Unless I’m misreading this quote, I think Dear Abby was coming down on the side of gay acceptance - way to be back in the day!
The Zombie Apocalypse hits Florida -
5/16: McArthur High School HazMat Situation
Students, Teachers Decontaminated After Breaking Out In Rash
5/19: No confirmation on chemical at Fort Lauderdale International Airport
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While I feel somewhat bad for the Neanderthals - mainly I have an strong sense of Homo Sapien pride that our ancestors were that badass. It’s like brains and technology have always been our secret weapon.
Humanity’s Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals
Neanderthals lived and thrived in Europe for 250,000 years. Then humans showed up. Within 10,000 years, they were extinct. How did humans crowd them out, evolutionarily?
A new theory says that the beginnings of paleolithic dog domestication could have given early humans an edge:
Dogs would help humans to identify their prey; but they would also work, the theory goes, as beasts of burden — like the Blackfeet and Hidatsa of the American West, who bred large, strong dogs specifically for hauling strapped-on packs. (Paleolithic dogs were large: They had, their skeletons suggest, a body mass of at least 70 pounds and a shoulder height of at least 2 feet — which would make them, at minimum, the size of a modern-day German shepherd.) Since transporting animal carcasses is an energy-intensive task, getting dogs to do that work would mean that humans could concentrate their energy on more productive endeavors: hunting, gathering, reproducing.
I see what you did there.
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Batman has had many styles throughout the years, but never one quite like this. As a ’50s greaser in this re-imagining by Denis Medri, Batman looks like a hard-core rebel with a cause - and a lead pipe.
via Project Rooftop
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Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your level of enthusiasm measures up to others. If you like something so much that a casual mention of it makes your whole being light up like a halogen lamp, if hearing a stranger fondly mention your favorite book or game is instant grounds for friendship, if you have ever found yourself bouncing out of your chair because something you learned blew your mind so hard that you physically could not contain yourself — you are a geek.
I’m incredibly biased, of course, but based on that last paragraph, I think we geeks sound like pretty awesome people to be around. So why, then, the lingering social stigma?
” —What It Means To Be A Geek - The Mary Sue
Great little analysis on the changing social stigma of “geekhood” … the detail-oriented passionate pursuit of very specific knowledge. I think networks like Tumblr and Facebook let people find that social connection that used to be missing from their once-lonely passions.
In this connected age geeks aren’t outcasts, because their allies don’t have to be right next to them. They can be thousands of miles away, never meet, and know each other completely.
(via jtotheizzoe)
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100% correct.
Chris Evans* on gay marriage:
It’s insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It’s embarrassing, and it’s heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I’m completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we’ll be ashamed that this was an issue.
via: 20 Q | Playboy
