This is HANDS DOWN my favorite grammatical example.
i am such an oxford comma enthusiast
i will never ever whisper “i dont give a fuck about an oxford comma” while typing a paper again
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Each morning, like clockwork, they board the subway, off to begin their daily routine amidst the hustle and bustle of the city.
But these aren’t just any daily commuters. These are stray dogs who live in the outskirts of Moscow Russia and commute on the underground trains to and from the city centre in search of food scraps.
Then after a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they hop back on the train and return to the suburbs where they spend the night.
Experts studying the dogs, who usually choose the quietest carriages at the front and back of the train, say they even work together to make sure they get off at the right stop – after learning to judge the length of time they need to spend on the train.
Scientists believe this phenomenon began after the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, and Russia’s new capitalists moved industrial complexes from the city centre to the suburbs.
Dr Andrei Poiarkov, of the Moscow Ecology and Evolution Institute, said: “These complexes were used by homeless dogs as shelters, so the dogs had to move together with their houses. Because the best scavenging for food is in the city centre, the dogs had to learn how to travel on the subway – to get to the centre in the morning, then back home in the evening, just like people.”
Dr Poiarkov told how the dogs like to play during their daily commute. He said: “They jump on the train seconds before the doors shut, risking their tails getting jammed. They do it for fun. And sometimes they fall asleep and get off at the wrong stop.”
The dogs have also amazingly learned to use traffic lights to cross the road safely, said Dr Poiarkov. And they use cunning tactics to obtain tasty morsels of shawarma, a kebab-like snack popular in Moscow.
With children the dogs “play cute” by putting their heads on youngsters’ knees and staring pleadingly into their eyes to win sympathy – and scraps.
Dr Poiarkov added: “Dogs are surprisingly good psychologists.”(via strawberry-poof)
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Like a thief in the night, the malaria parasite did its quick work and vanished inside a blood cell. But someone else was watching.
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Diane Keaton drunk on Ellen talking about sex is the best thing ever.
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(Source: youngrapunzels, via fuckyeahsexanddrugs)
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i believe there will soon be a time when the eastern method to life meets the western and a celebration of understanding will be had. it will be a peace party the universe will remember.
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Energy harvesting pavement powers its own streetlights.
London-based startup Pavegen has developed tiling that can harvest kinetic energy from people’s footsteps, turning it into up to 8 watts of electricity per footstep.
The tiles are made of 95 percent recycled tyres, and use a proprietary wireless communications technology to transmit data about the number of footfalls and the energy generated via the Internet. A wireless network of the tiles could provide valuable information to city planners and nearby business owners about the number of pedestrians in the area at different times of the day.
At the last Summer Olympics in London, the tiles were installed outside a tube station where they generated enough energy to power lights in the area for five hours a night.
(Source: designnews.com, via 8bitfuture)
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"Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself & a little less time trying to impress people."
The Breakfast Club (1985)
(Source: im-a-mannish-boy, via evilos)
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What happens to a wet washcloth when wrung out in space? Astronaut Chris Hadfield answers this question from students with a demonstration. Without gravity to pull the water downward, surface tension effects dominate and the wrung cloth forms a tube of water around it. Surface tension and capillary action draw the fluid up and onto Hadfield’s hands as long as he holds the cloth. After he lets go, we see that the water remaining around the cloth soaks back in (again due to capillary action) and the wet, twisted washcloth simply floats without releasing water or relaxing its shape. While pretty much what I would have expected, this was a very cool result to see! (Video credit: C. Hadfield/CSA; submitted by Bobby E)
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Maybe MJ isn’t really dead at all. Maybe he’s been testing our faith this whole time.
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SHUSH DAWKINS, REAL SCIENTISTS ARE TALKING
Nye rules, Dawkins droolz.
Dawkins looks so pissed. Ahahaha thank you Bill Nye!
Why is this so damned hard for some people to understand?
i grew up watching him and he continues to thrill me with his logical humor and passion for science.
(Source: scienceing)
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The Monuments Men of World War II
The Monuments Men were a group of men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered had expertise as museum directors, curators, art scholars and educators, artists, architects, and archivists. The Monuments Men job description was simple: to save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat.
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Alan Friedman - HD Photos of the Sun
Beautiful textures of our nearest star.
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