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Expectation vs. Reality

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Wine forgery, like art forgery and art theft, shouldn’t be illegal, just like any other crime where the only consequence is obscenely rich people having slightly less money

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so there was flash flooding in my town yesterday, and the lower portions of the university started to flood before class was canceled. we’re talking waterfall staircases, runoff several inches deep, the works.

anyway, a student stole one of the patio umbrellas from the student center and things escalated

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Hey guys did I mention I live on a fucking weird island and sometimes land crabs with 8-inch claws try to get into my house

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Linda is a ride or die

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Glassworks by Preston Singletary

Preston had more than a decade of experience working on the teams for various master glass-artists before he began to make works that combined his own Tlingit heritage and traditional objects with blown glass. He has occupied a unique position as an aboriginal artist who trained solely in glass. He has traveled extensively to study international glass techniques, including visits to Sweden and Finland. He is considered the bridge-artist between glass-blowing and Northwest Coast art, which are the two dominant art forms of the Pacific Northwest. He has worked with many other aboriginal artists now interested in the glass medium and who have recognized the potential of the glass medium as a possible new direction. Today, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in such collections as the Seattle Art Museum, the new National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Museum of History and Art in Anchorage. His solo-exhibition “Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows” was unveiled at the Tacoma Museum of Glass in 2009 and is currently touring to major institutions across North America. This collection is documented in a book by the same name and is published in the United States by the Tacoma Museum of Glass and in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Publishers.

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This is the most genius thing i’ve seen in years. Thank you happytoast.co.uk 💯

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What if instead of abducting cows, aliens just picked cows up and got them over the fence to escape.

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The most frightening words a researcher could read on PubPeer are ‘There are concerns’

Since 2012, the message board PubPeer has served as a sort of 4chan for science, allowing anyone to post anonymous comments on scientific studies. Originally intended as a forum for the discussion of methods and results, PubPeer has perhaps become best known as a clearinghouse for accusations of scientific error, fraud, and misconduct—forcing journals to issue corrections and retractions, damaging careers, and eventually embroiling the site in a court case in which it’s advised by Edward Snowden’s legal team at the American Civil Liberties Union.

In the view of its critics, PubPeer enables an unchecked stream of accusations with no accountability. But to its supporters, PubPeer is maybe the only consistently effective way to expose fraud and error in the current scientific system. It exists at a time of quiet crisis for science and science journals, when the community is concerned about an inability to replicate past results—the so-called “reproducibility crisis”—and the number of papers retracted is on the rise. The traditional system of peer review seems unable to address these problems.

“We started it because we wanted more detailed arguments about science, and we were really shocked at how many fundamental problems there are with papers, involving very questionable research practices and rather obvious misconduct,” said Brandon Stell, a neuroscientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the creator of PubPeer.

There’s certainly no denying its effect. According to Retraction Watch, a blog that monitors scientific corrections, errors, and fraud, at least three high-profile scientists in the past few months have had their studies retracted by journals after their data was questioned by anonymous commenters on PubPeer.

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Dumb customers (Sarah Schauer)

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UNC rape survivor Delaney Robinson comes forward with brave statement

Delaney Robinson, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill alleged Tuesday that a football player at the school raped her in February and that UNC has done nothing about it. In a powerful personal statement she explained how “she did everything a rape victim is supposed to do.”

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me, using a ouija board: A... L... I... V... E...

friend: alive? ALIVE?? is it saying it's alive????

me: idk i'll keep going

me: S.. T.. A.. Y.. I.. N... A.. L.. I.. V.. E..

friend:

me: shit this is a Bee Gee board