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straight up broccoli

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its really cool that we discovered glass which is the material that doesnt have any chemical reactions with anything in the universe very useful for doing chemistry due to being able to put things in it to contain chemical reactions and never having it react with the things that are in it due to it being completely and entirely unreactive to every chemical

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i just saw the tag “canon complicit” instead of “canon compliant” and im laughing its like “canon is a criminal act that i unfortunately support with this fic”

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They don’t tell you this but life really is just about collecting silly trinkets and laughing so hard your belly hurts and writing bad poetry and seeing beauty in everything you encounter and basking in sunlight on cold winter days and forgiving yourself over and over and over again

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the man who owns and runs the thai restaurant in my town knows me by name. he is one of the kindest and most thoughtful men i know. i started ordering from his place back in january, which was when i got my fibromyalgia diagnosis. back then i was using a walker, had limited mobility in my entire body but especially my hands, and was very visibly in pain. i always ordered the same thing: yellow curry with no meat, potatoes and carrots only (i have texture and other dietary issues). he always made it a point to make sure i could get out the door and carry the food safely. he had his workers package the food so that it was easier for me to open. as i kept coming back and i told him a little bit about my health status, he would always encourage me to keep going. he told me about how the spices he used were good for inflammation and began to edit the recipe just for me so that spices that were even better for fighting inflammation were used. he’d give me extra portions and despite the fact that i would tip every time, i realized later that he never charged my card for them. as time went on and my condition began to get better, especially with the help of a physical therapist, he would make encouraging remarks and tell me how happy he was for me. the day i came in without my walker, he practically jumped for joy, and despite my insistence, he gave me my meal for free that day. i continue to make progress with my conditions and i continue to go to the thai place. this man who does not know me personally and who i hardly know anything about is one of my favorite people. it’s interactions with humans like these that make loving life easier. and his curry really does help my chronic condition. it’s comfort food taken to the next level.

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Mythic Context Is Everything

Sometimes a myth plays out a certain way because that’s the way certain aspects of our world seem to play out (The Eleusinian mysteries).

Sometimes a myth is a reflection of the societal norms of the culture that created it (sexual coercion of mortal women by gods).

Sometimes the author of a particular myth wrote it the way they did because they had a personal investment in writing it the way that they did (Ovid was known to exaggerate the brutality of Hellenic myths in his retellings).

Sometimes the myth doesn’t seem to line up with the cult practices of the culture in which the myth originates (Homer’s treatment of Zeus vs the Greek’s absolute adoration of Zeus).

Sometimes particular myths are taken as rote fact despite contradictory myths from lesser known authors (the birth of Aphrodite as extolled by Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, and Cicero).

Sometimes a myth just happens to be the one that survives the passage of time.

Sometimes a myth is used to teach a mortal lesson (literally every instance of a mortal being punished for their hubris).

Sometimes the translation of a myth reveals a quality not intended in the original work (the rape vs the abduction of Persephone).

Mythology is a product of humanity attempting to find its place in the universe. Taking every myth at face value, without considering allegorical symbolism, authorial intent, societal prejudice, or contemporary mythologies is a mistake many newbies make, and is certainly one that will bar most from coming to a wider understanding of the figures, lessons, and themes behind the myth.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Collection

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Working all week long (because I'm an artist).

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Hey kids, wanna learn what signs of botulism look like?

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Everyone should be heartbroken when it comes to what is going on in Israel and Gaza, Israel and Palestine, just Palestine, just Israel, honestly, I could care less what you call the precious stretch of land. The names are besides the point.

Everyone should be horrified at the death of all the children. I don't care what children you thought of first when I said as long as you also thought of other children second. The nationality and religion of the children are beyond the point as well.

Everyone should be disgusted and exhausted by all the death. I don't care what "side" you're on, I don't care who you feel closer to, I don't care what your ultimate dreams are, two states, one state, from the river to the sea, a greater Eretz Yisrael.

There is nothing to celebrate. If any of you are noticing a sense of righteous indignation, a sense of, "well of course this is what has to happen," a sense of relief that it already has - that is a warning sign. And if any of you are celebrating any of it, any of you looking forward to the mass death that will happen or justifying the mass death that already has, that is what puts you outside what is ethical in this discussion, not what side you are on, not what names you use for the land itself.

There is nothing to celebrate. There has been no good news. We should all be sick.

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in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay

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I love the library

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I feel like everyone should see this seal we saw in ireland

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