January 2012
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky....”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via bookmania)
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than...”
– Anaïs Nin (via imfantasyparade)
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“In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or...”
– Alexander Pope
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creative-therapy:
Stevie Wonder - Isn’t She...
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Extra special beef biryani
Tender chunks of gently spiced beef in a fluffy saffron rice. If you like a bit more heat, don’t worry about deseeding both the chillies.
Ingredients
100ml/3½oz full-fat milk
1 heaped tsp saffron strands
1kg/2lbs 2oz braising steak, cut into bite-sized chunks
4 onions, peeled
4 garlic cloves, peeled
25g/1oz fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
2 fresh red...
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DARPA says, 'Let's get rid of antibiotics!' →
sciencecenter:
For the better part of a century, antibiotics have given doctors great powers to cure all sorts of bacterial infections. But due to bacteria’s nasty habit of evolving, along with widespread overuse of these drugs, disease-causing bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance at an alarming rate, making it much harder, and at times impossible, to wipe them out. DARPA, the military’s...
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“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like...”
– William W. Purkey
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“Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we...”
– Tom Perrotta (via quote-book)
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