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PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK day 4 | favorite film → PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

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How to World Cup, as told by baby elephants.

soft marble sculptures appreciation post. 

you know how mathematicians have the journal of recreational mathematics, right? where they publish stuff like, ‘oh i found this cool property of this one seemingly boring number’, or, ‘this is literally nonsense but it sounds ~scientific~’ and it’s all great fun to read?

well

behold, the journal of recreational linguistics

with such delightful papers as ‘tennis puns’, ‘animals in different languages’, and ‘gifts from a homonymous benefactor’

excuse me while i go read all 50 volumes in one sitting

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DYSAPHIA

[noun]

impairment in the sense of touch.

Etymology: Greek dys-, a combining form meaning “ill”, “bad”, + haphē, “touch”.

[Shannon Bonatakis]

jacobyverger ooooh!

Sir David Attenborough has contributed to natural history programming for 60 years. Sir David is presenting “Fabulous Frogs” on Nature on PBS on June 25. Let’s jump for joy! Here’s a clip: http://youtu.be/l3uO2lO9JDk 

Image is tweet from @ maksymeristavi which reads

my family was just forced to vote at gunpoint in russian cosplay of a “referendum” in southern ukraine:

- they come to your house

- you have to openly tick the box for being annexed by russia (or for staying with ukraine if you feel suicidal)

- all while armed gunmen watch you