chasingcomics:

The Man Who Lives Alone

My Intro to Comics final about ghosts and love.

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operatory5:

“Radiograph of left hand, viewed from the back, showing the gunshot fracture of third, and fourth metacarpal bones. The distal end of the third metacarpal, fractured by contact; the distal end of the fourth metacarpal entirely destroyed by the missile.” Private John T. Sullivan, Company F, 13th US Infantry wounded during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The picture was published in ‘The Use of the Roentgen Ray in the Late War with Spain’, p. 66, pl. XIV.

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sexxxisbeautiful:

okcupidvillains:

versatilequeen:

Call out your bros.

I have literally never seen a guy tell another guy that he is being sexist, misogynist, or slut-shamey.

 Not even once.

Call out your bros.

Wanna be a male feminist? This is the only way, The. Only. Way.

^^^

archaeosharon:

In 1968, Leonard Nimoy was moved by a girl’s difficulty fitting in, so he wrote to her about how Spock overcame prejudice.

In light of the new Star Trek movie coming out sometime soon (don’t actually remember when, sorry..), I wanted to share this piece.  Found it a while ago and thought it was really special.

fyeah-history:

A cello player in the partially destroyed National Library, Sarajevo, during the war in 1992

we-are-star-stuff:

Who says North is up?

Upside Down maps (also known as South-Up or Reversed maps) offer a completely different perspective of the world we live in.

Technically speaking, even referring to the earth with words like “up” or “down” or comparing places with words “above” or “below” is flawed, considering that the earth is a spherical body (it’s actually slightly “fatter” at the equator) and flying through 3 dimensional space with no reference of up or down. However, the issue of “up” and “down” does become an issue when viewing the surface of the earth projected onto a flat piece of paper (a map). And the effect of the orientation of a map is more significant than you might realize.

As all maps require orientation for reference, the issue of how to layout the map orientation is as old as maps themselves. As map orientation is completely arbitrary, it is not surprising that they differed throughout time periods and regions.

The convention of North-up is usually attributed to the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (90-168 AD). Justifications for his north-up approach vary. In the middle ages, East was often placed at top. This is the origin of the term “The Orient” to refer to East Asia. During the age of exploration, European cartographers again followed the north-up convention…perhaps because the North Star was their fixed reference point for navigation, or because they wanted (subconsciously or otherwise) to ensure Europe’s claim at the top of the world.

In modern times, reversed maps are made as a learning device or to illustrate Northern Hemisphere bias. Different from simply turning a north-up map upside down, a reversed map has the text oriented to be read with south up.

The famous “Blue Marble” photograph of the Earth taken from on board Apollo 17 was originally oriented with the south pole at the top, with the island of Madagascar visible just left of center, and the continent of Africa at its right. However, the image was turned upside-down to fit the traditional view.

While the orientation of a map might seem harmless, it can have a significant effect on one’s perception of the world, and the relative importance of the different place in it.

In speech, we often refer to places being “above” or “below” others. Think of how you would say you’re about to travel to the state or country to your north or south (to go “down” to Kentucky from Indiana, or “up” to Canada from the US). Without even mentioning geography, ask any grade school student whether Mexico is “above” or “below” the United States. We’re all familiar with the “land down under”. As we often correlate importance to relative height (think how a citizens of a country will fly their flag higher than all other flags), the north-up convention reinforces the idea that northern bodies are more important than their southern neighbors. Suddenly, traveling “down” to the South might have an inference much deeper than geographic location.

After looking at the map more closely, you may realize that the South-Up orientation may change your perception of the relative status of different places. For example, South America suddenly looks to have more prominence, and Africa and the Middle East completely dwarf Europe. Likewise, tucking Northern Europe, Canada, and Russia away at the bottom of the map, subconsciously takes away their status.

To summarize, unconditionally accepting the north-up map convention without at least appreciating the effect stands at odds with viewing all people and places within the world equally. x x

cupcakesnotbombs:

ancestryinprogress:

lifekillsrebels:

suckyeahrandomgifs:

Why I love Recess, especially Miss Grotke

Images 1, 7, 8: she’s a feminist

Image 5: notice how she’s talking about endangered species and on the wall, there is a poster of Earth Day

Image 6: she’s aware of and against white supremacy and eurocentrism

Images 2, 3, 4, 6: history teachers are technically not allowed to give their opinion they’re just supposed to teach what’s in the books, but she doesn’t care and makes sure her students know it

Black and white version here [x]

Reblogging again for that commentary.

I am her right this minute. Y’all have no idea, lol.

miss grotke!!

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shortformblog:

politicalprof:

markcoatney:

colchrishadfield:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

Honestly, this is even better than you think it will be.

Politicalprof: If NASA marketed itself this way, we’d already have colonies on Mars…

All of our astronauts should be this self-aware.

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wnycradiolab:

Isao Hashimoto’s extraordinary musical map of every nuclear explosion since 1945.

To the extent there can BE such a thing as an audio infographic, this is it.

(via we-are-star-stuff)

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shovelbum:

womaninterrupted:

Ygritte: Kissed by fire and telling it like it is since before the wall.

BOOM.

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manjolras:

we’d probably already have hoverboards if we didn’t spend so much time arguing over whether women are people and if they should be allowed to do science

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bon-bon:

The older I get the more I realise there are no grown ups and nobody knows what the fuck they’re doing.

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handsome-squidward:

gameandwatch:

natsugay:

For all of you that believe that vulgarity in music is only from contemporary times then just remember that mozart wrote a song called lick my ass

Proof for those of us that are unaware

I’m crying listen to it

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