Parts of a World

“Realize that every neuron in your brain, every human cell in your body (leaving aside all the symbionts), is a direct descendent of eukaryotic cells that lived and fended for themselves for about a billion years as free-swimming, free-living little agents.”

— THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND | Edge.org

9:17 pm | January 11 2013

(via Indoor Clouds | Best Inventions of the Year 2012 | TIME.com)

8:03 pm | January 7 2013

Irony is wonderful, terrific, fantastic! http://www.theawl.com/2012/12/irony-is-wonderful-terrific-fantastic

9:32 am | January 4 2013

Old Arab fort. Stone Town, Zanzibar

11:33 am | December 22 2012

Looks like Sleeping Beauty’s castle, huh? That’s because Disney based his castle on King Ludwig’s, who based his castle on neo-Romantic German kitsch, which was based on cultural memory of medieval castles that never existed.
(via Sometimes Liz Writes: March 2010)

Looks like Sleeping Beauty’s castle, huh? That’s because Disney based his castle on King Ludwig’s, who based his castle on neo-Romantic German kitsch, which was based on cultural memory of medieval castles that never existed.

(via Sometimes Liz Writes: March 2010)

12:06 pm | November 29 2012

French Fries Can Kill You

12:53 pm | August 24 2011

(via Serious Grape: Pinotage, the Wine for Coffee Lovers | Serious Eats: Drinks)

12:06 am | May 21 2011

(via imgur: the simple image sharer)

8:06 pm | May 7 2011

Triforce EndGrain Cutting Board by 1337motif on Etsy

9:05 pm | February 3 2011

“The shadow planets actually existed without actually existing. They were heavenly bodies without bodies…”

— Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown

8:08 pm | January 14 2011 | 1 note