edwardspoonhands:

drinkandwater:

Favorite thing.  Go watch the Vlogbrothers.  Seriously, stop reading this and go watch them.

I’m taking this image and making it the thumbnail for that video because it’s beautiful. Thanks.

John&Hank rule!!

#operahouse #sydney #moon (Taken with instagram)

#amazon #kindle (Taken with instagram)

centuries passed, but deep inside, we’re still geocentric. sometimes, just sometimes, the petty sense of self-importance is so annoying.

justbecausewelive:

Fire in the (ISO6400) sky by c@rljones on Flickr.

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sometimes I feel I can see the electrical pulses in my eyes.

barackobama:

“I’m President Barack Obama. And I too want to slow-jam the news.”

scishow:

Yellowstone SUPERvolcano!

discoverynews:

Baboons Can Recognize Words

Baboons can learn to tell the difference between real four-letter words and nonsense combinations of letters. And once they figure out the patterns, these monkeys can guess with impressive accuracy whether a new word is real or fake.

Because baboons can’t actually read, a new study supports the theory that the brains of our primate ancestors held the necessary hardware for understanding written words long before humans evolved. Only after we starting writing and reading about 5,400 years or so did we apply our object-recognition abilities to letter symbols.

By the end of the training period, which included about 50,000 trials for each animal, all of the baboons had learned to recognize at least 81 words at an accuracy rate of about 75 percent, the researchers report today in the journal Science. One animal learned more than 300 words.

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image: Baboon eyes, Corbis

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we’re trapped in our time and vision.

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