Letters to my little brother

against myself today because International Relations had nothing significant to contribute to metal growth. I’m beginning to think that IR stands for IRrelevant due to its focus on random and pointless political minutae with people asking even more random political questions to gain favor.

It was interesting playing chess with myself though. What followed was a dizzying amount of mind games. In the end, black won. When I looked at the body count though, White sacrificed 8 pieces while black gave up 12. Essentially, the victory went to the side that sacrificed more. C’est la vie.

Australian study confirms that entitlement is the enemy of excellence. Pair with the psychology of how to prevent such entitlement when raising children.  (via explore-blog)

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fashionfever:

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

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the things we look forward to most in life are the beginnings and endings. As humans, we have this tendency to skip through the trials and hardships of the middle. And it isn’t till the end of things that we get nostalgic.But these hardships, and suffering through them together is what I think makes these memories special. 

The Colbert Report’s STEPHEN COLBERT, on reports that PBS killed a documentary critical of one of the gazillionaire Koch brothers — a major public broadcasting supporter.

Ugh.

(via inothernews)

Billionare 34 times over, Twice as rich as Zuckerberg and maybe 4 times as evil.

nickmiller:

A Haiku in English

pachi9x9kissui-chan:

let-me-bleed:

In my Sociology class, we had to write every hurtful word we’ve ever been called on a sticky note and then stick it to our body. We then went around and took them off of each other. Most of us in tears…this is the aftermath.

…I have no words for this post.

(via reginafang)

Today I read over the sometimes interesting but mostly idiotic Did you Know! factoids. There was one that talked about how people with more friends are more likely to have better immune systems. Part of me always assumed that this meant to having friends and being happy meant you were healthier. 

But part of me rejects this hypothesis. What if people were actually vessels of germs and diseases, and the germs of every person you met will try and kill you. Because you spend more time with your friends, their germs have a higher chance of spreading. But because these germs are so weak, they die and act as fodder for your immune system than that, and thus strengthening it. Simply put, Your friends are your vaccines.

Even though I’m not a bio major, I think there are flaws with this notion, but as stupidity is too stupid to figure out its own stupidity, I am not sure what.

But on a personal level, it does have this poetic beauty to it. It would mean that for all their good intentions, your friends are weaker versions of your enemies, designed to strengthen you to taken them on. It would mean that the human body is incredibly strong, because it can take all the negative energy of the universe and make itself stronger, and thus take on more negative energy. And I think that is something wonderful unto itself.  

John Green on Ai Wei Wei