Suchow_star_chart_rubbing.jpg (JPEG Image, 745 × 482 pixels) Her Royal Majesty : Photo. Santa Claus White? Fox News’ Megyn Kelly thinks so. But Santa’s not real. Fox News Earlier this week, I argued that our image of Santa Claus should no longer be a white man, but, instead, a penguin.
I hoped the piece would come across as a little tongue-in-cheek, while at the same time expressing my real concern that America continues to promote the harmful idea of whiteness-as-default. Over the past couple of days, I’ve received a lot of responses. Some of them were positive—mostly because, as I said in the piece, people love penguins. Aisha Harris is a Slate staff writer. But many responses have (unsurprisingly) been negative. But the “controversy” reached its apex last night when Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, along with three (white) guests discussed the topic on her show, The Kelly File. Since Fox didn’t bother reaching out to me personally to debate the issue at hand, I’ll offer up my own response here. Ворона катается на майонезной крышке. The Sexist Hype Around the Obamas and Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
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YZUZrPN.gif (GIF Image, 500 × 281 pixels) 32 Mugshots & Knockout Games. Mugshot of boxer Mike Tyson used to combine both subjects of the article Nothing spoils my marginally okay mood than a message that something’s wrong with you because of what you are.
Although the message isn’t directed at me as a singular person, the message usually encompasses everyone in the group to which I share physical similarities. ZxYkYR1.jpg (JPEG Image, 3264 × 1840 pixels) - Scaled (31%) Nothing good ever does. d7XYT6X.jpg (JPEG Image, 970 × 546 pixels) EZZHN70.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 450 pixels) Amazing Shadow Sculptures by Tim Noble and Sue Webster. From discarded wood, welded scrap metal, broken tools, cigarette packets, soda cans and piles of trash, Tim Noble and Sue Webster make assemblages and then point light to create projected shadows of people standing, sitting, smoking, drinking or anything easily recognizable.
Every debris is precisely set in place, taking into consideration its distance from the wall, and its angle with the spotlight. The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones. More artwork by Tim Noble and Sue Webster can be found in their gallery. Communications Designer. Tumblr_mvnlw8v0Pj1sfo4yxo1_r2_400.gif (GIF Image, 333 × 250 pixels) A Lego Set for Budding Architects, With No Instructions. Architecture Studio, a new set from Lego, comes with 1,210 white and translucent bricks.
More notable is what it lacks: namely, instructions for any single thing you’re supposed to build with it. Instead, the kit is accompanied by a thick, 277-page guidebook filled with architectural concepts and building techniques alongside real world insights from prominent architecture studios from around the globe. In other words, this box o’ bricks is a little different. Where past Lego products might have had the happy ancillary effect of nurturing youngsters’ interest in architecture, here, that’s the entire point. Seventy-three different kinds of bricks are included in the set. BJJ Drills with Gabriel Rainho. HOW TO FIGHT A BABY. 00061855.jpg (JPEG Image, 560 × 678 pixels) Zoetrope. A modern replica of a Victorian zoetrope A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.
The name zoetrope was composed from the Greek root words ζωή zoe, "life" and τρόπος tropos, "turning". The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. Spin+screen.gif (GIF Image, 355 × 200 pixels) Mushroom Observer: Observation: Mycena chlorophos (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Sacc. (33207) Panellus stipticus : Luminescent Panellus Culture Syringe. Cultivation Difficulty: ModerateType: NoveltySubstrate: variety of woods , grain, and agar formulasColonization/Fruiting Temperatures: 65-80F/60-75F The mushroom that glows in the dark!
After working with several species of bioluminescent fungi, we have selected Panellus stipticus for ease of cultivation and reliable glowing effects. The mycelium gives off relatively low levels of greenish light and is only visible in complete darkness after about 5 minutes of allowing your eyes to adjust. The cultures do not glow early in their growth and may take several weeks to begin producing visible amounts of light.
The glow is dependant on available oxygen and dramatic and sudden increases in brightness can be achieved when cultures are exposed to the open air. In nature, Pan. stipticus is found growing on logs and is shaped somewhat like a small leathery oyster mushroom. The cultures are sold as a novelty only and do not produce edible or internally medicinal mushrooms. Omphalotus nidiformis : Ghost Fungus Culture Syringe. Cultivation Difficulty: Moderate Type: Novelty Edibility: Toxic, Gastrointestinal Substrate: Wood Natural Habitat: Dead and dying trees Colonization/Fruiting Temperatures: 65-78F/55-65F The Ghost Fungus is a bioluminescent species from southern Australia.
The mushroom's gills generate the brightest illumination with the mycelium not appearing to glow at all. In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act. Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years.
He’s been searched more than 100 times. And arrested and jailed 56 times. Despite his long rap sheet, Sampson, 28, has never been convicted of anything more serious than possession of marijuana. Miami Gardens police have arrested Sampson 62 times for one offense: trespassing. Almost every citation was issued at the same place: the 207 Quickstop, a convenience store on 207th Street in Miami Gardens. iQEjWyO.gif (GIF Image, 250 × 250 pixels) The Wind Rises - Exclusive Official Trailer. Chi-chi-rodriguez-hits-himself-in-the-nuts.gif (GIF Image, 500 × 280 pixels) PyroPet Candle Company. This Mom Lets Her 4-Year-Old Finish Her Drawings, And The Results Are Hilarious! Source: busymockingbird.com “If you can’t share, we’ll have to take it away.”
She had used her own mother’s words against her, and now Mica had no choice but to indulge Myla. She let her daughter finish one of her sketches, and pretty soon, they had a whole collection of collaborations. Source: busymockingbird.com After a while, Myla would start the day by flipping through her mom’s sketchbook asking, “Do you have any heads for me today?”
What D&D Character Am I? 1. As far as looks go, I am... ugly, I am the worst looking member of my social circle. average, my appearance is normal overall. attractive, I am the best looking member of my social circle. extremely attractive, my appearance aids me in every situation in life. 2. When it comes to memory... 3Dpx4Jk.jpg (JPEG Image, 500 × 647 pixels) What's Your Animal Personality Type. The World According to Foursquare in Beautiful Time-Lapse Maps. Foursquare has gathered a year’s worth of check-in data from all over the world and made it into these cool time-lapse maps of the activity in major cities. To me, they look a little like a swarm of fluorescent bees descending on a city, feasting on it and then fading away. But they are definitely a neat example of what can be done with volunteered information collected from mobile apps.
It’s also interesting that Foursquare has enough users in places like Tokyo and Istanbul to generate these maps. I’ve never used Foursquare. What am I missing other than helping to make maps like these? EcLq2HA.jpg (JPEG Image, 480 × 600 pixels) Amazing Image of Haiyan From SUOMI. The resolution is 375 meters on this image. Ctsy. Dan Lindsey at CIRA in Colorado. There was apparently a big jump in lightning around the eye at landfall. More on that here. GOES R will have on-board lightning detection when it launches in a couple of years. A nice loop of the eye from the Korean Weather Satellite is below: Tree fossil with opal growth rings.
BYcGKOGCAAAWZRu.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 450 pixels) lQeSwrt.jpg (JPEG Image, 964 × 732 pixels) These Are Some of the Most Amazing Views of Earth You'll Ever See. Itaipu Dam, Brazil-Paraguay Border: The reservoir of the Itaipu Dam, some of which can be seen here, extends over more than 520 square miles (1,350 sq km) along the border of Paraguay and Brazil. Its immediate surroundings are protected, but the rest of the area is devoted to agriculture. Sirpatrickstewartasalobsterinatub.jpg (JPEG Image, 500 × 667 pixels) Not this shit again, Jesus. _mvifqb2IcQ1s2wlrxo1_500.gif (GIF Image, 500 × 280 pixels) Baby Duck Slide. BdoSxv6. 5UGVSYN.gif (GIF Image, 507 × 355 pixels) The Tax Free Tour. Future me. Photo Album. America’s Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude. For a country that features the word United so prominently in its name, the U.S. is a pretty fractious place. We splinter along fault lines of income, education, religion, race, hyphenated origin, age and politics.
Then too there's temperament. We're coarse or courtly, traditionalist or rebel, amped up or laid-back. And it's no secret that a lot of that seems to be determined by — or at least associated with — where we live. Now a multinational team of researchers led by psychologist and American expat Jason Rentfrow of the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has sought to draw the regional lines more clearly, literally mapping the American mood, with state-by-state ratings of personality and temperament. 1 = Strongly Disagree 7 = Strongly Agree.
Black Teen Cuffed, Put in Cell After $350 Barneys Purchase; Second Shopper Says She Was Harassed. A 19-year-old college student from Queens says he was handcuffed and locked in a jail cell after buying a $350 designer belt at Barneys on Madison Avenue because he is "a young black man. " How Much Does a Public Defender Need to Know About a Client? - Andrew Cohen. As a recent New Jersey ruling shows, the justice system still doesn't grasp the importance of fair counsel. Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways. Man seen toppling boulder claims 'debilitating injuries' UN Women ad series reveals widespread sexism. Date : 21 October 2013 Ad series for UN Women by Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai. Why it's so hard to quantify false rape charges. How often do women falsely cry rape? Because of the 18-year-old Hofstra student who recanted after telling police that five men had tricked her into a bathroom and then gang raped her two weeks ago, that question has been flying around the Internet.
As Cathy Young notes in Newsday, the answers often fall into one of two camps. "Many feminists argue that the problem of false accusations is so minuscule that to discuss it extensively is a harmful distraction from the far more serious problem of rape. On the other side are men's-rights activists, claiming that false accusations are as much of a scourge as rape itself. " Gunnerkrigg Court - By Tom Siddell. 30 Super Adorable Behind The Scenes Photos from the 'Harry Potter' Series. 10/10 landing - GIF on Imgur. Some days just go that way! - GIF on Imgur. McCutcheon: The Case That Only Impacts 1,200 People? - Concurring Opinions. The Hidden Danger in the Supreme Court’s ‘McCutcheon’ Case. Chief Justice of the United States, John G.
Roberts Jr. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) If the Supreme Court moves to strike down certain campaign finance limits this term, as many expect the Roberts Court will do, could the conservative majority also pave the way for dismantling a whole host of anti-bribery and campaign finance laws across the country? This week, when the court convenes for its new term, justices will hear oral arguments for McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a case that challenges the aggregate contribution limits from individuals to traditional political committees.
Conservative legal strategists, including one of the groups that successfully propelled the original Citizens United decision, would like to use the McCutcheon case to go beyond the issue at hand. Campaign finance at the Supreme Court: Is McCutcheon v. FEC the next Citizens United? Reveal Your Character! Fun Literary Character Quiz. 3rd-Place-Windy-Corduroy.jpg (JPEG Image, 590 × 393 pixels) Corelam™ Corelam™ is a plywood product whose corrugated profile adds strength while multiplying the natural visual appeal of wood. Row-of-Specials-600x449.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 449 pixels) Face Research ⇒ Demos ⇒ Make An Average. The Postnational Monitor. Average Spaniard Male Average Spaniard Female Average French Male Average French Female. The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S. vTf8daD.png (PNG Image, 920 × 899 pixels) A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant. Ethiopian Welo Opal New gem found looks like the ocean in rock : pics.
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