May 2013
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No seriously, I used to be able to post notes on other people’s posts. I know it’s been a week or two since I’ve used you Tumblr, but I swear I’m not crazy. I feel so lost and alone. Sob.
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February 2013
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January 2013
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December 2012
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Benjamin Kyle is a missing person, because he has amnesia and doesn’t know who he is and the government hasn’t been able to figure it out either. You may have already seen this 10 minute documentary about him — it’s been online for a bit and — but you probably haven’t seen this amazing pointilism portrait of Ben! OMG, let’s all go back to the drawing board,...
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A group of Estonian architects have built a trampoline walkway through a Russian forest.
Well this is unacceptable. Doesn’t he know he should be bouncing?
November 2012
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I love this. (Regardless of whether they’re sending iPads or Motorola Xoom tablets, of course)
Most of us were not raised to think kids can learn on their own. But even if you were raised to think kids can teach themselves, you will be shocked to hear about the kids in Ethiopia. MIT chose a remote, illiterate community to send some first-graders a box of iPads. Unopened. One person in the...
October 2012
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When you imagine yourself being older – if you allow yourself to imagine it at all – it’s with the sense that Future You is not really you, with your wants and needs and habits, but perhaps a different person entirely. In her book THE WILLPOWER INSTINCT, Kelly McGonigal puts it like this: “Brain-imaging studies show that we…use different regions of the brain to think about our present selves and...
September 2012
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August 2012
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June 2012
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May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Build Your Own Pair of Jeans? →
Why yes. Yes, I would enjoy that.
(and by Scott Morrison of Paper Denim & Cloth and Earnest Sewn? Another yes to that!)
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Dear Mindy Kaling,
I want you to know that I read your book swiftly, while eating my entire stockpile of Christmas candy, only pausing to dance alone in my room to “Semi Charmed Life” by Third Eye Blind several times in a row (which clearly counteracts the eating of said candies). I feel you support this, and I do too.
Fondest Regards,
A
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December 2011
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