July 2012
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When he was 19 and stepped up to the blocks in Sydney, Ervin had already set a...
– Olympics 2012: Gold Medal Swimmer Anthony Ervin Is Out to Reclaim His Title | Rolling Stone
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...
– howard zinn.
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After all, advertising trains us to keep our desire always at the ready,...
– Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With ‘Curation’ - NYTimes.com
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There’s a German word for it, of course: Sehnsucht, which translates as...
– Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With ‘Curation’ - NYTimes.com
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The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave... →
csebastian:
In Japan, people often refer to traffic lights as being blue in color. And this is a bit odd, because the traffic signal indicating ‘go’ in Japan is just as green as it is anywhere else in the world. So why is the color getting lost in translation? This visual conundrum has its roots in the history of language.
Blue and green are similar in hue. They sit next to each other in a...
And you have to be resilient and faithful. You can’t be a wimp. You can’t stand...
– The Great Discontent: Cheryl Strayed
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Being the person that always knows and always has an answer, doesn’t leave a lot...
– Andrew Zuckerman | via swissmiss