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Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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yes. 

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Janelle Monae attends the 2018 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 24, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

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via Kristen Kish’s New Cookbook Helped Me Wine and Dine My Valentine and So Can You

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(171030) cjes.tagram: - 이런 역대급 혜자 팬미팅은 처음이지?👍🏻 재중과 함께한 1분, 1초가 너무 소중했던 추억! - We won’t forget every single #moment of last #night #Thank_you_all See you soon at #fanmeeting on Nov. 5th in #Taiwan

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#100days100women Day 58: Qui Jin Qui Jin was a part of revolutionary groups working for the overthrow of the Quing Dynasty in early 20th -century China. Found out by the authorities she refused to leave her school, and was arrested and publicly executed. Her execution soured public opinion and she was immediately seen as a martyr. She was also a poet, writer, editor, teacher, martial artist, swords-woman and enjoyer of suits. She was a passionate feminist and advocate of women’s rights, and remains a symbol of women’s independence to this day.

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Green windowpane and blue.

- Ascot Chang 

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like a seed. 

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Skin,

Winter 2018

Instagram - Intimate diary

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🌿Lavender Pin by HEMLEVA🌿

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new patches in the shop!

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Rose | Indie

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Photography by Xuebing DU

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Eatin’ Seeds

by  Saṃsāran

Our main source of food these days is seeds. Seeds include peas, corn, beans, rice, nuts, soy, and, of course, grains. Grains are grass seeds. It is doubtful that mankind ate many seeds aside from nuts in our early days. Seeds require considerable processing to be made edible. Some are even poisonous unless they are properly treated with chemicals. 

Seeds are good food because they contain food intended for the sprouting plant. Most seeds have a husk, the hard outer shell (bran), the nut (endosperm), the part containing the nutrition and the germ which is the plant embryo. To eat most seeds the husk must be mechanically broken and removed. Then the nut part of the seed must be either milled into flour and baked, boiled or fried.

So for ten thousand years mankind ate bread or porridge and this was how we got our grain food. It wasn’t until 100 years ago that John Harvey Kellogg an eccentric doctor figured out that you could mill the grain, roll it, extrude it, mix it with malt and then serve it with milk and sugar for breakfast. This was the first new method  of eatin’ seeds mankind had come up with since the last ice age and it provided an all new market for the vast tracts of grain being planted in the American midwest.

Fun Fact: Wheat is the most common grain with rice coming in a close second. Wheat grew wild in one place in the world in what we now call the Middle East present day Iraq at the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This is where civilization started. Oddly enough this is also the one place where the Bible locates Eden. Genesis 2:10 –14  Eden means “well watered” in Aramaic. Myth based on some dimly remembered fact?