March 2010
40 posts
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing...”
– Dale Carnegie (via calidre) (via quote-book) (via brasilpop)
Paris 26 Gigapixels - Interactive virtual tour of... →
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.”
– Vincent Van Gogh(via karlabee20)
UK ignoring systemic evidence of torture among...
(via guardian.co.uk) Charities say reports of abuse being routinely ignored is a ‘systemic and increasing problem’
“A number involve torture survivors, including one from the DRC who ended up in hospital last March after sustaining severe handcuff injuries during an attempted deportation from the UK by private security guards. His complaint to the Border Agency tells how six...
“There’s what people want to hear, then there’s what people want to believe,...”
– The International(via filmquotes)(via brasilpop)
Caltech Scientists Find First Physiological... →
followingshade:selva:azspot: Specifically, the team found that the reward centers in the human brain respond more strongly when a poor person receives a financial reward than when a rich person does. The surprising thing? This activity pattern holds true even if the brain being looked at is in the rich person’s head, rather than the poor person’s.
“What was surprising was the other side of...
