September 2011
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fuckyeah1990s:
Bjork - Army of Me
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When Intense Belief Kills →
science:The Atlantic discusses a deadly culture-bound syndrome. When you’re dreaming, your body becomes paralyzed, so that you don’t act out your dreams in sleep. There are two ways this mechanism could fail: either you could not be paralyzed in sleep, in which case you might sleepwalk or worse. Alternatively, you could wake up while paralyzed, and this feeling, known as sleep paralysis, is...
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fuckyeah1990s:
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
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Life on a Cubic Planet →
science:Planets are not cube-shaped. There’s no physical mechanism that would allow a cubic planet to form naturally, certainly not one the size of Earth, and even if you somehow built one, gravity would eventually turn it into a sphere. This is nothing more than a light-hearted thought experiment. But assuming you had a cube-shaped Earth, what would it be like?
If you were dropped in the middle...
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csebastian:
The Sundays - Here’s Where the Story...
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“But there’s also a little part of me—maybe a big part—that secretly wants to get...”
– Alison, 21 year old college senior, Are You Playing Baby Roulette?: Health & Fitness: glamour.com
To Alison and all others who play the odds: I look forward to the follow-up article 10 years from now about how you’re a divorced mother struggling to make rent / can’t even think about getting...
