Text Messages in China to Be Scanned for ‘Illegal Content’ A Win for Free Speech Online. I'm a 19 year old college student going through some sort of quarter-life-crisis type thing, does anyone have advice? : AskReddit. Why Chatroulette Is More Than Just Penises. Five months ago, right around the time that Andrey Ternovskiy was building Chatroulette, no one could have predicted that being "nexted" would become the modern day equivalent to a rite of passage.
But after three days of coding, Ternovskiy introduced his pet project for random video chat to friends, then users of Web forums, and from there things just spiraled. When the New York Times talked to the 17 year-old Ternovskiy earlier in the month, he confessed that, "Last month I saw 30 million unique visitors come to the Web site and one million new people visit each day. Why teaching is 'not like making motorcars' Teacher: Education is broken Educator says the school system is broken and must focus on individualsSir Ken Robinson: Schools today work like factoriesRobinson: "The problem is that educating young people is not like making motorcars"Comments came in an interview after the recent TED Conference (CNN) -- Sir Ken Robinson says our education system works like a factory.
Why Is There Peace? Over the past century, violent images from World War II concentration camps, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Iraq, and many other times and places have been seared into our collective consciousness.
These images have led to a common belief that technology, centralized nation-states, and modern values have brought about unprecedented violence. Our seemingly troubled times are routinely contrasted with idyllic images of hunter-gatherer societies, which allegedly lived in a state of harmony with nature and each other. The doctrine of the noble savage—the idea that humans are peaceable by nature and corrupted by modern institutions—pops up frequently in the writing of public intellectuals like, for example, Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, who argued that “war is not an instinct but an invention.”
A history of violence. At-Risk Youth. The gasmask in street art - graffiti Banksy Iconography. Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook. More Reasons Why You Should Still Quit Facebook. AmeriCorps to Help Fight Youth Violence. CNCS, Points of Light Announce Partnership with National Forum on Youth Violence Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Corporation for National and Community Service, in collaboration with Points of Light, announced the expansion of an AmeriCorps VISTA project to support the efforts of the National Forum on Youth Violence to promote pathways to opportunity for at-risk youth, while working to eliminate youth violence.
Building on the pilot project in Detroit, five cities including Boston; Chicago; Memphis, Tennessee; Salinas and San Jose, California will be able to sponsor up to two AmeriCorps VISTA members through the Points of Light VISTA program. These members will be dedicated to supporting the city's efforts around preventing youth violence – mobilizing and engaging volunteers, developing partnerships, and building public awareness. “Points of Light believes in the power of mobilizing communities to drive positive change.
Engaging youths in the community pays off in youth wellness and reduced violence. China scientists find use for cigarette butts. DEA Investigating Ledger Overdose. Actor Heath Ledger died after overdosing on a cocktail of six prescription drugs that included painkillers and anti-anxiety medication, the New York City medical examiner's office ruled today.
"Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine," medical examiner's spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said in a statement. According to the medical examiner's office, Ledger took "prescribed therapeutic doses ... or less" of each medication he ingested. However, the medications were not meant to be taken together. Welcome to the Weird Picture Archive - Weird Picture Archive. Eye Magic: Getting High from the Eye. Inducing altered states of mind without drugs The methods of altering states of consciousness are vast, and now to add to that list a psychologist in Italy has devised a technique to induce a drug-free trippy frame of mind.
Although, we can’t really say devised because he didn’t really create it, rather discovered is a better word to use, and so we shall use it. He made a trusty bunch of volunteers sit in a dimly lit room, then he placed them in pairs about 1 meter from each other, and made them stare into each other’s eyes for about ten minutes. It wasn’t long before the volunteers started seeing hallucinations, some of which included the perception of monsters, their relatives in the faces of their partners. Some volunteers even reported out of body experiences. Giovanni Caputo, (the psychologist mentioned above) stated that staring into another person’s eyes has a profound effect on the visual and mental state of the participants.
The Sad Truth: Nauseatingly profound illustrations of what the world is turning into. Report: 'The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep' By Carl- Johan Forssen Ehrlin. Every so often, a genuine publishing phenomenon emerges.
The latest one is no Harry Potter, but the reason for its meteoric rise to the top of Amazon's best-seller list is self-evident. On the cover of Carl- Johan Forssen Ehrlin's self-published The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep there's a sign that reads, "I can make anyone fall asleep" — and that's a promise sleep-deprived parents can't resist.
"They will go to anyone or anything that promises them heaven — your baby sleeping," says sleep expert Suzy Giordano. Hilarious Black Dude Answers White People's Most Burning Questions. Would You Send Your Kids To A (GASP) ... Witch Camp? Fun summer camp or place of evil?
I read all the Harry Potter books, except the last one. When You Laugh at Old Movies, the Joke Is On You. By Sam Adams | Criticwire April 28, 2015 at 2:44PM Keep your mouth shut, and let others have the experience you're too shallow to enjoy. 0000014d-0120-d703-affd-6d25191a0000 If you watch old movies in public, where "old" can mean any time before 1980, you've heard them, out there in the dark.
Crust Punk Porn Is as Grimy as You Think It Is. Myers and Alms.
Photos via their Tumblr It all started with Tumblr (because that's how things start these days). Look At This Fucking Oogle: Pornography For Homeless People is a Tumblr devoted to throwing up photos of crust punk kids, train-hopping vagrants in ripped fish nets—sometimes naked and sporting butt plugs—white people with dreads, and so, so many street dogs.
Spawned as a face-tatted, studded denim-vested version of that popular website Look at This Fucking Hipster, some people viewed it with noses turned up, others were looking for their friends, and a few squares got secretly turned on. Byron Myers, a crust punk welder living in Philadelphia, decided with his friends that it would be fun to make a sexy calendar devoted to the same thing, and to raise money to start an independent porn website featuring porn they'd want to watch. 10 Stunning Portraits Show Redheads Come in More Skin Colors Than White. There's a lot of mythology surrounding redheaded people, but one ignorant assumption trumps them all: Redheads are white. The reality? They're not. Photographer Michelle Marshall is raising awareness of this fact through her photo series "MC1R.
" The series, named after the gene variant responsible for red hair and freckles, features individuals of Afro-Carribbean descent who carry this gene and, therefore, embody certain aesthetic traits associated with redheads. 27 Badass Kids Who Cannot Be Stopped. McDonald's Server's "Porcelain Doll" Look Has Diners Lovin' It. Meet Shrek - The Renegade Sheep That Avoided Shearing For Six Years By Hiding In A Cave. August 20, 2015 This is Shrek, the appropriately-named renegade sheep that escaped and avoided shearing for SIX long years. modern farmer Shrek really, really, really did not like getting his hair cut. Biologists Are Tweeting Photos Of Animal Genitalia With The Hashtag #JunkOff. This Is Your Body in an Office Job vs. Your Body in a Physical Job. Centuries in the future, when our present-day selves are depicted as wax statues in museums, they'll probably come with little wax desks and little wax monitors. Our spines will be curled forward like macaroni noodles, our torsos will be paunchy, and though it would be hard to depict in wax, our brains would be cloudy and glum.
That's because we're a nation on its rear: According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, six of the seven most common well-paying jobs in the United States involve working in an office. After the deluge of studies showing sitting's ill effects, these health risks shouldn't come as a surprise. Designing the Future at SUNY Purchase. PURCHASE— THE fragrant aroma in Bill Lacy's office could be traced to a bowl of oranges, a distinctly personal touch for the new president of the State University's college here.
Although boxes of books remained unshelved in the spacious room recently vacated by his predecessor, Dr. Sheldon N. Grebstein, Mr. Lacy had unpacked the reassuring objects he called his toys: a kinetic sculpture made by a student at Cooper Union, where Mr. Lacy served as president from 1980 to 1988; a wooden head sculptured by his great-aunt and a wooden leg splint fashioned during World War II by his mentor and friend, the architect and furniture designer Charles Eames, who also gave Mr. The 59-year-old president, an architect who most recently was executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (often referred to as architecture's Nobel), had been in his job for three weeks, and already there were signs of change. Mobile. Requiem for a Dream (Literature) "If you ever find yourself inexplicably contented with your lot, slip this into your DVD player and normal service will be resumed... this is a film you watch once, then repair to the pub to stare fixedly into your beer for the night, vowing never, ever to watch it again.
" — Empire's Top 10 Most Depressing Movies (this is #1) Originally a novel written in 1978 by Hubert Selby, Jr., Requiem For A Dream was made into a movie by Darren Aronofsky in 2000. The story is about three friends and one friend's mother, who over the course of nine months (summer, fall, winter) have their lives destroyed by drug addiction.Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) is a twenty-something drug addict, who routinely steals his long-suffering mother's TV to pawn it for money. Home Page. UG Community @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com - 40 year old emo. F U C K: menu.
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