Artistic Science

sixpenceee:

Australia has started to test a network of drainage with mesh so that plastics and other pollutants do not reach rivers or sea. 

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lizziedoesvetschool:

litafficionado:

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…”
-Jorie Graham, in a conversation

This is why I love words, even though sometimes people laugh at things I drop into casual conversation. I was always so frustrated when I was younger and I couldn’t explain to my parents why their solution to my problems wouldn’t work, because I didn’t have the words for what I was actually feeling. So when I come across a word that narrows that definition down, I hold onto it because it makes me feel less alone - for there to be a word, someone else out there must have felt what I’m feeling right now. That’s such a powerful thing, and that’s why words are my one true love

Why Isn’t Tumblr Freaking Out?!?!

king-with-a-necktie:

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randomstuff-idontwannatalkboutit:

Guys. Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed!!!!

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed!

• Article 13 just got passed.

1. Article 13 just got passed.

I don’t know if I’ve said it enough. So…

ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!

I have been on tumblr all morning and haven’t seen one post about it yet! I don’t understand how!

ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!

It was a 438 to 226 fucking landslide vote too. (https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved)

They’re voting on it one last time in January 2019, but that’s barely any time to change anything!!!!

You still have time to call your MEPs so PLEASE!!! Do so.

If you’re outside of the EU, sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/axel-voss-save-the-internet-reject-article-13-and-11?recruiter=839558037&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

If you don’t know what this means, it’s basically then end of how the internet currently is in Europe. Memes? Nope. Youtubers? Bye!

You’d need a license for everything!!!!

And my fellow Americans my be all like, well, what’s the big deal for us? It’s a Europe deal.

No, because the Youtubers there that you love so much? This effects them too! I’m freaking out because Jack, the person who helps my depression go away, may no longer be able to do what he does!

Guys, we need to stop this somehow. Please.

Call your MEPs. Sign petitions. Protest (Peacefully please. Don’t get hurt).

I’m sorry for tagging you guys if you don’t want to be or already know, I just want as many people to know as possible!

I can’t tag everyone, but if you see this, please reblog it. Spread the news. Sign the petition. Call your MEPs. Do what you can to help stop this from passing in January.

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I don’t live in Europe but this needs to be spread

I’m spreading this because this is greatly unsettling to me. I live in europe and really can’t imagine how the future would look like.

I don’t live in Europe but I signed the petition and am signal boosting for all my EU pals. Call your MEPs!

Because they still have to vote for it two more times.. maybe .. that’s why?

All you Americans who are saying “I dont live in europe, but…”

You do understand how the internet *works*, right? You *WILL* feel the backlash from this if things go through the way they are going now.

this needs to be spread. article 13 will effect the world.

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epicjohndoe:

Caligula Wasn’t The Sharpest Tool In The Shed

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grungusdollar:

I had an epiphany

when youre both its out of control

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magicalgirlmindcrank:

>:3

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chibird:

Life isn’t about getting there the fastest. Life is full of beautiful and messy stops, bumps, and detours, and that’s part of what makes it interesting. 🐌✨

Loading Penguin Hugs is out now! | Instagram | Patreon

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illus. Keiji Kinebuchi

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soularmates:

wish i was snuggling not struggling

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Detective Pikachu.

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