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White Mane (Albert Lamorisse, 1953)
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Awesome. (via Put This On)
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Now on Universe: new challenge for feminist science buffs! In short, the astronomer who invented a very important method for classifying stars by temperature was a woman named Annie Jump Cannon, who was paid like 25 cents a day and catalogued thousands of stars at the Harvard observatory in the late 1800s. Now, the mnemonic universally used to remember the acronym she invented is “Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me!” Lame. Let’s make a better one.
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(via yacht)
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Tonight’s dinner: vegan red beans and rice, grilled watermelon, cold beer.
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Charles Lloyd’s Forest Flower (featuring Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette!) is the perfect hippie jazz summer jam.
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Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything – or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person’s mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well. So maybe as a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities therein for ruining a good story.
Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
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