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Wes Bentley, Thora Birch, and Mena Suvari on the set of...

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:09:32 +0900

Wes Bentley, Thora Birch, and Mena Suvari on the set of American Beauty, 1999

i can’t even play hard to get i’m already hard to want

Sat, 25 May 2013 23:56:29 +0900

i can’t even play hard to get i’m already hard to want

There are so many girls out there right now that could be with...

Sat, 25 May 2013 23:42:41 +0900

There are so many girls out there right now that could be with him—maybe even a fan—but they would have to know how to handle him.

Sometimes when I’m hanging out with Justin, he’ll say “Let’s jump off a roof!”. I’m always the one saying, “No, let’s not do that”.

- Jaden Smith on Justin’s personal life

aseaofquotes: Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:59:44 +0900

aseaofquotes:

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

katuriankaturiankaturian: beautilation: “I’ll never forget the...

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:16:19 +0900

katuriankaturiankaturian:

beautilation:

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

One of my favorite stories about celebrity.

On the set of Sofia Coppola’s film, the Virgin Suicides,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:14:35 +0900

On the set of Sofia Coppola’s film, the Virgin Suicides, (1999)

ntrl-disasterr: Pretty much sums up my first year in college.

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:15:06 +0900

ntrl-disasterr:

Pretty much sums up my first year in college.

heisalionwhocantalk: sometimes cartoons give the best life...

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:51:51 +0900

heisalionwhocantalk:

sometimes cartoons give the best life advice.

"If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die."

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:56:50 +0900

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

- Unknown. (via holy-flesh)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 04:17:13 +0900

westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real)

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:13:44 +0900

westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real)

upagainstthefuckingwall: Gah I love her

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:09:20 +0900

upagainstthefuckingwall:

Gah I love her

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Thu, 23 May 2013 03:44:03 +0900

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:06:58 +0900

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids.

I’ve never loved a post so much in the history of tumblr.

"What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real."

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:02:47 +0900

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”

- Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You (via larmoyante)

thenewenlightenmentage: What is a Magnetar? A magnetar is a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:23 +0900

thenewenlightenmentage:

What is a Magnetar?

A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field, the decay of which powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma rays.¹

History

On March 5, 1979, several months after dropping probes into the toxic atmosphere of Venus, two Soviet spacecraft, Venera 11 and 12, were drifting through the inner solar system on an elliptical orbit. It had been an uneventful cruise. The radiation readings on board both probes hovered around a nominal 100 counts per second. But at 10:51AM EST, a pulse of gamma radiation hit them. Within a fraction of a millisecond, the radiation level shot above 200,000 counts per second and quickly went off scale.

Eleven seconds later gamma rays swamped the NASA space probe Helios 2, also orbiting the sun. A plane wave front of high-energy radiation was evidently sweeping through the solar system. It soon reached Venus and saturated the Pioneer Venus Orbiter’s detector. Within seconds the gamma rays reached Earth. They flooded detectors on three U.S. Department of Defense Vela satellites, the Soviet Prognoz 7 satellite, and the Einstein Observatory. Finally, on its way out of the solar system, the wave also blitzed the International Sun-Earth Explorer.

The pulse of highly energetic, or “hard,” gamma rays was 100 times as intense as any previous burst of gamma rays detected from beyond the solar system, and it lasted just two tenths of a second. At the time, nobody noticed; life continued calmly beneath our planet’s protective atmosphere. Fortunately, all 10 spacecraft survived the trauma without permanent damage. The hard pulse was followed by a fainter glow of lower-energy, or “soft,” gamma rays, as well as x-rays, which steadily faded over the subsequent three minutes. As it faded away, the signal oscillated gently, with a period of eight seconds. Fourteen and a half hours later, at 1:17AM on March 6, another, fainter burst of x-rays came from the same spot on the sky. Over the ensuing four years, Evgeny P. Mazets of the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, and his collaborators detected 16 bursts coming from the same direction. They varied in intensity, but all were fainter and shorter than the March 5 burst.

Astronomers had never seen anything like this. For want of a better idea, they initially listed these bursts in catalogues alongside the better-known gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), even though they clearly differed in several ways. In the mid-1980s Kevin C. Hurley of the University of California at Berkeley realized that similar outbursts were coming from two other areas of the sky. Evidently these sources were all repeating unlike GRBs, which are one-shot events [see “The Brightest Explosions in the Universe,” by Neil Gehrels, Luigi Piro and Peter J. T. Leonard; Scientific American, December 2002]. At a July 1986 meeting in Toulouse, France, astronomers agreed on the approximate locations of the three sources and dubbed them “soft gamma repeaters” (SGRs). The alphabet soup of astronomy had gained a new ingredient.

Another seven years passed before two of us (Duncan and Thompson) devised an explanation for these strange objects, and only in 1998 did one of us (Kouveliotou) and her team find remains of a star that exploded 5,000 years ago. Unless this overlap was pure coincidence, it put the source 1,000 times as far away as theorists had thought—and thus made it a million times brighter than the Eddington limit. In 0.2 second the March 1979 event released as much energy as the sun radiates in roughly 10,000 years, and it concentrated that energy in gamma rays rather than spreading it across the electromagnetic spectrum.²

About 26 magnetars are known (see here).

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar

2 http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/sciam.pdf

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Wed, 15 May 2013 21:21:26 +0900

mychippedcup: THAT FRIEND THAT TURNS EVERY SINGLE THING YOU SAY INTO A SEXUAL INNUENDO #i am that...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:17:16 +0900

mychippedcup:

THAT FRIEND THAT TURNS EVERY SINGLE THING YOU SAY INTO A SEXUAL INNUENDO

#i am that friend