July 2011
28 posts
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nthword:
If we look, however, with X-rays inside of the man, we’ll see bones and shadows: ghosts of fiestas and landscapes in motion as if viewed from an airplane in tailspin. We’ll see the eyes he saw, the lips his fingers brushed, a body emerged from a snowstorm. And we’ll see the naked body, just as he saw it, and the eyes and the lips he brushed, and we’ll know that there’s no cure....
“You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I...”
– Richard Feynman - The Pleasure of finding things out. (via scipsy)
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“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via livejamie)
Pinkwashing: Corporate Sponsored Cancer →
One of the most poignant instances of pinkwashing is the cosmetics giant Avon. The company launched the “Kiss Goodbye to Breast Cancer” campaign in 2001 with a fundraising lipstick in six shades. Those lipsticks may have contained ingredients that disrupt hormone functions, which is in turn linked to breast cancer; as many as 9 in 10 cases of breast cancer have no family history and may be caused...
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