"Really impressive,” said Rachel Johnson, a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. “And the really important thing — the coolest thing — is that they used very meaningful endpoints. They did not look at risk factors like cholesterol or hypertension or weight. They looked at heart attacks and strokes and death. At the end of the day, that is what really matters."
it’s amazing how rehabilitated Richard III looks like Peter Sellers in the same role. genius actor!
Well played!
(Source: ifyoulivedhereyoudbehomebynow)
Caspar David Friedrich, Wreck in the Sea of Ice or Ship in the Polar Sea, 1798
(via theredshoes)
Married to the Sea: ethical history of the diamond
I don’t always keep up to date with Married to the Sea, but this sort of thing is why it stays on my “should read” list.
"…then Tom started saying he was too fat as well and was going to go on a diet.
“How many calories are you supposed to eat if you’re on a diet?” he said
“About a thousand. Well, I usually aim for a thousand and come in at about fifteen hundred,” I said, realizing as said it that the last bit wasn’t strictly true.
“A thousand?” said Tom, incredulously. “But I thought you needed two thousand a day just to survive.”
I looked at him nonplussed. I realized I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe that nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.
“How many calories in a boiled egg?” Said Tom.
“Seventy-five"
“How many calories are you supposed to eat if you’re on a diet?” he said
“About a thousand. Well, I usually aim for a thousand and come in at about fifteen hundred,” I said, realizing as said it that the last bit wasn’t strictly true.
“A thousand?” said Tom, incredulously. “But I thought you needed two thousand a day just to survive.”
I looked at him nonplussed. I realized I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe that nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.
“How many calories in a boiled egg?” Said Tom.
“Seventy-five"
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary, p. 257 [Diary Entry: Sunday 5th November]
"This explains the near-universal anxiety over the movie’s frequent use of the word n[…], and someone asked Tarantino if he thought he had used it too much in the movie, and his response was perfect: “too much, in comparison to how much it was used back then?"
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No Self-Respecting Woman Would Go Out Without Make Up, The Last Psychiatrist
This to me says more about why Tarantino chose to make a movie set on a slave plantation than anything else. I mean, we all know that n[…] is his favourite word.
Please Stop
To anyone and everyone who is reblogging or posting pictures of dead or injured children (or anyone) connected to the current violence raging in Israel/Palestine, please stop.
Please stop spreading images of the worst time in someone’s life.
Please stop spreading images of salacious violence.
Please stop spreading images of death that are used as propaganda.
Please stop enabling the callous and cynical use of pain and suffering.
Please stop enabling the media to be a source of death pornography.
The use of dead children to create sympathy says more about you, than about anything else.
I ask this, not because I am a sensitive and delicate flower who cannot abide the image of blood or of poor dead babies. No, it is because I despise the use of pain and suffering of real people as an attempt to manipulate my emotions.
I hope the worst time of your lives aren’t used so callously.
“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent- if not inappropriate- response.”
Susan Sontag, “Regarding the Pain of Others”
Once upon a time, in a kingdom in the Global South, a lovely little princess was born. At her naming ritual, a private and sacred event, the gathered adults blessed her with grace, thick hair, a good strong singing voice, and other princessly virtues. Everyone was having a lovely time, when the…
To the Republicans
who said they would move
to Australia if Obama won:
Australia has universal health care,
compulsory voting,
no guns, no death penalty,
pro-choice when it comes to contraception,
openly gay politicians and judges,
evolution is taught in all schools,
and our female PM is an unmarried atheist
Be sure to declare your pitchforks at Tullamarine
****
Felicity Ryan, 6th November, 2012
@CalledFelicity
