February 2012
"Do you believe in birth control?"
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
Asked at tonight’s GOP debate. Like that is a real question. As if birth control is on same level as “unicorns” or “leprechauns”. Is birth control now a “theory” like evolution or climate change?
Also, it is 2012 or 1927?
In related thoughts, my head is sore from banging it into the wall.
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
abaldwin360:
imperialchill:
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It...
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via hanahyorke)
NBC and 'Community' Launching 'Inspector... →
popculturebrain:
hulu:
Turns out the question really is when. 4 awesome words say it all: Inspector Spacetime web series.
From i09:
Word out of the Gallifrey One Doctor Whoconvention is that there is going to be a web series of Community’s Who-parody showInspector Spacetime. It sounds like it won’t be Donald Glover and Danny Pudi in the starring roles, however. Travis Richey, who plays...
No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
– George MacDonald (via misswallflower)
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...
– Neil Gaiman (via julie911)