Peculiar.Cautious

My signed @teganandsara tee has been mounted and added to the...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:00:00 +1000

My signed @teganandsara tee has been mounted and added to the altar… I mean wall… Yes wall.

LEMON, god among mortals.

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:04:39 +1000

LEMON, god among mortals.

acqua-di-fiori: Weeping Willow - Claude Monet

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:20:03 +1000

acqua-di-fiori:

Weeping Willow - Claude Monet

tarts: “This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon calendar is made of...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:04:23 +1000

tarts:

“This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon calendar is made of brewable tea. Each day is made of fine pressed wafer thin tea leaves.”

this is a million years of ridic but there’s no way I’m not trying to diy this myself

Insanity, thy name is tea!

Andrew?

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:37:54 +1000

Andrew?

Amy Poehler with the Cluck singing the All-Clucking version of...

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:59:26 +1000

Amy Poehler with the Cluck singing the All-Clucking version of Some Nights
Buuuuuuuuuuck buuuuuck buuuuuuuuuuuu- BUCKAAH! AAAAH!!! (x)

robinmbrowne: On the night of December 6, 1959, in a mansion...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:06:42 +1000

robinmbrowne:

On the night of December 6, 1959, in a mansion that sits on a Los Feliz hilltop, Dr. Harold Perelson struck his wife to death with a hammer, severely beat his 18-year-old daughter, and then ended his own life by drinking a glass of acid. For the next fifty years, the mansion would remain completely untouched and uninhabited by anyone.

Local neighbors and brave visitors of the Perelson mansion have shared their tales. Through grimy windows, one can see a 1950s-style television set, a Christmas tree, and neatly-wrapped gifts. The furniture is covered in a thick layer of dust and the living room remains the exact same as it was that one December night.

explore-blog: How to find fulfilling work. Also see how to find...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:48:34 +1000

explore-blog:

How to find fulfilling work. Also see how to find your purpose and do what you love.

SO TRUE. SO VERY TRUE.

"Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:20:17 +1000

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Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices. Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.

In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other. Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.

In contrast, most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets interfere with intuitive navigation of a text and inhibit people from mapping the journey in their minds.

”

- Scientific American explores the reading brain in the digital age. Also see the death of the book through the ages, the publishing world on future of print and writers on the future of books. (via explore-blog)

popartinferno: My roommate and her boyfriend are in the shower together I know because they are in...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:43:12 +1100

popartinferno:

My roommate and her boyfriend are in the shower together

I know because they are in the bathroom next to my room and the walls in this house are paper thin

Welcome to my life.

viavivien: omfggg WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:46:21 +1100

viavivien:

omfggg

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT.

27 of History’s Strangest Inventions - Brain Pickings I...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:40:26 +1100

27 of History’s Strangest Inventions - Brain Pickings

I love this idea. We still need a solution for internet browsing in bed!

Virginia Woolf's views in 1926 on the inadequacies of adapting literature into film.

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:20:27 +1100

“So we lurch and lumber through the most famous novels of the world. So we spell them out in words of one syllable, written, too, in the scrawl of an illiterate schoolboy. A kiss is love. A broken cup is jealousy. A grin is happiness. Death is a hearse. None of these things has the least connexion with the novel…”

It’s worth noting that Woolf’s criticism is limited to early cinema, when adapting a book to film meant melodramatically depicting events in a book without considering the “language of cinema”, without making use of the particular advantages of the medium.

Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:39:17 +1100

Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms:

Another Ken Robinson talk on education. Paradigm shift required: move away from standardisation!

"If a man says something in a forest and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:14:05 +1100

“If a man says something in a forest and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?”

- One of Ken Robinson’s hilarious jokes told during his Ted Talk on the effects of traditional education on creativity. Check it out.

Maybe it's about time I revisited this...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:03:31 +1100

Maybe it's about time I revisited this...:

ltlymproject:

Learning to love you more: Project List

#1 Make a list of things you disliked at first but later learned to love

#2 Make a neighbourhood field recording

#3 Make a poster of shadows

#4 Draw a constellation from someone’s freckles

#5 Make a flier of your day

#6 Photograph a scar and write about it

#7 Write your life story in less…

whedonesqued: They have fantastic teeth as well Non-Whedonites...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:57:05 +1100

whedonesqued:

They have fantastic teeth as well

Non-Whedonites think he’s joking.

Whedonites know better.

The expectations of immigrant parents weigh heavily, but what happened to education for the sake of education?

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:20:03 +1100

emilybooks:

by Arianna Stern

When I was still in college, I checked groceries alongside an immigrant mom whose kid (I faintly remember him being a babe) was studying philosophy.

“What can he do with that degree?” she asked me, more out of befuddlement than dismay. I told her that maybe he could teach, but I wasn’t sure how valuable his degree would ever be. My coworker held three jobs and had barely any time to study English, which she eagerly wanted to do. It was easy to see how her son’s choice could seem wasteful or ungrateful. On the other hand, his mother spent much of her life making decisions based on financial return versus money and time invested. One of the things she earned—maybe – is for her son to escape that burden. Maybe for four years, he just gets to be happy. And maybe that leads to a job, and maybe it doesn’t immediately, or ever. Four years is still more than most people get.
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Paul Rudd dancing BUT WHERE IS GIF FROM CLUELESS??!

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:20:12 +1100

Paul Rudd dancing

BUT WHERE IS GIF FROM CLUELESS??!

"Altogether too much emphasis, I think, is being placed on what we ought to do, rather than what we..."

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:40:26 +1100

“Altogether too much emphasis, I think, is being placed on what we ought to do, rather than what we want to do.”

- William J. Reilly’s 1949 book “How to Avoid Work”