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luckieststudent: The Student Life Network is giving away the...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:47:19 -0400

The Student Life Network is giving away the best prize pack in Canadian student history. It starts with $20k for school and five Dell XPS Ultrabooks to share with friends.

Register to win at: http://luckie.st/Pokwls Canadian students 13+ only.

wordslessspoken: “We’re all just walking each other home.” -...

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:03:55 -0400

wordslessspoken:

“We’re all just walking each other home.” - Ram Dass

penetrable: aquara: my favorite ocean pic on tumblr, which is...

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:02:14 -0400

penetrable:

aquara:

my favorite ocean pic on tumblr, which is saying a lot because i like all ocean pics lo

Ants in Germany repeatedly ring woman's doorbell

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:01:49 -0400

Ants in Germany repeatedly ring woman's doorbell:

rorschachx:

Ringing a doorbell in the middle of night might not seem an impressive achievement when you have two stomachs, can clone yourself and your biggest colony stretches across 3,700 miles.

But a nest of ants terrified a 75-year-old woman in the German town of Offenburg who called the police at 3am after her doorbell repeatedly rang. Officers discovered the culprit was a nest of ants who had built a home of such size it pressed elements together to work the switch.

The species of ant was not revealed (there are 12,000 vastly different ant species known to science and perhaps 90,000 still to be discovered) but one suspect is the pharaoh ant, named according to one legend because Linnaeus found it in a mummy.

Read full article on the Guardian

rorschachx: Giraffes in Arusha National Park | image source

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:07:53 -0400

rorschachx:

Giraffes in Arusha National Park | image source

"When entering samadhi, or absorption in God-consciousness, one feels like a fish released from a..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:07:37 -0400

“When entering samadhi, or absorption in God-consciousness, one feels like a fish released from a small jar into the vast, powerful current of Mother Ganga. One swims everywhere with perfect freedom and spontaneity. There are no partitions, no boundaries.”

- Ramakrishna (via fuckyeahyoga)

"There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:27:52 -0400

“There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.”

- Elizabeth A. Behnke (via unconditionedconsciousness)

physicsphysics: thatscienceguy: The highest temperature...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:27:11 -0400

physicsphysics:

thatscienceguy:

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

That is almost 1 million times the surface of the sun!!

wordslessspoken: Amazing to me how threatened people can be by things they know nothing about.

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:27:01 -0400

wordslessspoken:

Amazing to me how threatened people can be by things they know nothing about.

"A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:26:50 -0400

“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”

- Ram Dass (via ashramof1)

rorschachx: Magicicada septendecim cicadas are pictured in West...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:26:33 -0400

rorschachx:

Magicicada septendecim cicadas are pictured in West Virginia. Any day now, billions of cicadas will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the US east coast. They will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600 to one | image by Chris Simon

rorschachx: This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:24:24 -0400

rorschachx:

This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. This orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold interstellar dust, at wavelengths too long for human eyes to see. | image source: ESO

"Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:28 -0400

“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.”

- Paul Dirac (via rorschachx)

ecocides: climateadaptation: Chinese ship runs into protected...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:54:19 -0400

ecocides:

climateadaptation:

Chinese ship runs into protected UNESCO reef in Philippines — while transporting 11 tons of illegal Pangolin meat

A Chinese vessel that ran into a protected coral reef in the southwestern Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 22,000 pounds of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater.

The steel-hulled vessel hit an atoll on April 8 at the Tubbataha National Marine Park, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site on Palawan island.

Coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Armand Balilo said Monday that 400 boxes, each containing 25 to 30 kilograms of frozen pangolins, were discovered during a second inspection of the boat Saturday.

The World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines said the Chinese vessel F/N Min Long Yu could have been carrying up to 2,000 of the toothless, insect-eating animals rolled up in the boxes, with their scales already removed.

The boat’s 12 Chinese crewmen are being detained on charges of poaching and attempted bribery, said Adelina Villena, the marine park’s lawyer. She said more charges are being prepared against them, including damaging the corals and violating the country’s wildlife law for being found in possession of the pangolin meat.

The poachers posed as fisherman and now face up to 20 years in prison. Via NBC

Here’s a NatGeo video of the endangered pangolin.

~~Small victory.~~

ecocides: Lynx in the rain - Cabarceno Wildlife Park, Northern...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:04:36 -0500

ecocides:

Lynx in the rain - Cabarceno Wildlife Park, Northern Spain | image by Marina Cano

lol haaii pktrickz

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:03:04 -0500

guess who this is ;)

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:02:59 -0500

youll never get my tumblr url boy. ill just continue to spam you on anon

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:02:54 -0500

OOOOHHH I FORGOT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:02:49 -0500

landscapelifescape: morning rays…. by VaggelisFragiadakis

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:01:29 -0500

landscapelifescape:

morning rays…. by VaggelisFragiadakis