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Know your data, the rest is talking (via Hans Rosling one-minute TED talk)

LOVE ! (via Creating Trouble :: Cube Grenades from gapingvoid art)

~200mph Street Race~ ~~SpecTTacular TT~~ (by lockk9)

This is Syria. For or Against doesn’t matter. This should break our hearts.

How to raise your kids (by tedamongfriends)

Real texas girls don’t drive cars (Taken with instagram)

But it’s also because I associate Roosevelt Island with uncertainty and transition; it was the place where I lived when I wasn’t sure I even liked New York. I can see now that I was attracted to the island, to its strangeness, because I was grieving, and grief makes normal life seem strange. As much as I longed to be a part of the city, the business of being a striving New Yorker made no sense to me in the wake of my mother’s death. I felt detached from ambition — Manhattan’s core value — and on Roosevelt Island, I could be detached from Manhattan itself.

Still, I used to love sitting on my balcony, looking at that glittering skyline at a safe distance across the water. It was a view that never got stale. Nick Carraway actually describes it in “The Great Gatsby,” when he and Gatsby are driving across the Queensboro Bridge. From Gatsby’s big car, New York seems to be “the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” This comes toward the beginning of the novel, before everything gets complicated, when Nick is just beginning to fall under Gatsby’s spell. The two of them are heading into the city — and crossing over Roosevelt Island.

(Source: The New York Times)

First Contact (by CMGW Photography)

The takeaway from these numbers probably isn’t that all mothers should work even if they prefer to stay at home (although that subject did seem to occupy the political debate for a while last month).

Rather, the authors suggest that “more societal recognition of the difficult job stay-at-home mothers have raising children would perhaps help support them emotionally,” and that more affordable child care options could help ensure that the mothers who are at home are in that role by choice.

(via 500px / Photo “Untitled” by Brooke Pennington) I no fear death. Cmon then!