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2012 -- A Scientific Reality Check

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology

via www.jpl.nasa.gov

Does NASA really have to put out a statement that the world ISN'T going to end? Have we fallen that far down the folklore rabbit hole?

I think everyone in high school should volunteer at a hospital as a runner or a candystriper. If more people spent time in one, perhaps they would realize that a big, cultural shift in how we think about death MUST be made to address death and dying in any health insurance model.

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Geeky Clean! — Magic Missile and Fireball

via www.geekyclean.com

YES. Why aren't you buying this for the geek in your life?

Ever since going to the Smith Faculty Dance Performance, wherein this song was choregraphed, I've been obsessively listening to it on repeat. The dance was beautiful (said a girl who knows NOTHING about dance) and it's been stuck in my head all week. I wish there was a video of it somewhere, but the music will have to suffice.

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Another song in they used in the piece. Beautiful.

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Happy Solstice!

Etsy Buy Handmade absquatulate

I'm just *saying*...

The Grey-t Cape-r Coat-Mod Retro Indie Clothing & Vintage Clothes

via www.modcloth.com

Heaven help me.

Kat has a good point in the comments down there. Here is the same coat without the cape:

They Might Be Giants: Science is Real

Double Matinee Coat

via letrainbleu.com

I am in love with this coat. Wouldn't it be perfect on a quiet winter's evening in a city?