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astral-plane:Tongariro Crossing by nhuisman

Sun, 15 May 2011 21:33:44 +0200

astral-plane:Tongariro Crossing by nhuisman

calvinnhobbes

Sun, 15 May 2011 21:33:17 +0200

calvinnhobbes

kahsennanoron:tsigili:nolitetebastardes

Sun, 15 May 2011 21:07:16 +0200

kahsennanoron:tsigili:nolitetebastardes

cations:(by laura ja)

Sun, 15 May 2011 20:38:18 +0200

cations:(by laura ja)

(via makezine)

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:53:15 +0200

(via makezine)

Photo

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:29:55 +0200

Fekiria, 14 (left), practices the cello during class alongside...

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:24:01 +0200

Fekiria, 14 (left), practices the cello during class alongside Zahra, 14 at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music on September 26, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s first and only music high school opened in June and now has 150 students, including 27 girls. The Taliban regime, from 1996 to 2001 banned all music, forcing many musicians to put away their instruments or go into exile. The school’s aim is to revive long-neglected musical traditions using both Afghan and foreign instructors. 25 students were recruited from the war-ravaged country’s large number of orphans and street children. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) (via Afghanistan, September, 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Photo

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:51:48 +0200

photoholic:un raggio di sole(by paolo brunetti)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:07:52 +0200

photoholic:un raggio di sole(by paolo brunetti)

katombo:Free Tibet(by siggito) Manikoru. When swinging the...

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:04:22 +0200

katombo:Free Tibet(by siggito)

Manikoru. When swinging the wheel, it sends out prayers with the wind.

Copernican principle

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:49:43 +0200

Copernican principle:

bestofwikipedia:

In physical cosmology, the Copernican principle, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, states that the Earth is not in a central, specially favored position. More recently, the principle has been generalized to the relativistic concept that humans are not privileged observers of the universe. In this sense, it is equivalent to the mediocrity principle, with important implications for the philosophy of science. (via Remy)

paperclippe:vi-rosenrot:(by johnny myreng henriksen)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:49:23 +0200

paperclippe:vi-rosenrot:(by johnny myreng henriksen)

reverse racism?(via data6)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:49:14 +0200

reverse racism?(via data6)

ferrydust:asphodelaceae: klaatu:Dragon Pit

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:47:52 +0200

ferrydust:asphodelaceae: klaatu:Dragon Pit

pathwetread: sendtheslutbacktohell: mo-cho:...

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:44:38 +0200

pathwetread: sendtheslutbacktohell: mo-cho: sendtheslutbacktohell: kimjarman

Whatever controversy may be going on there, there are still way too many girls (most of them are indeed very young girls and teenagers), who DO think that looking like a skeleton is beautiful. Sadly this entire problem is only the surface of something going way way deeper. The major reasons for anorexia are deepest fright and self-hate, up to the point of wanting to die and disappear entirely, literally… Usually this type of deepest hate is a very typical problem for young girls, facing for the first time all the real horrors of male-oriented society while growing up, but not only. That many people in western countries are overweight and that “skinny” becomes rare and thus a sort of wrecked “status symbol” is only making things worse.

artpixie:(via media.tumblr.com)

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:06:15 +0200

artpixie:(via media.tumblr.com)

Tinariwen - Aman Iman (Water is Life) - (7) Imidiwan Winakalin...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:02:53 +0200

Tinariwen - Aman Iman (Water is Life) - (7) Imidiwan Winakalin (via NeuroWhoa)

“The Tuareg are “largely matrilineal”. In Tuareg society women do not...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:50:13 +0200

“The Tuareg are “largely matrilineal”. In Tuareg society women do not traditionally wear the veil, whereas men do.

The most legendary of Tuareg leaders was Tin Hinan, heroine and spiritual leader, believed to have ruled in the fourth or fifth century CE. Tin-Hinan was a Berber princess and often accompanied by her sister Takamat. They came from the Tafilalt mountains in Morocco (Ataram) and founded a legendary kingdom in the Ahaggar mountains.” (from the Wikipedia article about the Tuareg)

tinariwen cler achel (via jamal4096) Desert blues from Mali,...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:26:27 +0200

tinariwen cler achel (via jamal4096) Desert blues from Mali, Africa by the Tuareg band Tinariwen

The Lord of the Rings rooted in racism

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:52:00 +0200

The Lord of the Rings rooted in racism:

“Shyam Bhatia in London | An American academic, who teaches at the Warwick University in the United Kingdom, has described J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy as an ‘epic rooted in racism’.

Dr Stephen Shapiro, an expert in cultural studies, race and slavery, said the author used his novels to present bigotry through a fantasy world.(…)” Read More

The scary thing is that racist views are so “normal” in Northern Europe, that “this could not be racist”. Being a fantasy and science fiction fan, I loved those books as a kid, but later on, especially after the internet revolution, I have seen so much else which was so different (most notably Star Trek, where all races, genders and cultures are depicted as respectable and worthy living beings), that I could not go back to liking it anymore, and did not even remotely consider watching the movies. Maybe the future can bring different epic fantasy, where there is no need to consider a certain race as “subhuman dirt”…