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What Steven Moffat Doesn’t Understand About Grief, And Why It’s Killing Doctor Who. There’s a popular joke I’ve seen floating around on Tumblr for a while now.

What Steven Moffat Doesn’t Understand About Grief, And Why It’s Killing Doctor Who

It goes like this: “Joss Whedon, Steven Moffat and George R.R. Martin walk into a bar and everyone you’ve ever loved dies.” Here’s the problem, though: George R. R. Ashley Walter - Messages. I hate Strong Female Characters. I hate Strong Female Characters.

I hate Strong Female Characters

As someone spends a fair amount of time complaining on the internet that there aren’t enough female heroes out there, this may seem a strange and out of character thing to say. The Mad Tumblr. The 100 Best Movies Streaming on Netflix Right Now. Metaphor in psychoanalysis: Bane or blessing?: EBSCOhost. Same dude who did the "A Painful Pot". His work is absolutely breathtaking. Source for this as well as his notes at the end will be in the comments because I am bad at imgur and can't figure out how to put it in the album itself. It's called "Conversion"

Sophia Walker - "Two Faced Love" Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen. My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It - Matt Duron. Weighed Down by the Baggage of Chivalry. This weekend, a man insisted on holding a door for me and I felt a small twinge of anger.

Weighed Down by the Baggage of Chivalry

I’ve had this feeling before. It usually comes when a guy is doing something “nice” for me. Sure, holding the door is a polite gesture, but I can’t help but ask: Why is he doing that? What’s the motive? What’s the assumption? I am very capable of holding a door open for myself. Nature Valley Trail View. Beautiful Pathologies. Private Lives: Personal essays on the news of the world and the news of our lives.

Beautiful Pathologies

At our medical school, we have something called the organ transplant observation program, which allows students to shadow the doctors who transfer functional organs from deceased or living donors into the bodies of dying patients. 10 YouTube Channels That Will Make You Smarter. 25 Apps You'll Need to Survive College. College isn't all fun and games (unless you want it to be.)

25 Apps You'll Need to Survive College

Don't sweat it, though. Take a look at these 25 apps — they'll give you a smoother college experience by helping you study smarter, connect with new people and wake up in time for your early lectures. Your university probably has its own app, too — download it. It will provide you with a more tailored breakdown than a national application. Any helpful ones we missed? 6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full of Crap. #3.

6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full of Crap

Searching for Sugar Man -- Sugar Man Was Touring, Shooting Up the Charts in the '80s Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images The Film: Searching for Sugar Man is the tale of two South African music fans going on a quest to find a mysterious American singer called Rodriguez, who had become huge in their country but whose whereabouts were unknown. What the U.S. Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen Sex. The Dutch are known for their liberal attitudes toward sex and drugs: while not officially legal, marijuana use and sale in “coffee shops” is tolerated in The Netherlands, as is prostitution, most notoriously in the street windows of Amsterdam’s red light district.

Pragmatism, the Dutch have long believed, is better than punitive prohibition — and they’ve got lots of data on their side.While 12% of the American population has smoked marijuana in the last month, for example, the same is true of only 5% of citizens of The Netherlands. (More on Time.com: 5 Little-Known Truths About American Sex Lives) As Salon reports, this practical attitude — and data favoring it — extends to teenage sex.

Two-thirds of Dutch parents allow their 15-to-17-year-old children to sleep with their partners in their homes, according to a 2003 survey cited by the Salon post. The differences between the cultures, and between the parenting styles in each country, are many, but key among them is attitude toward sex. The Truth About the Hookup Culture Among College Students. Recent claims about the hookup culture among college students are greatly exaggerated, it seems.

The Truth About the Hookup Culture Among College Students

Despite racy headlines suggesting that college kids are increasingly choosing casual liaisons over serious relationships, a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association finds that just under one-third of college students have had more than one partner in the past year. 11 Convenient Sites for Cheap Textbooks. 5 Most Overrated Exercises You Can Stop Doing. 10 Sharp iTunes U Courses for Back-to-School. As the summer ends and the back-to-school sales start haunting your shopping centers, ease into the academic season with some free educational podcasts.

10 Sharp iTunes U Courses for Back-to-School

The iTunes U app gives you access to courses from universities and learning centers around the world, ranging from Stanford to Yale to MoMA to the New York Public Library. According to its website, iTunes U is the largest database of educational material on the web. If every display of school supplies you see makes you nostalgic for your grade school or college years, iTunes U may fill your thirst for the classroom. Here are our picks for the 10 best courses from the iTunes U education arsenal. 10 OpenCourseWare Sites for a Free Education. What Every College Student Should Post on LinkedIn. Are you waiting until after graduation to start building up your LinkedIn profile?

What Every College Student Should Post on LinkedIn

It's time to reconsider. "Every student is blindly trying to make a resume, but surprisingly many don't have great LinkedIn profiles," says Natan Edelsburg, senior vice president at Sawhorse Media. "I often hear, 'Here's my resume. My LinkedIn isn't great, but here's the link.' I usually respond, 'Make it great, and then get back to me! '" Thirty-seven percent of surveyed job recruiters identified social professional networks as one of the most important sources for hiring.

How Breaking Bad broke free of the clockwork-universe problem. Late in Breaking Bad’s upcoming season-five part-two première, Walter White makes a leap of logic that seems somewhat ridiculous for the man to make.

How Breaking Bad broke free of the clockwork-universe problem

He has very little evidence to support it. He has no particular reason to feel the way he does—outside of one thing he should never have noticed. 'Doctor Who' Explained in 25 GIFs. Die-hard Whovians have been looking forward to the season 7 part 2 premiere of Doctor Who since December. But let's assume that you've never heard of a time-traveling alien in a blue telephone booth and have no idea what TARDIS stands for. You don't fear the Daleks, and couldn't care less about Cybermen. That's OK!

The Doctor has been around since 1963, and he's always looking for new companions. Before you join the Whovian fleet, you must first understand the Time Lord who started it all. 18 Best Tools To Analyze Your Twitter Hotness. Pretty much everyone that joins Twitter has a certain plan in mind to conquer this highly respected social media networking tool. Graphin' Your Stats. The Gay Christian Network. Justin’s View The following opinion was written by Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, who believes God blesses same-sex marriages. 12 Things You Shouldn't Be Cooking With Olive Oil. 34 Insanely Simple Two-Ingredient Recipes.

Faith Online. The End of Anxiety. Trans Etiquette Graphic – en. 5 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About Ancient Civilizations. To Slide or to Slice? Finding a Positive Sexual Metaphor. I'm lonely. Is that so odd? DO CATS HAVE EMOTIONS? DO CATS HAVE EMOTIONS?