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‘Rat Park’ -Stuart McMillen
You’ll never think about drug addiction the same way again after reading this comic.
What I found absolutely impressive and stunning about this comic is the way the artist explained the identification and elimination of the confounding factors in the Rat Park study. This is one of the hardest parts of experiments to explain to the public, and I think it was just brilliantly done.
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aleskot.tumblr.com “Pretentious” — a word now regularly used by people who feel threatened by a certain depth of perception. Rampant anti-intellectualism is one of the core signs of authoritarian state’s attempts to strengthen its grip on its general populace.
To add to the authoritarian state, now we also…
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More Than a Tweet I have always tried to be as transparent with you guys as possible, letting you in on the process of making (and not making) Community. So maybe my silence on the issue of a hypothetical sixth season seems frustrating. I was thinking I could stay quiet because there’s too much to say and anything…
Thoughtful, insightful response. Really like the bit about community being about “to stop being mad at each other and be mad at the dysfunctional systems instead.”
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On Poverty
Disclaimer: I have been trying to write this for almost a year and I’m tremendously dissatisfied with the result. It is three and a half thousand words long and has been drafted and revised so many times that I give up and release it from this endless, painful gestation.
I have never owned a table.
Sure, the place I live in has a table. It’s a glass table and it’s considerably better than the slightly wobbly wooden table in the previous place I lived in but, being glass, I’m perpetually terrified it will break and then I’ll have to pay for it. Then I’ll have paid for a table and still never have actually owned one.
I couldn’t tell you how much a table costs, but I did buy the cheapest and most basic desk for £50 once. I have a feeling I’d be charged a lot more than that if this table broke.
That philosophy extends to everything around me where I live, where I have lived: I don’t own it, but I will be paying for it if something goes wrong. There is a special sort of added excitement to this, since most of the places I’ve lived in have had all sorts of things wrong with them already, things from faulty electrics to ill-fitting windows to no doors that will close properly anywhere, that are never addressed. I’ve feared these things as well because I’ve wondered if I’m going to be the tenant who is deemed to be responsible for them, particularly because landladies and landlords seem to be curiously divorced from the properties they own. They always live far away, or they’re out of town or they’re overseas again. One landlady looked around a flat I was renting from her with surprise and awe and bafflement, failing to recognise many of its features.
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Hi Mr. Bendis. Why do you think. people in general have such a shallow, short-sighted view on Cyclops ? Especially those who vehemently hate him, and those who seem to love him ONLY for his actions in AvX ( without looking at the long, complicated history of his character) . He is arguably the most complex and misunderstood character in Marvel comics.
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because he is arguably the most complex and misunderstood character in all of popular fiction.
every day that I am in charge of him I am convinced he might be the most interesting character in all of Marvel capable of just about anything. I absolutely believe that
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Guys, my most serious article ever. WHY THOR IS THE NEW SUPERMAN.
Cultural Lessons of 2013: Thor is the new Superman
Thor smiles; naturally, even. The new Superman smiles with sad eyes, like it’s a bone thrown to the audience to let them know that this isn’t just a flying Batman. Thor battles the bad guys with a sense of fun, even though, and here’s the interesting part, he’s a warrior who surely kills people. So, do I have a double standard here? Why is it OK for fictional alien do-gooder No. 1 to kill people and not the other guy? Well, it’s all in the execution, so to speak. Superman unleashed holy hell in a dark, painfully contrived, no-win scenario, culminating in a disturbing snapping of a person’s neck. Thor threw his super-hammer at a rock monster in a daylight battle, smashing it to pieces, and then delivering a fun quip. Did that rock monster have a rock family? A little rock monster at home, wondering where rock daddy is? I don’t know. Who cares? It was gleeful and ludicrous and unreal, like a comic book. Bloodless and bright: natpo.st/1f0nkYS[Illustration by Steve Murray]
Completely agree
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Most Underreported Stories of 2013 Amongst the list, the IPCC’s report on climate change that received almost no coverage, the SCOTUS overturning of key provisions in the Voting Rights Act, and more.
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my name is matt and i'm an alcoholic and a drug addict seven years and three days ago, i spent christmas in an emergency room in florida. food poisoning. we went to make sure i’d be okay to fly and ended up there most of the day waiting out the real tragedies and injuries. my wife, her great aunt, and an endless loop on CNN about the death of James…
Thoughtful and engaging account of addiction and depression. However low and lost you feel there are people who can support you and have some understanding of what you are going through.
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Really enjoyed the new HOBBIT movie. And I was pleasantly surprised to see people of color among the citizens of Laketown. But it got me thinking, so I made a list.
LIST OF THE CHARACTERS IN LORD OF THE RINGS AND THE HOBBIT WHO COULD PLAUSIBLY BE PLAYED BY NON-WHITE ACTORS
1. Any of them.
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