Adventurings

slaughterhouse90210:

“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom 

(Source: jockohomo, via newsweek)

keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

womenoccupy:

Dorli Rainey 84, after being pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle protest: Photo by Joshua Trujillo, SeattlePI.com

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I have only posted about OWS one other time. I just can’t let this go by. 

This is what can happen to you and your body if you just show up, place your body somewhere that freaks out the establishment, and actively protest the problems inherent and rampant in the system. This type of over-reaction by the authorities is something that people of color and minorities face ALL THE TIME simply for being, let’s remember. But seriously, Holy Fuck.

We owe it to this woman to look in her eyes, to see her face, to SEE her. We owe it to her to hold her gaze, to not move our eyes away because it is hard to look. We need to keep looking at her specifically BECAUSE it is hard to look. 

(via newsweek)

theatlantic:

One Downside to Bicycle Commuting: Biker’s Lung

If you bike to work, you’ve probably got pretty nice thighs. Your lungs, though, may not be in such great shape.

New research has found that bicycle commuters inhale more than twice the amount of black carbon particles as pedestrians making a comparable trip. That healthy bike ride to and from work might be getting you out of a car, but it’s not getting you out of the way of the automobile emissions.

The study, led by Professor Jonathan Grigg from Barts and the London School of Medicine, looked at bicycle and pedestrian commuters in London to determine whether different modes of travel exposed commuters to higher levels of black carbon. By comparing levels of carbon in the lungs of five healthy bicycle commuters to the levels of five healthy pedestrian commuters, the researchers found a large disparity. The bicycle commuters had 2.3 times more black carbon in their lungs. They claim that the probability of this happening by chance is less than one percent.

Read more at The Atlantic Cities

newsweek:

discoverynews:

Suicide by Roller Coaster

This is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being.

The 3-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb — nearly a third of a mile long — that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops. The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the 10g force from the spinning loops at 223 mph in that single minute is lethal.

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This is nuts. The creator, Designer/Artist Julijonas Urbonas, tells Discovery he doesn’t see his suicide machine as being about death, but as “an intellectual and artful departure from the world.”

newsweek:

thedailyfeed:

David Beckham warily eyed another beachgoer while body boarding in Malibu. Might we suggest these gentlemen switch suits? 

theatlantic:

Animals in the News

Two-year-old chimpanzee “Do Do” feeds milk to “Aorn”, a 60-day-old tiger cub, at Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Samut Prakan province on the outskirts of Bangkok, on July 30, 2011. The crocodile farm, used as a tourist attraction, houses some 80,000 crocodiles and is the largest in Thailand.

This is exactly what it looks like. See more great shots at In Focus

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

River Phoenix, K.D. Lang and Liza Minnelli.

whoa. 

I forgot to make a post at the beginning of February when Jonny and I ran away to Lanzarote (in the Canary Islands) to write, read, and study Spanish for a few months.  We don’t have internet access in our house—which I am enjoying for many reasons, but mostly for my increased level of productivity—and so I don’t have time to tumble regularly right now. 

I will back at the beginning of June when we move stateside.  

Two of my nephews wrestling. I know I just said Donal was the cutest child of all time, but sometimes I say the same thing about Taylor (on the left).