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By Josephine Wall.
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There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Why did God make everyone so different if He wanted all of us to be the same?
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Genius…means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder →
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
Yes, except—this isn’t sad, it’s beautiful, if a little overwhelming.
Isn’t it weird how when you think about the infinite tiny details of a single person’s life, you realize how big the world really is? Because each person is a world, and there’s over 6 billion of them. Mindblowing.
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By Josephine Wall
(via rememberedrealms)
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He’s one of those unique types.
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I have all the traits of a perfectionist, but I’m not good enough at it to call myself that.
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Guard your cynicism while it lasts.
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Linus Pauling - Statistically significant social skills
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French people having “Post-It Wars” with workers from buildings across the street
I wanna do this! >.<
Wow!
(via youcancallmelupin)
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(via Our Government at Work)
lol, this explains a lot about our recent history…
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By now you are probably well familiar with the concept of the urban heat island effect, even if you can’t quite pinpoint the physics at play when your sneaker sole melts a little on a hot black street in July. Asphalt is an awesome material for storing the sun’s heat. On a steamy summer day, the surface of a road may be as hot as 140 degrees Fahrenheit. And it’ll stay that miserable long after the sun sets, pushing up the temperature of whole neighborhoods covered in this blacktop.
A lot of work has gone into figuring out how to combat the effect. We could plant more tree cover. We couldpaint black surfaces white. We could construct… artificial glaciers. But this idea might top them all: Why don’t we use that heat instead of fighting it?
“The bottom line is that roads get hot in summertime, even springtime,” says Rajib Mallick, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. “They have a large surface area, which is collecting solar energy. Why not use that solar energy for something? It’s free energy, and if you use it, at the same time you can lower the temperature of the pavement.”
Mallick and other researchers have been developing a model that would harness the heat contained in asphalt and put it to productive uses. Asphalt, for instance, could heat water coursing through a series of pipes embedded in the road. And that process would both cool street surfaces and send their heat somewhere useful.
Very cool. Cheesy pun intended.
(via abaldwin360)
