December 2011
Soup: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with…
5 Underreported Stories of 2011
joshsternberg:
As we close the books on 2011, here, in totality, are five underreported stories (as put together by me) for Current.com:
More troops commit suicide than die in combat
Big business behind solar power
Food prices trigger revolution
U.S. military infiltrates social media
Number of homeless children highest in American history
(LINK) Sonoluminescence : a bubble trapped in... →
lucifelle:
Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound. In 1989 a major experimental advance was introduced by Felipe Gaitan and Lawrence Crum, who produced stable single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL). In SBSL, a single bubble trapped in an acoustic standing wave, emits a pulse of light with each compression of the bubble...
How a Holiday Party Went Wrong →
tetw:
by George Saunders
At twenty-six, at the embarrassing end of a series of attempts at channelling Kerouac, I was beyond broke, back in my home town, living in my aunt and uncle’s basement…
Gentlemonster's Quarterly: North Carolina!! AN... →
vikkiage:
lucypaw:
victorianaaa:
blackamazon:
She needs “a bedroom for me and my stuff and my cat, some pain meds, and a line on a job.” She’s getting kicked out of her place by the first of the month, but she’s a real established organizer, a genius trans woman of…
“Medieval spinners often used a distaff, (a stick with a fork or ornate comb on...”
– Lady Siobhan nic Dhuinnshleibhe - http://goo.gl/C3SIi (via shivian)
Lifehacker recommendation of the week: DrugCite →
DrugCite Tells You the Side Effects of Nearly Any Medicine and Provides Helpful, Relevant Statistics
Why do we need Wikileaks?
kforkallisti:
Because of atrocities such as this being covered up by the US government and other governments across the globe.
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
– Woodrow Wilson (via wordpainting)
You were born with a snake in both of your fists...
“One can say many things about the history of the world except that it is...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via sovietpropaganda)
The Elkdog Men: To the Immaculate Virgin, on a... →
elkdogmen:
Lady, the night is falling and the dark Steals all the blood from the scarred west. The stars come out and freeze my heart With drops of untouchable music, frail as ice And bitter as the new year’s cross.
Where in the world has any voice Prayed to you, Lady, for the peace that’s in your…
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus (via wordpainting)
(love the phrase “invincible summer”!)