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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
Kurt Vonnegut (via yourbrainiscute)
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Found from sandy shallows and reefs to the murky seabed nearly a mile down, nudibranchs thrive in waters both warm and cold and even around billowing deep-sea vents. Members of the gastropod class, and more broadly the mollusks, the mostly finger-size morsels live fully exposed, their gills forming tufts on their backs. (Nudibranch means “naked gill,” a feature that separates them from other sea slugs.) Although they can release their muscular foothold to tumble in a current—a few can even swim freely—they are rarely in a hurry.
These stunning photos were taken by famed underwater photographer David Doubilet for National Geographic Magazine. The featured article by Jennifer S. Holland, goes into lovely detail about about the wide variety of nudibranch species and physiology, but also into the current scientific investigations being conducted on these dynamic creatures of the sea.
The feature includes Davids amazing photo gallery and a video on the “glamour” of the nudibranchs by the man himself and the behavior he observed during their photo shoots.
You can see from this picture just how these amazing high res photo were created in his underwater studio.
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Either America will persist in— even strengthen the deeply immoral attitude of ‘Why should this happen to us? Things like this don’t happen here!’, leading to more aggressivity towards the threatening Outside — in short: to a paranoiac acting out. Or America will finally risk stepping through the fantasmatic screen that separates it from the Outside World, accepting its arrival in the Real world, making the long-overdue move from ‘A thing like this shouldn’t happen here!’ to ‘A thing like this shouldn’t happen anywhere!’.
Slavoj Žižek, on the impact of 9/11 in Welcome to the Desert of the Real (via dangerouswitnesses)
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Jean-Paul Sartre and his cat Nothing.
THE CAT WAS NAMED NOTHING ARE YOU KIDDING ME WHAT.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan Watts (via paralytic-dreams)
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New York City: “U.S. Hands Off Venezuela” march and rally in solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution, April 11, 2013.
Photos: Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle
