nycedc:

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fastcompany:

In a dark corner of the Internet, some people have a low-level obsession with the faces that are formed by naturally occurring phenomena in nature or indoors. We salute those people.

eataku:

As a New Yorker, I’m skeptical of bagels with lox and cream cheese in any city outside my own. However, if there was someone I would trust to do it properly, it would be Donald Link down at Cochon in New Orleans. Here’s his take, served yesterday… “House made bagel, creole cream cheese, cured gulf snapper, capers, onion + avocado”

Looks and sounds fantastic, eh?!

Pin this for my travels. I love me some good ol’ bagel and cream cheese.

Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful? I swear that her crooning to that line is speaking to my soul. Not even sure why cause that’s not even one of the questions on my mind…I wish. It’s just one of those songs that are simply soulful. A song about the fairy tale that we all chase.

The Great Gatsby version (the one in the trailers) is brilliant as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBJY3Extw1I&feature=endscreen&NR=1

p.s. I’m the only one who didn’t love the Great Gatsby (I know it’s a good piece of lit, but that doesn’t mean you have to love it).

Sometimes, you need to let people fester in their self-aggrandizing behaviors and beliefs. Or else, you might become them.

Pearl: You aren’t here to better others; you’re here to better yourself.

A tad bit of my amateur photography at the Miami Metro Zoo back 5 years ago. She was the cutest baby in the whole world.

al final el amor que recibes equivale al amor que haces. #beatles #ultimaspalabras #lastsong #verdad #spreadlove

Pearl: The lyrics say it all.

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To say that I vehemently agree would be an understatement. His concerns about economics have been my maddening qualms with my econ courses in college. At one point, I attempted to take cognitive science courses alongside econ ones to further explore these same ideas like the dork that I am. People often treat the subject so simplistically that I can not see a depth to it. Then again, I believe that many fields of study have a long way to go. Might be why I love the idea of research, playing devil’s advocate, and people who strive for more knowledge. I recently was talking to a friend about how little I believe we know about recycling and waste management alone: Which processes are harmful? Which resultant chemicals do we not completely understand? And will we understand them? When will there be ways to deal with tires? What is this talk about too many cell phone parts to be properly disposed of? Is that really a fast-approaching calamity or is it easily resolved?

And I believe that eventually we will have our answers. Once people stop seeing research and open-mindedness like some of our ancestors saw the great scientists and philosophers like Galileo, Socrates, Hypatia, and Marquis de Condorcet back in their respective times.

Pearl: If you cannot question the norm then, you aren’t much of a thinker.

Pearl #2: if you think progress is problematic or chaos-inducing then, you are Dolores Umbridge and you like cats too much.

http://www.businessinsider.com/grant-stu dy-reveals-what-makes-us-happy-2013-4?buffer_share=c2f17

Pearl: Happiness is love

ex-genius:

oh my

this is gold. my kind of customer service.

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