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suicideblonde: Keira Knightley photographed by Ellen von...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:45:27 -0400

suicideblonde:

Keira Knightley photographed by Ellen von Unwerth for Harper’s Bazaar UK, September 2012

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kenna-bean: TIPS FOR WRITERS Body Language

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:07:27 -0400

kenna-bean:

TIPS FOR WRITERS

Body Language

maudelynn: The Satyr and the Nymphs Turn of the Century...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:52:39 -0400

maudelynn:

The Satyr and the Nymphs

Turn of the Century Naughty postcard

le-revenant: pathwalker: rasputin: This Blood Lamp doesn’t...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:37:12 -0400

le-revenant:

pathwalker:

rasputin:

This Blood Lamp doesn’t look that bloody, but the way you turn it on can be considered gruesome. It only works once, and you need to add of a drop of your blood to activate it! The idea is to stop and think about how badly you need light before you use it. Designer Mike Thompson created the lamp in order to draw attention to how much energy we waste.

we can finally power the world with periods

there are two kinds of people

prettyresults: Lilith, by Hector...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:09:05 -0400

prettyresults:

Lilith, by Hector Pineda.

http://hectorpineda.deviantart.com/art/LILITH-291299261

holyandros: First formal libation today, reading from the...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:05:09 -0400

holyandros:

First formal libation today, reading from the Orphic hymn to Eros. First lighting of the incense I chose for him as well - definitely stronger than the other types I use, the rose notes are a sharp floral even when burning. Libation offered is chilled milk with grated orange peel. It’ll be time to replace his candle/s soon - I’ll likely just buy new ones entirely, since I plan on turning the current candle cups into offering ware once they finish burning out.

I would have liked to put some new cuttings in today for him, but I basically spent all day outside doing yard work. Maybe during the week! I’m waiting for our peonies to bloom so I can bring a few in for him, it will look really beautiful.

stfuconservatives: vortexanomaly: it’s a trap Incidentally, I...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:30:58 -0400

stfuconservatives:

vortexanomaly:

it’s a trap

Incidentally, I got an email today about this petition to keep student loan rates from doubling in July. You should sign it.

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5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:50:47 -0400

5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think:

jazzseeksjustice:

divineirony:

To say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger.

“All of this information is obligatory. Chinese doesn’t let me ignore it,” says Chen. “In fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it.”

This got Chen wondering: Is there a connection between language and how we think and behave? In particular, Chen wanted to know: does our language affect our economic decisions?

Chen designed a study — which he describes in detail in this blog post — to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for the future. According to his results, it does — big time.

While “futured languages,” like English, distinguish between the past, present and future, “futureless languages,” like Chinese, use the same phrasing to describe the events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Using vast inventories of data and meticulous analysis, Chen found that huge economic differences accompany this linguistic discrepancy. Futureless language speakers are 30 percent more likely to report having saved in any given year than futured language speakers. (This amounts to 25 percent more savings by retirement, if income is held constant.) Chen’s explanation: When we speak about the future as more distinct from the present, it feels more distant — and we’re less motivated to save money now in favor of monetary comfort years down the line.

But that’s only the beginning. There’s a wide field of research on the link between language and both psychology and behavior. Here, a few fascinating examples:

Navigation and Pormpuraawans
In Pormpuraaw, an Australian Aboriginal community, you wouldn’t refer to an object as on your “left” or “right,” but rather as “northeast” or “southwest,” writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (and an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal. About a third of the world’s languages discuss space in these kinds of absolute terms rather than the relative ones we use in English, according to Boroditsky. “As a result of this constant linguistic training,” she writes, “speakers of such languages are remarkably good at staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes.” On a research trip to Australia, Boroditsky and her colleague found that Pormpuraawans, who speak Kuuk Thaayorre, not only knew instinctively in which direction they were facing, but also always arranged pictures in a temporal progression from east to west.

Blame and English Speakers
In the same article, Boroditsky notes that in English, we’ll often say that someone broke a vase even if it was an accident, but Spanish and Japanese speakers tend to say that the vase broke itself. Boroditsky describes a study by her student Caitlin Fausey in which English speakers were much more likely to remember who accidentally popped balloons, broke eggs, or spilled drinks in a video than Spanish or Japanese speakers. (Guilt alert!) Not only that, but there’s a correlation between a focus on agents in English and our criminal-justice bent toward punishing transgressors rather than restituting victims, Boroditsky argues.

Color among Zuñi and Russian Speakers
Our ability to distinguish between colors follows the terms in which we describe them, as Chen notes in the academic paper in which he presents his research (forthcoming in the American Economic Review; PDF here). A 1954 study found that Zuñi speakers, who don’t differentiate between orange and yellow, have trouble telling them apart. Russian speakers, on the other hand, have separate words for light blue (goluboy) and dark blue (siniy). According to a 2007 study, they’re better than English speakers at picking out blues close to the goluboy/siniy threshold.

Gender in Finnish and Hebrew
In Hebrew, gender markers are all over the place, whereas Finnish doesn’t mark gender at all, Boroditsky writes in Scientific American (PDF). A study done in the 1980s found that, yup, thought follows suit: kids who spoke Hebrew knew their own genders a year earlier than those who grew up speaking Finnish. (Speakers of English, in which gender referents fall in the middle, were in between on that timeline, too.)

Fascinating!

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luxoccultapress: Tetractys Mandala

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:48:14 -0400

luxoccultapress:

Tetractys Mandala

likeafieldmouse: Gregory Euclide - Otherworldly: Optical...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:47:52 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Gregory Euclide - Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities (2011) - Oil on canvas landscape, collected litter and other materials from Central Park, NYC

Artist’s statement:

“I painted a large traditional landscape that flows onto the floor and toward a fifth-floor window overlooking Central Park. The work consists of several dioramas built from materials that were collected on walks as well as several paper casts from boulders in Central Park.”

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curlingwithmetaphor: morethanyourimage: charminghook: Supernat...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:00:20 -0400

curlingwithmetaphor:

morethanyourimage:

charminghook:

Supernatural 6x10: Castiel Watches Porn

His concentration face when he said “it was there”

HAHAHAHA.

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cavesoflilith: Petrova Julian

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:51:21 -0400

cavesoflilith:

Petrova Julian