rumagin:

I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon. It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. When confronted with “privilege,” they fiddle with the word itself, and haul out the dictionaries and find every possible way to talk about the word but not any of the things the word signifies.

(via Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is)

I’m not really sure how I feel about this. I mean, taking advantage of people who are genuinely looking for help is bad. But there is so much bullshit in the alternative medicine industry. I’m hoping this will point out some of the absurdity.

Cultural appropriation aside, it looks fairly interesting. I really don’t have much knowledge of the 60s guru craze, other than knowing it happened. I’m interested to learn more.

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.” – Mark Twain

The fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx, has been observed to engage in fellatio during mating. Pairs spend more time copulating if the female licks the male than if she does not.^[39][40]

Ugh why did I find this? Now I have to post it… Anyhow, the book doesn’t sounds that great. It’s actually cruder than I expected.

I miss Socks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socks_(cat)

discoverynews:

picturedept:

Found Photos in Detroit

When Italian photographers Arianna Arcara and Luca Santese set foot in Detroit, they had planned to document the fast disappearance of the city’s structure. The tragic tales of modern day decadence and ruin were very much on their minds. But Detroit, in a last gesture of pride decided to reveal itself on its own terms. What they found, streets filled with thousands of polaroids, letters, prints of photographic evidence, police documents, mugshots and family albums, are all on view in their fantastic new book Found Photos in Detroit.

The book is limited to 1000 copies, and can be ordered here. You can also see more images from the project, which was featured in this week’s Newsweek International edition, on our website.
CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE

This is breathtaking. We love this new Newsweek Tumblr. The design is amazing. Amazing enough to bookmark now.

Not available in stores! The best punk mix of the 90s, haha.

Kitty likes watermelon.

This is this scariest thing I have ever seen. (No CGI)

discoverynews:

imwithkanye:

Peter Dinklage | Rolling Stone [via]

This cover makes us feel ok about our Rolling Stone subscription after all.

expertcosmotips:

he came alright

laughterkey:

Amy Poehler on Tumblr.