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Saturday, December 28, 2013

historicaltimes: An uncropped version of the famous Tiananmen...

historicaltimes:

An uncropped version of the famous Tiananmen Square tank and protester photo. June 1989

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mannytoodope: We need more guys like this Don’t mess...

mannytoodope:

We need more guys like this

Don’t mess with Chest Rockwell.

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Friday, December 27, 2013

"If we didn’t shelve our memories appropriately, everything would be a jumble, and without..."

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If we didn’t shelve our memories appropriately, everything would be a jumble, and without consolidation, we would forget it all. Life would have no meaning, and more importantly (at least from an evolutionary standpoint) we would never learn anything—we’d be helplessly amorphous, easy prey.

Here’s the conundrum, though: the same experiences that are stamped as emotionally important can overwhelm your brain’s short term storage facilities. Dr. Rebecca Spencer, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Department of Psychology, likens it to a desk where “whatever is stressing you out is this big pile of papers, but there are also other memories piling up on you.” With more and more papers landing in front of you all day, you’ll never effectively get to them all. And emotionally rich experiences are all high priority messages, screaming to be dealt with right away. So what happens next?

“You can be driven to sleep simply by having a lot of emotional memories to process,” says Spencer. It takes sleep to provide the space needed to sift through the days’ experiences, and make permanent those that matter.

Studies show that sleep enhances your memory of experiences, and the effect is multiplied for experiences with the stamp of emotion.

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Why Some People Respond to Stress by Falling Asleep

Also see the science of how REM sleep helps us regulate our negative moods.

(via explore-blog)

Go to bed!!!

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"You think I’m an asshole now, you should have seen me when I was drunk."

“You think I’m an asshole now, you should have seen me when I was drunk.”

- John Mellencamp (via endlesssound)

My mom and dad can testify to the fact that yes, The Coug was a total fucking asshole.

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"Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of..."

“Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.”

- John A. Murray (via devilduck)

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The closest a human being can ever come to perfection is while preparing a resumé.

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Thursday, December 26, 2013

swiftingthrough: legendary WINNER!

swiftingthrough:

legendary

WINNER!

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jewcats: I’d like to dive headfirst into one of these where can...

jewcats:

I’d like to dive headfirst into one of these where can I find one

MY KEYS!!!

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retronewyork: Brooklyn Bridge 35 by stevensiegel260 on...

retronewyork:

Brooklyn Bridge 35 by stevensiegel260 on Flickr.

OSHA? What’s an OSHA?

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historicaltimes: An air-to-air front view of an SR-71 Blackbird...

historicaltimes:

An air-to-air front view of an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft being refuelled by another aircraft during refuelling operations, by Sgt. P.A. Tubridy, 1988

marquis_of_chaos:

I found this image on the internet with no provenance, the details come from the meta data. I have no idea if it is correct and have not yet found a OS to confirm or deny the title.

There’s very few places that form and function meet with complete and total success.

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