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"Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been hijacked by an..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:51:50 -0400

“Today is a day of mourning for the children of Chicago. Their education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children. Closing schools is not an education plan. It is a scorched earth policy. Evidence shows that the underutilization crisis has been manufactured. Their own evidence also shows the school district will not garner any significant savings from closing these schools.

This is bad governance. CPS has consistently undermined school communities and sabotaged teachers and parents. Their actions have had a horrible domino effect. More than 40,000 students will lose at least three to six months of learning because of the Board’s actions. Because many of them will now have to travel into new neighborhoods to continue their schooling, some will be victims of bullying, physical assault and other forms of violence. Board members are wishing for a world that does not exist and have ignored the reality of the world we live in today. Who on the Board will be held responsible? Who at City Hall will be held responsible?”

- Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis commenting on today’s news that the Board of Education has voted to close 50 Chicago public schools.

While only around 40 percent of children in Chicago are black are Latino, 90 percent of children whose schools will be shuttered are black or Latino.

(via thepeoplesrecord)

fuck this country. fuck this country. FUCK THIS COUNTRY

(via searchingforknowledge)

Outrageous. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

(via disciplesofmalcolm)

Just as Bloomberg did with N.Y. schools. These guys are dipshits why do we continue letting them run this? Vote these fuckers outta here.

(via ikenbot)

animesuplex: Illustrations by K,Kanehira » Featured on...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:26:08 -0400

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animesuplex:

Illustrations by K,Kanehira » Featured on ANIMESUPLEX

wet-chrome: PROSTHETIC ARM by Kaylene Kau Tentacle arm? Yes,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:21:26 -0400

wet-chrome:

PROSTHETIC ARM by Kaylene Kau

Tentacle arm? Yes, please.

cyberpunkvisions: Neo Seoul - George Hull...

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:47:56 -0400

cyberpunkvisions:

Neo Seoul - George Hull [http://www.ghull.com/#/]

"The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:47:44 -0400

“The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”

- Karl Popper (via invaderxan)

batlesbo: From The Nonadventures of Wonderella by Justin Pierce

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:56:30 -0400

batlesbo:

From The Nonadventures of Wonderella by Justin Pierce

American pacifist James Zwerg of the Freedom Riders...

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:27:07 -0400

American pacifist James Zwerg of the Freedom Riders immediately after being beaten by an angry mob upon arrival in Montgomery, Alabama in 1960. Zwerg was the first off the bus upon its arrival in the terminal and faced the blunt of the crowd’s violence. He would have died that day had it not been for an anonymous black male stepping in and saving his life by deflecting the mob’s attention onto himself.

Great Horned Sunspot May 5th 2013 Turned in this...

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:26:49 -0400

Great Horned Sunspot

May 5th 2013

Turned in this orientation, sunspot 1734 has a definite owlish look. But who gives a hoot, this grand active region looks fantastic from every perspective. — Alan Friedman

Full uncut image here.

misskayvee: Charlie on President Obama Nailed it.

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:23:07 -0400

misskayvee:

Charlie on President Obama

Nailed it.

thechanelmuse: Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain....

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:20:58 -0400

thechanelmuse:

Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain. Fuck your tree. Fuck voter suppression. Fuck your labels. Fuck your stereotypes. Fuck your hatred. Fuck your restaurants. Fuck that dude. Fuck police brutality. Fuck white supremacy.

Photo

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:20:26 -0400

Photo

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:14:10 -0400

batlesbo: apriki: moses u little shit hahaha

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:13:48 -0400

batlesbo:

apriki:

moses u little shit

hahaha

lightspeedsound: manybodies: lightspeedsound: lunapics: thesh...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:16:42 -0400

lightspeedsound:

manybodies:

lightspeedsound:

lunapics:

theshells:

I can’t stop laughing at Harry running the fuck away, the boy who lived ladies and gentlemen.

….You realize, of course, that Hermione Granger lit a teacher on fire when she was eleven, and kept a person alive in a jar for a year when she was fourteen, and studies dark and forbidden magics for kicks, and is one of the brightest and strongest witches of her era. If she came at me, even wandless, I would aparate to Neptune to get away from her.

Hermione Granger also:

punched Draco Malfoy in the nose for being an idiot

purposefully performed a confundus charm on whatshsface WHILE HE WAS FLYING just so Ron would win (omfg that is so fucking dangerous)

literally pulled a fucking Bourne Identity on her parents and managed to set them up in fucking Australia (jesus christ she literally made it so that she NEVER EXISTED wtf that’s so fucking 007)

Convinced the Ministry of Magic to give her an incredibly dangerous and volatile device that allowed her to ALTER TIMELINES COMPLETELY (just because she was so smart, literally, that is the reason, her “potential”)

Has enough basic survival skills and badass magic to literally disappear to the middle of nowhere and flourish AND figure out Voldemort’s plot with Harry

Hermione also figures out not only what Voldemort’s plan is, but generally how to beat it, WAY BEFORE VOLDEMORT EVER DOES. Why? because she is just that much smarter and better at magic than everybody else

in conclusion: Voldemort wishes he could be as awesome as Hermione, that’s why he wants to kill her so bad.

Can we rehave this series with hermione as the protagonist.

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Used the Power of Research and Deductive Reasoning to Make Sure Harry Didn’t Die”

Hermione Granger and “That time I figured shit out and literally ended up petrified for the cause and it took my friends weeks to figure out that I had the research on me”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Was a Time Lord”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I Realized I was Hot and Smart and Saved Harry’s Ass with Research. Again. All the Time. Really, He Would Have Died Without Me.”

Hermione Granger and “That time Harry was too emo to actually do shit so I did shit in his name because I am the power behind the throne clearly also PS fought evil deatheaters and won”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I told Harry about the Dangers of Copying off Somebody’s else’s work that wasn’t mine and OH LOOK I WAS RIGHT”

Hermione Granger and “That Time I let Harry Decide Where to Go and What To do and we ended up wandering the forests of dean for like 5 months before saving his ass at Hogwarts”

Crap I'm stuck.

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:33:31 -0400

batlesbo:

*five minutes later*

shoomlah: Okay I really need to catch up on some sleep

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:33:11 -0400

shoomlah:

Okay I really need to catch up on some sleep

ancientart: Relief of the Persian king Xerxes (485-465 BC) in...

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:31:34 -0400

ancientart:

Relief of the Persian king Xerxes (485-465 BC) in the doorway of his palace at Persepolis, modern-day Iran. The bearers of the parasol and the towel-and flywhisk symbolize the royalty and power of the monarch.

Photo courtesy and taken by Jona Lendering, via the Wiki Commons

skyshipsandcities: Returning to PROJECT: APOLLO AKA the...

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:27:38 -0400

skyshipsandcities:

Returning to PROJECT: APOLLO

AKA the Asteroid City

Pictured here is the first expansion beyond the main asteroid : Tranquility Research Station

The station utilises the top section of PEGASUS combined with a number of smaller research platforms, tethered to an asteroid. The connecting bridge also has a refuelling bay directly beneath it, because why not.

Planned additions :

-Communications station

-Mobile Defence Platforms

-Skyscrapers/the actual damn city

-Finish Starport

-Finish tunnel network

-GOLIATH-esq Cartographer?

ikenbot: Amateur Team Finds ‘Tatooine’ Planet with 2 Suns in...

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:27:08 -0400

ikenbot:

Amateur Team Finds ‘Tatooine’ Planet with 2 Suns in 4-Star System

Image 1: In this family portrait of the PH1 planetary system, the newly discovered planet is depicted in this artist’s rendition transiting the larger of the two eclipsing stars it orbits. Off in the distance, well beyond the planet orbit, resides a second pair of stars bound to the planetary system. Released Oct. 15, 2012. Credit: Haven Giguere/Yale

Amateur astronomers have helped discover an alien planet with two suns and a twinkling twist: The entire twin-sun setup, a real-life version of Tatooine from “Star Wars,” is orbited by two more stars — a solar system that is the first of its kind known.

Image 2: An artist’s illustration of PH1, a circumbinary planet with two parent stars and two more stars orbiting the entire system; PH1 was discovered by volunteers from the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Image released on Oct. 15, 2012. Credit: Haven Giguere/Yale

The alien planet, called PH1, is a gas giant planet slightly bigger than Neptune. Its discovery in the midst of a strange, four-star planetary system is the first confirmed world discovered as part of the Yale University-led Planet Hunters project, in which armchair astronomers work with professional scientists to find evidence of new worlds in the bountiful data collected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

“Planet Hunters is a symbiotic project, pairing the discovery power of the people with follow-up by a team of astronomers,” said Debra Fischer, a professor of astronomy at Yale and planet expert who helped launch Planet Hunters in 2010, in a statement. “This unique system might have been entirely missed if not for the sharp eyes of the public.”

Since its March 2009 launch, Kepler has found evidence of more than 2,300 candidate alien worlds.

Finding a strange, new world

Since its initial discovery via Planet Hunters, the existence of PH1 has been confirmed by a team of professional astronomers, who will present their work today (Oct. 15) at the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Reno, Nev.

With a radius about 6.2 times that of Earth’s, PH1 is a smidge bigger than Neptune. The gassy planet spends 138 days completing a single orbit around its two parent stars, which have masses about 1.5 and 0.41 times that of the sun. The stars circle each other once every 20 days.

The two other stars orbiting the PH1’s twin suns are about 1,000 astronomical units (AU) from the parent stars. (One AU is about the distance between the Earth and sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers.)

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did-you-kno: Source

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:25:05 -0400

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