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This is also what happens when I read a book/article full of statistics. Or see a conference talk about statistics. Or get into a conversation in class about statistics. Or when a dude on a date starts dropping statistics to justify his bullshit.
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Photo reblogged from Urbane Instincts
Recent photo of a little boy visiting the White House. He wanted to feel Obama’s hair because he wanted to know if the President’s hair felt just like his. Obama obliged. Priceless.
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Photo reblogged from Yo, Is This Racist?
felixincognito asked: sigh…
Goddamn it, someone please tell me this is fake.Oh my god. This is from UT. Oh my god.
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Photo reblogged from experiments in interdisciplines
this is literally the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
More jealous of Hilz than Louis CK
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Audio post reblogged from Innumerable Gibbons
She’s back!
Tour dates: http://www.fiona-apple.com/tour.html
All day every day.
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It might just be that after devoting so much of our energy to the unfulfilled promise of respectability, a politics of deviance, with a focus on the transformative potential found in deviant practice, might be a more viable strategy for radically improving the lives and possibilities of those most vulnerable in Black communities.Cathy Cohen, “Deviance As Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics” (via ourtropes)
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Link reblogged from ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LOLITUDE
It’s weird to me how “period jokes” is the most common way to complain about female comedy. I think I can count on one hand the number of period jokes I’ve heard women tell. I’d need about a million more hands to say the same thing about literally any male bodily function. Everyone is all “STOP…
A lot of really good points. Also, the only comic I ever heard do a period joke in Austin was a middle aged white dude, and it wasn’t funny. So let’s not blame women for the shitty period humor out there.
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Quote reblogged from experiments in interdisciplinesThe act of feeling frustrated is an essential part of the creative process. Before we can find the answer — before we can even know the question — we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is beyond our reach. We need to have wrestled with the problem and lost. Because it’s only after we stop searching that an answer may arrive.
Jonah Lehrer on the importance of frustration in the creative process, live-illustrated by Guggenheim Fellow Flash Rosenberg. (via explore-blog)
Particularly useful words as I finish up my MA…
(via ceandersen)
