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nevver:

7 Billion World

motherjones:

Charts: How Foreign Firms Flood America With Guns—and Get Rich Doing It.

(via upworthy)

luxocula:

Yetzenia - Latest addition to Absent Friends! Made some real progress this week. Huzzah.

rebeccamock:

A Year In Trees

A made this animated/print piece to accompany the beautiful op-ed story “A Year in Trees” for the NY Times. I was really excited to try animating something like this. Thanks AD’s Erich Nagler and Aviva Michaelov !

“ Los Angeles public schools have just gone meatless on Mondays. But unlike the Los Angeles City Council’s resolution in November that simply urges people to observe a Monday without meat, the school system really has issued an edict. It stopped serving meat on Mondays last month. Of course, students could pack turkey sandwiches from home. But the school cafeterias won’t be selling them, and that’s a good thing.

— If it’s Monday, the L.A. Unified school cafeteria is meatless

“ Boris Yakubchik is a member of Giving What We Can and gives 50% of his income to the most cost-effective charity he can find. He graduated from Rutgers (BA in Mathematics, MA in Education), audited dozens of classes in philosophy, read hundreds

— I’m a speaker at TEDxRutgers 2013! Yay me, Boris Yakubchik :3

npr:

kqedscience:

One Man Thinks He Never Has To Eat Again
“You know what’s an irreversible waste of time, money and effort? Eating food you take pleasure in eating. I mean, wouldn’t you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a pre-made sandwich or enjoying a huge hungover fry-up ever again? Rob Rhinehart – a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man – thinks so.”
Read more about Rob’s diet of Soylent shakes from VICE.

Food for thought. — tanya b.

npr:

kqedscience:

One Man Thinks He Never Has To Eat Again

“You know what’s an irreversible waste of time, money and effort? Eating food you take pleasure in eating. I mean, wouldn’t you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a pre-made sandwich or enjoying a huge hungover fry-up ever again? Rob Rhinehart – a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man – thinks so.”

Read more about Rob’s diet of Soylent shakes from VICE.

Food for thought. — tanya b.

(Source: crescentmoon06, via lepetitchatblanc)

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andrewfm:

There are few things that irritate me more than when people say “well, that’s a good idea, but it’s just not realistic” with regards to political change.

Here’s why: on most plausible norms of assertion, when you make a statement like that, you do so to convince the audience of its truth, or…

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