Sweet Jenn

2012-01-09

easypeasylemonsqueezy:

hahaha, i will always reblog this.

hahaha, i will always reblog this.

2011-12-12

Stunning video tribute to the space shuttle program

As part of Brian Cox’s traveling Uncaged Monkey science extravaganza, Adam Rutherford put together this video commemoration of the NASA space shuttle program, in collaboration with Nature Video. It’s the most inspirational video I’ve seen in ages. I got chills when the Challenger disaster was shown. The music is by 65 Days of Static, and it’s perfect. I’ve honestly never been more proud of NASA.

Do yourself a huge favor and kick back, crank up the volume, hit fullscreen, and watch the hell out of this video.

Source: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com

2011-12-11

What is the punchline to the joke?
It was revealed in Premiere Magazine that there was no punchline. According to Judd Nelson, “I made the joke up. My line when I fall into the room is, ‘Forgot my pencil,’ so we were trying to work backward from that, but what joke would have that punchline?”

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Source: thefilmjunkie

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All I Really Want To Do ~ The Byrds

Written by bob dylan

I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy, or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you

No, I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you
Frighten you or uptighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you

I don’t want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me

I don’t want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you

*I love both the original Bob Dylan version and The Byrds cover of this song. The words are so great, it puts people’s egos and defensiveness into perspective. It reminds me to think objectively and consider everyone with tolerance and understanding.

**Also how awesome is the Byrd’s take on it. It’s so poppy and friendly!

Ravens communicate with gestures, a first for non-primates

Before they can talk, babies use gestures to communicate: sentiments such as “take this away,” “look over there,” and “put me down” can be made abundantly clear without words. Chimps gesture to each other, as well, pointing out particular spots where they’d like to be scratched or groomed. These symbolic gestures are believed to be an important precursor to language. Now, researchers have observed ravens using gestures in the wild—the only non-primates seen doing so.

Over two years, the researchers saw ravens pick up stones, moss, and other non-edible items with their beaks, and display or offer those objects to another bird, usually of the opposite sex. The other raven, in turn, usually looked over in response, and often had positive interactions with the gesturing raven. Other birds gift gifts while courting, but in this case, the birds weren’t delivering the moss and stones to the recipient; the objects aren’t put towards a purpose like making nests, as such gifts often are, and seem to be used solely to get noticed and spark an interaction. Since ravens form monogamous, highly cooperative pairs, these interactions could be used to attract the attention of a possible mate or solidify the bond with an existing one, the researchers suggest. Finding gestures in a species so distant from our own, they say, could help illuminate the origins of human language.

Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com