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Top 10 things i want my daughter -- and all young people -- to know on international women's day & Chookooloonks. Some rules i try to live by: Tips For A Better Life - Ham and Heroin. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Sleep for 7 hours. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy. Play more games. Read more books than you did the previous year. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

Dream more while you are awake. Top 10 Ways to Travel Smarter, Safer, and Cheaper - StumbleUpon. Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever - Music. The free five minute personality test! Your Existing Situation Desires to be respected by others in order to gain their trust and support for her own personal gain. Your Stress Sources "Wants the freedom to follow her own heart, goals, and dreams and to earn the respect as a unique individual. Desires to pursue every possible opportunity without limitations or things standing in her way.

" Your Restrained Characteristics "His desire to avoid open conflict and tension forces her to put her desires on hold, even though she is feeling restrained and uneasy. " Giving more than she is getting back and feels misunderstood and unappreciated. Current situations have left her feeling overwhelmed and tormented.

"Believes her hopes and dreams are realistic, but needs reassurance from others. Current events have her feeling forced to make bargains and put aside her own desires for now. she is able to find satisfaction and happiness through sexual activity. Your Desired Objective Your Actual Problem Your Actual Problem #2. 10 Famous Films That Surprisingly Fail The Bechdel Test | Film School Rejects. All this week, Film School Rejects presents a daily dose of our favorite articles from the archive. Originally published in September 2011, Ashe Cantrell applies the simple, ever-relevant Bechdel Test to a number of high profile movies… The Bechdel Test, if you’re not familiar with it, is a benchmark for movies developed by Alison Bechdel in 1985.

For a movie to pass The Bechdel Test, it must contain just one thing - a scene in which two or more named female characters have a conversation (that is, back and forth dialogue) about anything at all besides men. Anything, even if it’s something stereotypically feminine, like shopping or shoes. It could be about dog poo. It doesn’t matter. Sounds simple, right?

But it’s still surprising to find out that some of the most popular films of all time fail the test, and often for reasons you may have never considered. 10. 12 of the World's Most Fascinating Cemeteries | BootsnAll Travel Arti... Human beings have honored their dead since the dawn of time – even Neanderthals buried the fallen. In fact, burial is the oldest of human rituals. From simple stone dolmens to the glory of the pyramids, humans have spent a lot of time and energy providing the deceased with a decent send-off. Modern cemeteries run the gamut from park-like settings with simple gravestones to elaborate cities of the dead with architecture rivaling buildings designed for the living. Basic or bombastic, cemeteries tell us how people died, but also how they lived. Here are some of the most fascinating cemeteries on earth: Père Lachaise — Paris With over 70,000 burial places, Père Lachaise is Paris’s largest cemetery and one of the world’s most famous graveyards.

Victor, whose real name is Yvan Salman, was a French journalist who adopted the debonair “Victor Noir” as his pen name. In death, Monsieur Noir has become something of a fertility god known for his special powers. La Recoleta – Buenos Aires St. Life Hacks. Language: What foreign words are difficult to translate into English? If you cant say something nice, dont say anything at all. Emotional Bag Check. Hello, I find you perfectly toxic | Full Page - StumbleUpon. You spend some time with a person. You go out for a drink, you go to a ballgame, you get matching tattoos, you buy a timeshare in Vegas, you suck at the same giant blue margarita from the same giant pink straw, you howl at the moon and dance 'til dawn and have three unruly kids and regret only one of them.

You take that person to dinner, loan him or her a copy of "Jitterbug Perfume," you hang out after work, you talk about the thrum and pulse of time, sex, dim sum, the universe. It doesn't really matter. What matters is what comes next. Are you energized or depleted? This is the test. This is also the test I just discovered -- and paraphrased more or less verbatim -- via one Milton Glaser, who is a famous graphic designer, by way of a talk he gave in London about 10 years ago, in which he cites Fritz Perls, who is a famous gestalt therapist, who was probably citing something/someone else.

Is it not some form of perfect magic, this test? Doesn't matter. So we avoid.