Te llamo "amigo".

medicalschool: The human brain in cross section

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:48:09 -0400

medicalschool:

The human brain in cross section

abandonedography: 9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:13:20 -0400

abandonedography:

9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World

landscapelifescape: Torres del Paine, Chile Celestial...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:37:45 -0400

landscapelifescape:

Torres del Paine, Chile

Celestial Maelstrom by alexandre-deschaumes

"I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:32:31 -0400

“I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things: first, the streets weren’t paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all; and third, I was expected to pave them.”

- Italian Immigrant, 1900s (via thusreluctant)

I always forget that my friends have to go to work so I text them while they’re at work and...

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:18:47 -0400

I always forget that my friends have to go to work so I text them while they’re at work and then feel like crap afterwards but don’t feel like I should text them to say sorry because it would waste more of their time.

medicalschool: In the hippocampus, neural stem cells (green)...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:38:35 -0400

medicalschool:

In the hippocampus, neural stem cells (green) sit in a layer below their progeny, the granule neurons (red). When activated by extrinsic stimuli, they enter mitosis and generate neuron progenitor cells, which eventually mature into neurons and migrate into the layer above. The number of neural stem cells in the hippocampus decreases over time, possibly contributing to the cognitive impairment associated with aging. One hypothesis is that, after a rapid series of divisions, these neural stem cells disappear via their conversion into astrocytes.

Image: Section of a mouse hippocampus imaged with Zeiss LSM 50 confocal microscope with a 40X C-Apochromat water-immersion objective lens (N.A. value 1.2, working distance 220 microns) at 62x magnification. Brain slices were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde, immunolabeled, and then cleared in FocusClear (CelExplorer, Taiwan).

"Item. The student radical, heart filled with sympathy for poor workers, turns to the Farm Workers’..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:38:18 -0400

“Item. The student radical, heart filled with sympathy for poor workers, turns to the Farm Workers’ struggle as one clearly meriting his support. Typically he does not “go to the people” by going to work in the fields like other workers; for should his special talents be buried under a clod? He goes to work “for the union”, i.e., as what the union calls a student volunteer. Impressed by his own self-sacrifice on the one hand, on the other he finds that the Farm Workers union scarcely measures up to his ideal of what the class struggle should look like. Pretty soon he complains that the student volunteers “have no say” in policy, i.e., he demands that powers of decision be partly shifted out of the union members’ hands and into those of the alien-class visitors who have deigned to donate their time. Or, finding that the internal life and democracy of the union are far from satisfactory, he may decide that the Farm Workers do not really deserve his support. He would bestow his saving presence only on certified-pure class struggles taking place on a different planetary plane.”

- Hal Draper- Anatomy of the Microsect (via red-letter-words)

"The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:36:33 -0400

“The real value of a real education … has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness.”

- David Foster Wallace (via explore-blog)

"Respond esthetically to all sounds, from the hum of the refrigerator motor or the paddling of oars..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:36:25 -0400

“Respond esthetically to all sounds, from the hum of the refrigerator motor or the paddling of oars on a lake, to the tones of a cello or muted trumpet.”

- How to Listen to Music – a wonderful vintage guide to the 7 essential skills of listening. (via explore-blog)

landscapelifescape: Kafjord, Norway Night lights by Kiredjian...

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:35:25 -0400

landscapelifescape:

Kafjord, Norway

Night lights by Kiredjian Joris

"Proletarians arrive at communism ..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:23:12 -0400

“Proletarians
arrive at communism
from below -
by the low way of mines,
sickles,
and pitchforks -
But I,
from poetry’s skies,
plunge into communism,
because
without it
I feel no love.”

- Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Back Home” (1925)

YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME, OZZ! YOU JUST CAN'T.

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:49:52 -0400

I’m going to wear a skirt to school again tomorrow because an Engineering student named Ozz...

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:44:57 -0400

I’m going to wear a skirt to school again tomorrow because an Engineering student named Ozz isn’t going to stop me from doing what I want to do.

explore-blog: Dorion Sagan on the spirit of science and its...

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:06:45 -0400

explore-blog:

Dorion Sagan on the spirit of science and its necessary connection to philosophy.

"Marx shows that accumulation and technological change under capitalism means an increase in the..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:53:19 -0400

“Marx shows that accumulation and technological change under capitalism means an increase in the absolute number of unemployed - a trend that could be reversed, under the assumptions of the model, only briefly in periods of extraordinary expansion. Unemployment and underemployment are produced by capital. The working class is consequently faced with an endemic crisis with respect to job security, wage rates, conditions of work, etc.”

- David Harvey, The Limits to Capital, pg 161 (via jayaprada)

"The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:36:54 -0400

“The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less and less until she knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything.”

- Dorion Sagan on science and philosophy (via explore-blog)

fuckyeahamericanart: drawpaintprint: Winslow Homer: On a Lee...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:34:45 -0400

fuckyeahamericanart:

drawpaintprint:

Winslow Homer: On a Lee Shore (1900)

I'm the most embarrassing person in the world.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:39:51 -0400

"Cheerfulness, unaffected cheerfulness, a sincere desire to please and be pleased, unchecked by any..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:43:14 -0400

“Cheerfulness, unaffected cheerfulness, a sincere desire to please and be pleased, unchecked by any efforts to shine, are the qualities you must bring with you into society, if you wish to succeed in conversation. … a light and airy equanimity of temper,—that spirit which never rises to boisterousness, and never sinks to immovable dullness; that moves gracefully from “grave to gay, from serious to serene,” and by mere manner gives proof of a feeling heart and generous mind.”

- The art of conversation, 1866 (via explore-blog)

explore-blog: Susan Sontag, reconstructionist.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:41:43 -0400

explore-blog:

Susan Sontag, reconstructionist.