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Women in the media: the most stubborn bastion of misogyny.
How important is it that you watch this Midnight Show PSA? Let us put it this way: millions of lives depend on it.
I actually squealed out loud at several points. This guy has incredible movement control.
Even more terrifying - see how quickly the fire is spreading.
Video shot September 5, 2011 on the north edge of Bastrop State Park. All but about 100 acres of the 6,000-acre park have been blackened by fire. Firefighters have been battling blazes for 3 days. At this point, historic CCC buildings are still intact. For more information, see http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/
Footage of the Bastrop fires in Central TX.
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: As seen at tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the first (and only) official trailer for The President’s Speech — A King’s Speech spoof starring a teleprompter-less Obama, his buff-armed wife Michelle, and perennial Amtrak Passenger of the Year Joe Biden as the Big F*cking Deal.
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PSA of the Day: Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore phoned up a bunch of their celeb friends and convinced them to participate in a series of anti-sex-trafficking PSAs that, according to Kutcher, purposely sport the “offbeat feel of Funny or Die.”
Because, as everyone knows, an anti-sex-trafficking PSA can’t possibly be taken seriously unless it has the offbeat feel of Funny or Die.
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I…honestly don’t know what to make of this.
(Source: thedailywhat)
A Day Without Dignity: the counter-campaign to Tom’s Shoes A Day Without Shoes by Good Intentions Are Not Enough
This is amazing!!
BBC UK has a story on this, but its headline misses the main point here. People have made 3D images of cells for many years now. The thing that really is a breakthrough here is that the cells are ALIVE, and the resolution is very good.
What you’re seeing in this video is a live, moving, HeLa cell, with all of its cell-surface projections.
Images and more videos are available on the Nature Methods site for the paper.
Via Ben Templesmith on Twitter: footage by Russian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko from Chernobyl, taken days after the 1986 disaster. Shevchenko died shortly thereafter as a result of the massive radiation poisoning he incurred while filming on the site, wearing nothing for protection but a surgical mask.
I’d make a “in Soviet Russia” joke, but even my sense of gallows humour can’t quite get there. I grew up on military bases in the 1980s and I’m old enough to remember being completely, totally convinced that we were going to all blow ourselves into nuclear winter any day now. Watching this film brings back the memories of that conviction, and just how spooked we all were when the Chernobyl incident happened.
Man, 1986 was one hell of a year, wasn’t it?
Because you haven’t had your daily dose of weird today.
India’s free hot lunches.
Man, they look so much better than the lunches we had when I was growing up…
Damn Nature U Breathtaking of the Day: Jesse Rosten says: “I have a deep affection for the Redwood forests of Northern California. This is my best attempt to capture the reverence I feel when in the presence of these giants.”
Growing is Forever. Words by Kallie Markle. Music: “Window” - The Album Leaf.
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(Source: thedailywhat)
