May 2013
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The Name of the Doctor feelings
mrspondhudson:
Waiting for ‘The Name of the Doctor’:
Seeing ‘The Name of the Doctor’ in the list of available episodes:
Loading up ‘The Name of the Doctor’:
Watching ‘The Name of the Doctor’:
SUDDENLY:
Seeing that in ‘The Name of the Doctor’:
Seeing the words ‘Doctor Who returns November 23rd’:
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Hank's Tumblr: Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing →
edwardspoonhands:
First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize.
But there are a number of circumstances in which…
Steampunk: An Introduction for Teens | The New... →
Jon Foster/from Boneshaker by Cherie Priest What is Steampunk? For a way to explain a fantasy subgenre, Steampunk is not very descriptive. According to The Steampunk Bible (2011), it can be explained most easily by this equation: Steampunk = Mad Scientist Inventor [invention (steam x airship or meta…
America's first climate refugees →
climateadaptation:
It’s a choice confronting more than 180 native communities in Alaska, which are flooding and losing land because of the ice melt that is part of the changing climate.
In a special three part series on the imminent crisis, the Guardian has visited Newtok and spoken to the villagers, politicians and climate scientists about their plight. You can
read about it here.
The...
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11 Strange Movie Job Titles—Explained!
mentalflossr:
Here’s what the key grip, best boy, and gaffer actually do, plus the origins of all those titles.
Five facts about reading:
rumputsantoso:
Fact 1: Reading can make you a better conversationalist.
Fact 2: Neighbours will never complain that your book is too loud.
Fact 3: Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been perfected. You’d better read.
Fact 4: Books have stopped bullets - reading might save your life.
Fact 5: Dinosaurs didn’t read. Look what happened to them.
