The Zombies Devoured Your Minds.

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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:18 -0500

Chilean students 'occupy' school and run it by themselves

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:04 -0500

Chilean students 'occupy' school and run it by themselves:

anticapitalist:

Chilean students question the education system as commercial and elitist because it reproduces existing social inequities and makes them worse. But they are not just asking questions: They are practicing the kind of education they have spent years dreaming about and struggling to obtain.

“If workers can manage a factory, we can manage the school,” says Cristóbal, 17, as he flashes a smile. Cristóbal is a student at the Luis Galecio Corvera A-90 high school in the Santiago borough of San Miguel. The school is among the 200 in the city that students have occupied. But on September 26, they decided to follow the example of the workers of Cerámicas Zanón, the Argentine factory workers took over and began running 10 years ago.

“Things were getting complicated because the occupation was weakening,” Cristóbal says. “It was clear to us that it wasn’t enough to just criticize our education. We had to do something more, but we didn’t know where to start until we heard that the Zanón workers were giving a talk at the University of Chile. We went to listen to them and when we came back we started running the school ourselves.”

After the takeover, a majority of students—with the enthusiastic support of many parents—returned to school. Some of the teachers joined them. “When I saw that my children were getting up and going to school without having to wake them up, that they were excited about going, I understood that they were doing something important, something that adds up to a different kind of education,” says a mother at the basketball court, where the November sun shines brightly.

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Holy shit. This is fucking awesome.

reblogging myself again because I can’t get over how awesome this is.

magnetsandmiracles: Mirrors-Between the Buried and Me beauty in...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:03:05 -0500

magnetsandmiracles:

Mirrors-Between the Buried and Me

beauty in music

theartofanimation: Poly Bernatene

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:05 -0500

theartofanimation:

Poly Bernatene

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:02:05 -0500

“I have never seen someone try so hard for attention while...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:02:05 -0500

“I have never seen someone try so hard for attention while looking so atrocious at the same time.”

-Anna Wintour on Nicki Minaj

Giganotosaurus carolinii (by pablodf)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:00:05 -0500

Giganotosaurus carolinii (by pablodf)

953 dead people voted in the South Carolina GOP primary

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:10:31 -0500

953 dead people voted in the South Carolina GOP primary:

inothernews:

tehblackbirdisincognito:

How not at all surprising.

This is the kind of shit that they’re going to use to justify voter ID laws.

Deadmocracy?

scinerds: Babies with Three Parents Possible within Three...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:00:05 -0500

scinerds:

Babies with Three Parents Possible within Three Years

Researchers have secured £6m in funding to develop the groundbreaking treatment which could prevent genetic conditions affecting the heart, muscle or brain being passed on to children and future generations.

But the method is controversial because it involves transferring the parents’ DNA into a donor egg, meaning the resulting child would inherit a tiny fraction of their genetic coding from a third party.

While regulations currently forbid scientists from implanting such eggs into patients, the Wellcome Trust and Newcastle University has announced a £5.8m package for further lab-based research aimed at assessing the safety of the technique.

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djkaseynova: Because corny jokes give me life.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:20:18 -0500

djkaseynova:

Because corny jokes give me life.

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:18:17 -0500

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound..."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:00:05 -0500

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (via bookmania)

cwnl: Lenticular Cloud Over New Zealand Image Credit: Chris...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:01:05 -0500

cwnl:

Lenticular Cloud Over New Zealand

Image Credit: Chris Picking

What’s happening above those mountains?

Several clouds are stacked up into one striking lenticular cloud. Normally, air moves much more horizontally than it does vertically. Sometimes, however, such as when wind comes off of a mountain or a hill, relatively strong vertical oscillations take place as the air stabilizes.

The dry air at the top of an oscillation may be quite stratified in moisture content, and hence forms clouds at each layer where the air saturates with moisture. The result can be a lenticular cloud with a strongly layered appearance. The above picture was taken in 2002 looking southwest over the Tararua Range mountains from North Island, New Zealand.