February 2012
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a first
today is the first day i have felt excited to fall in love again. scared to death of it (pun intended).
grateful…i am for the change of heart…or opening of it i should say.
thanks
The New Inquiry: Boor and Peace: The Russian... →
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By Christine Baumgarthuber
Snugs nooks outfitted with wall-length mirrors and chairs upholstered in red velvet shelter men and women, who chat as they sip from demitasses. A waitress in a white apron wipes her knife before slicing a cake into squares. Patrons pass in and out, quickly…
January 2012
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influence
last night before i went to bed i glanced at the photo next to my bed and said to myself “it is amazing how significant a person can be in your life”.
my first thought was “i wonder if i will ever get to have that experience again”
my second thought was “i hope to god i get to have that experience again”
that is what i consider growth.
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“nyc is finally cold. the earth is still moving. love seems distant and life...”
– cc to sugarpie
December 2011
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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– -Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)
September 2011
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“Science denial, when projected from the level of the state, can cost millions,...”
– Columbia University Press » Blog Archive » James Powell: Science Denialism Is Not Free, Part II
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“Global climate-protection spending totaled a record $567 billion last year, a 7...”
– The Stream, September 14: Global Climate Spending Grows
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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou (via thatkindofwoman)
August 2011
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“Researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute have established the first...”
– via Circle of Blue WaterNews
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The science of predicting a hurricane's path →
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25 Quotables from the 99% Conference :: Articles... →
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.” —Fred Wilson (via Nassim N Taleb) #99conf
“We’re not meant to operate like computers. Human beings are designed to pulse between spending/renewing energy.” —Tony Schwartz
“Reduce everything you want to do, to an action you can do right now.”—Jason Randal #99conf
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“She had scratched through her skull during the night—and all the way into her...”
– The Itch by Atal Gawande: The New Yorker
“2008 New Yorker article about a woman who had a chronic itch on her head and over time through her skull in till she reached her brain” via selectism
June 2011
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the difference
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.” — William Hazlitt
May 2011
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Pinterest 13
the pinterest baker’s dozen for this week See the full gallery on Posterous kadyn John Cusack, Vanity Fair justenoughsalt grunge justenoughsalt what a terrible mistake justenoughsalt the silver penguin justenoughsalt lariat bbq scottsmallwood john besh’s gumbo recipe danielsmyth diy bookshelf grammarous circumstance angieohman midwest states in cast iron ...
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the top 10 list of "special issues" magazines...
the list of “special issues” magazines recycle the food issue the travel issue the fashion issue the sex issue the best of issue the music issue the beauty issue the health issue the holiday issue the summer issue if a magazine only publishes once a month that leaves a mere 2 months for not-so-special-issues.
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Self Important | Futility Closet
English is the only major language to capitalize its first-person singular pronoun. “How monumentally imposing is that upper case ‘I’!” wrote Henry Van Dyke in 1920. “If a writer is egoistic the capitals stretch across his page like a colonnade. When he writes ‘we,’ he descends to the lower case. “But this orthographic solipsism, mark you, is shared by Americans, Canadians, Australians, New...
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William Egginton on the Rapture
Looking forward to May 22, 2011, as a day to laugh in the face of apocalypse-nowers makes about as much sense as getting excited about showing birthers another copy of Obama’s birth certificate. via cupblog.org
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reasons I support #slutwalkla
the reasons I support SlutWalk LA and hopefully soon SlutWalk NYC because… a person’s appearance is not the cause of sexual assault it is not the victim’s fault it is not ALL men it is not ALL women no one should expect violence and no asks for it “my daughter who deserves to grow up knowing her body is sacred no matter who or how or how many she loves.” ...
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Drinking Up The Water: "Too Many NGOs in a Crisis"
“…after every disaster there is a renewed attempt to sort out the chaos of the burgeoning international NGO sector. DIY aid is a huge trend created by the massive media engagement in a disaster; everyone watches the pictures on television and the global good will pours out – incoherent, passionate and convinced it can make a difference.” via How can we curb the proliferation...
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a baker’s dozen from pinterest this week See the full gallery on Posterous justenoughsalt Harper’s Bazaar, 1957. em somera The First Grader justenoughsalt Black Cat Print Dress jackie gay retro stove justenoughsalt Hermès Custom Vans Slip-Ons: stylist Robert Verdi nick goodey Ichijo Narumi, Female Nude Seated in Water, 1906 justenoughsalt damon winter justenoughsalt petals...
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Early Innovation at GOOD Magazine
“When you donate money to Max Schorr’s charity network, you end up with more than a stack of free-return-address labels. Give $20 to one of a dozen organizations at goodmagazine.com and you’ll receive a subscription to Schorr’s new bimonthly GOOD magazine.” -via Blueprint Magazine, Fall 2006 p.26 I wonder how this early innovation at GOOD turned out. Schorr was...
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Peace & Admiration
“People who have made peace with themselves are the people I most admire in the world.” - Harper Lee, in Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields via Blueprint Magazine, Summer 2006 p.36
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echo the chemical (battle) cry
A Chemical (Battle) Cry by Deborah Blum via speakeasyscience With the right set of enforced laws the word “chemical” does not need to be synonymous with the word “toxic”. what you need to know: “noted that an estimated 50,000 chemical compounds are used by American industries and their customers and that about 300 have gone through rigorous safety...
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to become the next thing you'll be...
“New York…is where you come to become the next thing you’ll be.” -Bill Buford, in Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany via Blueprint Magazine, Summer 2006 p.34
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you do not have to be good
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the...
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attempting to save a life and suspension of...
woke up to the sound of ridiculously-loud-music blasting three floors below. this is nyc, but it is also sunday at 745 so about 30 seconds after the music began, a chorus of pissed off n.yorkers began spewing expletives out of windows. by 815 we had come to the realization that it was a dj hired to hype up the folks completing the nyc AIDS walk. by 915 i was out the door for a run in riverside...
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Missed Opportunities & US Chemical Policy
For many years, the public health and environmental communities have been calling for reform of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which governs the use of chemicals in US commerce. Instead of requiring companies to demonstrate the safety of chemicals they intend to use or produce, TSCA puts the burden on EPA to request this data and justify their request based on anticipated...
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Protagonist : James Shelley
The protagonist we love is the one who realizes a need outside of themselves and puts their own security in jeopardy to meet that need for another. via jamesshelley.net
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things to look forward to
See the full gallery on Posterous sprinkles cupcakes opens TODAY may 13th in nyc. must recommend their amazing salty carmel cupcakes and not to be missed strawberry cupcakes. {780 lex @ 60th} “Sprinkles Salty Caramel cupcakes are an irresistible salty-sweet flavor combination using fleur de sel crystals hand harvested from the pristine seas off Brittany, France. These fleur de sel...
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Geo-Targeted Emergency Alerts to Cell Phones to Go...
By the end of 2011, emergency alerts will be pushed out to many mobile phones in New York City as part of a new service called the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN). The federal government has been working on making emergency alerts geographically targeted and available on mobile phones, and federal and city officials announced on Tuesday, May 10, that the service would be available in...
Lies, damned lies and politics
One of the speakers at Global Water Intelligence’s conference in Berlin was Jennifer Hosterman, mayor of Pleasanton, California, and Chair of the US Mayor’s Water Council. In her talk, Hosterman said [paraphrasing] “water problems have big impacts… one California town has 40% unemployment; water shortages have led to thousands of job losses.” Knowing that...
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2011 Tennessee Women’s Health Report Card...
African American women experience tremendous disparities in their infant mortality rate, with 16 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 6 for white women and 6.6 for Hispanic women. About a third of us have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, are obese, and do not “engage in leisure time activity,” or exercise. 16.9% of us live below the poverty line, with disparities here as...
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forceful and self-confident
“It’s tempting to imagine that [you] could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying to stay under that threshold means giving those people veto power over your actions. To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by definition, to...
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Pilot Handwriting beta
via pilothandwriting.com pilot handwriting beta project
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Economic Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek...
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek via youtube.com “one data point and you are jumping for joy”. hilarious and true. team hayek for this round.
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water demand of CSPs (concentrating solar power...
Water Consumption Impacts of Renewable Energy Technologies: The Case of Concentrating Solar Power by Jordan Macknick, Robin Newmark, and Craig Turchi Abstract Renewable technologies are likely to play a larger role in the future U.S. electricity generation mix. In particular, concentrating solar power (CSP) systems could provide much of this future generation, and would be deployed...
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real heroism
stephen fry: what i wish i’d known when is was 18 “the real heroism of people who quietly get on with their lives and think of others” -s.fry via frankchimero
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The Food Desert Locator
How is a food desert defined? The HFFI working group defines a food desert as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store: To qualify as a “low-income community,” a census tract must have either: 1) a poverty rate of 20 percent or higher, OR 2) a median family income at or below 80 percent of the...
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morning first
via payload.cargocollective.com monday morning first
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moonriver lullaby
@thehoneytrees doing a cover of “Moon River” via thatkindofwoman http://www.youtube.com/embed/ubeFZwCR2lM ((post: May 09, 2011 at 9:00 PM))
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moonriver lullabye
@thehoneytrees doing a cover of “Moon River” via thatkindofwoman ((May 09, 2011 at 9:00 PM))
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your best is good enough
in order to be healthy on the inside, you need to accept that “your best is good enough.” We believe that whether you’re 17 or 47, you can afford to make mistakes and you can afford to take your time. The “screw-ups” you make and the “do-overs” you give yourself permission to take won’t ruin your life – they’ll be the seeds for your future success. via healthyisthenewskinny.com well said...
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using one sea to fix another: "Bidders start path...
The huge plan to desalinate water from the Red Sea and use the brine to top up the shrinking Dead Sea will be one of the biggest technical challenges of the coming years. Financial sustainability is more important to bidders.via globalwaterintel.com “The first phase of the project is expected to include 575,000m3/d of SWRO desal capacity built at the southern port of Aqaba. The brine...
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green expectations for the 2012 london olympics
2012 London Olympics The 2012 Olympic Games organizers have published the first environment report for the Games next year. The document outlines a plan to host the greenest Olympics ever, yet not all of the green proposals will be delivered, the BBC reports. In the meantime, London faces a hefty fine by the International Olympic Committee if it continues to break air pollution laws by the...