The Pace of Productivity - how to master your creative routine.
(Source: , via youdothemath)
— Albert Einstein.
— J. K. Rowling
Portraits of centenarians
- Shel Silverstein
Don’t order the Skip’s Scramble. Source.
What have we always said is the most important thing? Breakfast.
Take a look at this wonderful recipe for the Skip’s Scramblethat my tumblr buddy Brian made. It includes “I just blue myself” berry waffles, “banana stand” pancakes, bangers in the mouth, model home fries, and many other delicious things.
Now I know what I’m making to celebrate the return of Arrested Development.
This app teaches kids to code by letting them make their own games.
“Solutions are quite complex in maternal health. For us, there is no silver bullet, but we can tell the stories.”
—Christy Turlington Burns is one of this year’s Most Creative People for her work in raising awareness about maternal health.
Every Mother Counts is an incredibly valuable organization raising awareness about issues of global maternal and child health. It does this great work by combining stories and data to create an engaging experience with participants.
In 2011, 1.65 million American households, including 3.55 million children, lived on less than $2 a day per person.
Extreme poverty has been trending upward for a while. It is a trend outside of the 2009 recession and, unlike the rest of the country, it is has not been trending toward recovery in recent years.
— Warren Buffett, on why productive people have empty schedules (via fastcompany)
Gentrification has changed D.C. in more ways than one. BuzzFeed’s John Stanton explains.
A Storify about what it means to see people. We all need to be moved by this story. Change, compassion, and love require action.
I have a feeling half the [people] who say ‘Oooh I love watching him on the internet!’ would turn away if they saw him on the street…They’re actually not the type of people we’re used to seeing or hearing at all, which might explain why we get so silly when they make one of their infrequent forays into our national consciousness.
“We did a screen test and so, they brought in cameras, and then there were four Jims and four Pams, and we got mix-and-matched. Every time I was matched with John, it was so easy and it just was so natural. On the second day, of auditions he leaned over to me and he said, ‘You’re my favorite Pam.’ And I said, ‘You’re my favorite Jim! Oh my gosh! I hope we both get it!’ So, when they called me and said that I got the role, I said, ‘Who’s Jim? Please say John Krasinski.’ They said, ‘Yes, it’s John Krasinski.’ And I knew. I started to cry and I knew that the two of us together… I couldn’t be Pam without him. He’s my Jim. He just is.”
Oh my; please tell me this is real.
Aww.
(Source: notabadday)
Victoria amazonica water lilies can reach 20 feet in circumference and support up to 300 pounds each. Perching children atop the massive leaves was all the rage in water gardens of the time. Salem, North Carolina, c. 1892.
Photograph by Frank Hege, National Geographic
THE DOG IN THE CHAIR.
Laundry on the banks of the Yumura River outside Agra. (natgeo)
Summer Reading: Day One. Whoops, Morning One. #reading #persepolis #graphicnovels
Oh, Nick Miller.
THAT’S RIGHT
My poster design has a sibling! Derogatory use of the term “retarded” is every bit as harmful as that of “gay”,...
Sad news.
My kindle broke in the Maaisi Mara; I gave myself a week before going public about it to allow proper grieving.
But there’s a silver...