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Any set of letters and specific categories cannot describe the fluidity of a human’s sexuality over time.

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The trouble with labels like LGBT

Maya Angelou put it best in her fantastic 1973 conversation with Bill Moyers, considering the laziness of stereotypes:

All you have to do is put a label on somebody. And then you don’t have to deal with the physical fact. You don’t have to wonder if they are waiting for the Easter bunny or love Christmas, or, you know, love their parents and hate small kids and are fearful of dogs. If you say, oh, that’s a junkie, that’s a nigger, that’s a kike, that’s a Jew, that’s a honkie, that’s a — you just — that’s the end of it.

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plant-a-day:

Photos courtesy of Rotary Botanical Gardens, Flowergardengirl, Rob’s Plants, and Mark Dwyer.

Capsicum annuum ‘Black Pearl’ aka Ornamental Pepper. The species itself is native to southern North American and northern South America. The peppers ripen from black/purple to red. The peppers are edible but, according to Dave’s Garden, they are 30,000+ Scoville units hot. Other peppers of comparable Scoville unit scores are Cayenne pepper and Tabasco pepper.

Yes, this plant isn’t technically black.

Reminds me of a really brightly colored plant, the Pollia condensata

headlikeanorange: A Brazilian pygmy gecko. This tiny lizard is so light and its skin so water repellent that it can stand on water. (Life - BBC)

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A Brazilian pygmy gecko. This tiny lizard is so light and its skin so water repellent that it can stand on water. (Life - BBC)

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whitehouse: aotus: Founders Online This afternoon, the National Archives launched Founders Online—a tool for seamless searching across the Papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton.   Through Founders Online you can now trace the shaping of the nation, the extraordinary clash of ideas, the debates and discussions carried out through drafts and final versions of public documents as well as the evolving thoughts and principles shared in personal correspondence, diaries, and journals. This beta version of Founders Online was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and contains over 119,000 documents. New documents will be added to the site on a continual basis. An incredible new resource from the National Archives (with 42 mentions of “Tumbl[e]r” all before 1836!). Check it out.

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aotus:

Founders Online

This afternoon, the National Archives launched Founders Online—a tool for seamless searching across the Papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton.  

Through Founders Online you can now trace the shaping of the nation, the extraordinary clash of ideas, the debates and discussions carried out through drafts and final versions of public documents as well as the evolving thoughts and principles shared in personal correspondence, diaries, and journals. This beta version of Founders Online was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and contains over 119,000 documents. New documents will be added to the site on a continual basis.

An incredible new resource from the National Archives (with 42 mentions of “Tumbl[e]r” all before 1836!). Check it out.

mapsontheweb: Grizzly Bear “subspecies” in California Early 20th Century

mapsontheweb:

Grizzly Bear “subspecies” in California Early 20th Century

theolduvaigorge:

Stone artifacts unearthed from the early Paleolithic site of Danjiangkou reservoir area, China

“Danjiangkou reservoir is located in the northwest of Hubei Province and southwest of Henan Province at the headwaters area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. In 1994 and 2004, Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted two surveys around the margin of the Danjiangkou reservoir that will later be submerged upon completing a new section of the dam, and found 91 paleolithic open-air sites, distributed upon different terraces along the Hanshui River and its tributary Danjiang River. In April and May 2009, researchers carried out an excavation in the Guochachang II site which is located on the left bank of Hanshui River’s third terrace. The excavation exposed an area of 500 m2 and uncovered 132 stone artifacts in situ as reported in the latest issue of Acta Anthropologica Sinica 2013 (2).

The Danjiangkou reservoir area is a pivotal region for  and cultural communication between south and north China. The discovery of hominid fossils, such as Xichuan Man, Yunyang Man, Meipu Man, Yunxian Man, and abundant Paleolithic sites in this area highlight its significant position in the  and Paleolithic archaeology of China.

The excavated lithic assemblage in the Guochachang II site includes hammerstones (9), cores (14), flakes (69), chunks (18), and stone tools (22).  include scrapers (13), choppers (5), picks (1), and handaxes (3).

The typology and technological analysis of these  reveals that lithic raw materials were locally available from ancient river gravels. Four kinds of raw materials were utilized: quartz, siliceous limestone, tuff and sandstone. Quartz is dominant for hammerstones, cores, flakes and chunks. Scarpers were predominantly made on quartz, but the heavy-duty tools mainly employed siliceous limestone and tuff” (read more).

(Source: PhysOrg)

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