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…the more I think about it, the more ridiculous and dangerous and just incredibly sad to me it seems that we construct exercise, moving the body, as something we do primarily as a competition, whether with ourselves or others. It’d be like falling in love competitively. Like appreciating a sunset competitively. Like listening to music or spending time with an aging relative or taking a shower competitively. We do these things because they are good. Because they make us feel good. Because they are a joyful and glorious part of a rich human life.
Naomi Alderman
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Some of my favourite poster quotes from the “28 Days, 28 Photos - Celebrating Black History Month!” series from Because of Them We Can by Eunique Jones.
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beautiful review <3
TV Review: "Fresh Off the Boat"
TV Review: “Fresh Off the Boat”
Synopsis (ABC): It’s the 90s and 12 year old, hip-hop loving Eddie (Hudson Yang) just moved to suburban Orlando from DC’s Chinatown with his parents (Randall Park and Constance Wu). It’s culture shock for his immigrant family in this comedy about pursuing the American Dream. “Fresh Off the Boat” is based on Chef Eddie Huang’s memoir Fresh Off the Boat.
“Fresh Off the Boat” is executive produced…
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Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
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Just found this podcast and I love it!
The Oscar’s are white as FUCK this year and we are having NONE OF THAT SHIT.
Listen. Rinse. Repeat.
xoxo,
Eartha and Dorothy
Links:
http://oscar.go.com/nominees
http://verysmartbrothas.com/its-okay-to-be-mad-that-selma-was-ignored-by-the-academy/
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/academy-president-cheryl-boone-isaacs-speaks-out-about-lack-oscars-n288141
http://www.inquisitr.com/1760727/oscars-so-white-twitter-hashtag-attacks-the-lack-of-diversity-among-oscar-nominees/
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/19/377702882/at-90-shes-designing-tech-for-aging-boomers
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This song is dedicated to Sonya.
P.S. I wanna bone ya My cousins and I wrote this about my aunt Sonya when I was in elementary school. We’re always picking on Sonya anyways we didn’t know how to make songs back then but I do now!
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Annie J. Easley
By Agent Kate B
You’re never too old, and if you want to,
as my mother said, you can do anything you want to,
but you have to work at it.
Annie J Easley
As part of our celebration of African-American History Month,we at Geek Squad would like to recognize the many accomplishments of noted computer scientist, mathematician and rocket scientist, Annie J. Easley.
Her career
After graduating from high school, Ms. Annie J. Easley began her career in 1955 as a “human computer” for NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). At a time when machine calculation was limited to key-punched cards manually fed into enormous machines capable only of multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division, Ms. Easley was part of a team responsible for calculating (by hand, mind you) the complex mathematical functions needed by scientists (like logarithms, exponentials, and square roots).
While still employed by the NACA, Ms. Easley earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Cleveland State University in 1977. She also participated in continuing education and specialization programs specifically sponsored by the National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA).
During her 34 year career with NACA (and later, NASA), Ms. Easley is credited as being one of the first African American women in the field of rocket science, mathematics, and computer sciences. She helped develop the software for the Centaur Rocket – a high-energy rocket that came to be known as ‘America’s Workhorse in Space”. She developed and implemented computer code that analyzed alternative power technologies for electric vehicles. She also studied technologies for wind and solar energies, as well as solving problems of energy monitoring and conservation. Some of Easley’s work helped lead the way to the development of batteries for modern Hybrid cars.
Easley’s work on the Centaur project helped develop the technological foundations for space shuttle launches, as well as launches of communication, military and weather satellites. Her work contributed to the 1997 flight to Saturn of the Cassini probe, which was launched by the Centaur.
Annie’s work helped make modern-day space flight possible — and for this, we salute her.
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Distant Planet Terrified It Might Be Able To Someday Support Human Life
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