen

[symftr]

miocyon this seems like it hits several of your interests

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[miocyon]

These are my thoughts on children, exactly… Also, ball shaving…

[symftr]

Did someone say vasectomies and ball shaving? https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/pdx/41429115.html

[getacollegelife]

Umm.

I was all set to take French1, 2, and 3 as my foreign language requirement (you have to take up through Level 3). I’d taken French in high school, but I thought I was due for a series of refresher courses and couldn’t “test out” of any of them.

I just took the online French placement test. The good news is that now French1 and French2 have been eliminated from my curriculum.

The bad news is that now I have to jump right into French3. 

I didn’t know how to word this post without it sounding like a HumbleBrag, but I seriously didn’t plan on jumping into a college-level 3 French class. 

[symftr]

Have you ever heard of duolingo?  It should be on your radar for two reasons:

Luis von Ahn, the computer scientist who invented it, is a genius, and the software is fascinating. http://youtu.be/cQl6jUjFjp4

More practically, it could help you brush up on your French.

Good luck!

[symftr]

Doctor: What's wrong with your back? Louis CK: It hurts. Doctor: My professional diagnosis is your back hurts. Louis CK: Well what can I do about it? Doctor: Nothing. Louis CK: Nothing? Doctor: The problem is you're using it wrong. The back isn't done evolving yet. You see the spine is a row of vertebrae. It was designed to be horizontal and people came along and used it vertical. It wasn't meant for that, so the disks get all floppy, swolen, pop out left, pop out right. It's gonna take another i'd say 20000 years to get straightened out. Until then it's going to keep hurting. Louis CK: So that's it? Doctor: It's an engineering design problem. It's a misallocation. We were given a clothesline but are using it as a flagpole. Louis CK: So, so what should I do? Doctor: Use your back as it was intended. Walk around on your hands and feet. Or accept the fact that your back is going to hurt sometime. Be very grateful for the moments that it doesn't. Every second spent without back pain is a lucky second. String enough of those lucky seconds together and you have a lucky minute.

[miocyon]

(via Henry Fairfield Osborn’s Guide On How to be a Healthy Palaeontologist › Blogozoic)

The fact that I follow none of these probably explains a lot…

[symftr]

Not even the good hard rub down?

[liartownusa]

Blackfish & Friends

[symftr]

I would watch this.

[xombiedirge]

Lord of The Rings Map by Andrew DeGraff / Tumblr / Store

Part of the solo art show “Cartography”, opening Saturday March 29th 2014 at Gallery1988 / Tumblr.

[symftr]

miocyon I'm pretty sure we're going to this.

[symftr]

If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then, brother, that person is a piece of shit.

[liartownusa]

TED Talk: How to Fight a Cow by Col. Frank Tuplin

[symftr]

Finally a TED Talk I can get into.

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[miocyon]

Don’t forget: Dallas Buyers Club is just a movie, nothing more. It might be a really great movie (given its Oscar nominations and McConaughey’s winning Best Actor, it almost certainly is), but it’s not fact. It’s a fictionalized account of man’s battle with AIDS that is designed to entertain and uplift more than to teach about history and science.

“Right to try” laws and Dallas Buyers’ Club: Great movie, terrible for patients and terrible policy « Science-Based Medicine (via miocyon)

[symftr]

3/4? 7/16? 12/8? A Slate Investigation Into the Time Signature of The Terminator’s Score.

As The Terminator celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, the film continues to raise important questions. What are the risks to humanity of ascendant machine intelligence? How does a society correct the catastrophic missteps in its own past? And, most important, what the dickens is that weird time signature in...

[coconutmilk83]

Meryl Streep Outfits and the Star Wars Costumes That Inspired Them (✗)

[sttngfashion]

Hey! I made these! I know this isn’t Star Trek, IT’S YOUR ENEMY, STAR WARS, but I’m sure some of you will enjoy it. Here’s the link to the full post, which I created. The real crime is that when coconutmilk83 “borrowed” these from me, zie left off the BEST ONE, which is Bib Fortuna.

[wolfhard]

[symftr]

Tagging @miocyon