About 25 years ago, a slowly-rising tide claimed the Argentine town of Epecuen, once a lakeside village that saw tens of thousands of tourists each year.
Now, the water has receded, revealing a ghost town where walls tumbled over, cars rusted away and trees, still standing, were bleached by the sun and saltwater.
And Epecuen is, of course, a tourist attraction again.
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it scares me that you never know what someone is thinking or feeling towards you and everything that they say could be one massive lie
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“This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon calendar is made of brewable tea. Each day is made of fine pressed wafer thin tea leaves.”
Gallium
Gallium is a silvery metal with atomic number 31. It’s used in semiconductors and LEDs, but the cool thing about it is its melting point, which is only about 85 degrees Fahrenheit. If you hold a solid gallium crystal in your hand, your body heat will cause it to slowly melt into a silvery metallic puddle. Pour it into a dish, and it freezes back into a solid.
While you probably shouldn’t lick your fingers after playing with it, gallium isn’t toxic and won’t make you crazy like mercury does. And if you get tired of it, you can melt it onto glass and make yourself a mirror.
Price: $80
Someone get me this for my non-birthday.
THIS WAS IN A BOOK I READ IN SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS USED TO MOLD THEM INTO SPOONS AND THEN GIVE THEM TO OTHER PEOPLE WITH THEIR TEA AND THE SPOONS WOULD JUST MELT AND THE SCIENTISTS WOULD LAUGH AS THE PEOPLE GOT ALL FLUSTERED LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE FOUND IT AS FUNNY AS I DID
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“In a case in California where a teen girl’s gang rape was videotaped, the defense team called her “trash” and a slut who wanted to make a “porn” video. Never mind that she was unconscious. Never mind that she was raped with a pool cue, a lit cigarette, a can, and a Snapple bottle. Never mind that during the attack, passed out, she urinated on herself. At the end of the first trial, the cause was put on hold because of a hung jury. Now tell me that the slut-baiting doesn’t work. If you don’t fit into the “good girl” standard — or if people can convince others that you don’t — you’re in real trouble. If you’re a stripper, prepare to be disbelieved. If you’re a prostitute, forget it.”
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“Don’t worry about the bitches, that could be a good motto, because you come across people like that throughout your life.”
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
John Steinbeck
my cousin asked me what my favorite season was and i said “of what” and i just
it’s frightening how long it took me to figure out what was wrong with that response
me too omfg
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“We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him. The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.” The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. “So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.”
Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women. Andrew Sullivan.
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“People don’t listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.”
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