Historicality
Because I like dead people better than live ones.
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I am so excited to lose on hard questions. (Ugh, I should be studying instead of reading goddamned tumblr.)
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Does It Matter Where You Go to College?
Meet Ben. He’s a high school senior from a middle class family in Massachusettes who is choosing where to attend college next year. He’s down to two schools: prestigious Boston College, or the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his state’s top public campus. Even with the generous financial aid package from BC, he would still graduate with a big mound of loans. UMass, meanwhile, would be more than $15,000 a year cheaper.
Which should Ben pick? Prestige or price?
With the cost of higher education climbing every year, and student debt surpassing $1 trillion, more and more young people will have to decide whether to make that trade-off. It begs the question: Does it really pay to go to an elite university, financially speaking? Researchers have been investigating this issue since at least the 1980s. And their findings tend to show that when it comes to future earnings, where you go to college counts.
Hm, interesting (if not altogether unexpected) stuff.
(Also take a look at the comments, which are full of anecdotal evidence and different perspectives, most of which seem to agree with the article.)
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‘Useless Poisons’
I had sampled in disgust the vapidities of roses,
Heliotropes, lilies, violets, poppies.
These were the dark flowers that one waters with tears.
These were the flowers of mourning that I’d gathered back then.
Slashed leaves of whitening Absinthe,
Umbels of Hemlock in the shadows of old walls,
Tongues of Henbane with sword-shaped filaments,
Apples of mandrake, stars of the dark places,
Night Hellebore that reddens the hills,
Aconites of gold, green golds, yellow golds, vermilion golds,
Datura, its fruit armed with javelins
Cradling in its hollow orb a nest of heavy slumbers,
White petals tipped with black points, Belladonna,
Flowers of mourning, flowers of death, embalming poisons,
You formed the bouquet with which I garlanded my Madonna,
You that satiate the heart and murder reason.
I had hoped to subjugate her when she seemed to be dying,
Thus had I hoped that she not be yet more jealous of you.
But the Madonna was stronger than even your poisons.
She laughed, showing her teeth as wolves would do;
She drowned her face at the bottom of your calices,
Drank in deep breaths your overflowing death,
And her mouth so pink, with biting delights,
Was pinker still when she bit into you.Jean Richepin, Caresses, 1882.
[Traduction Anglaise: Raymond E. André III, 2010]
[This English translation dedicated to Mlle. Mel Nerell]It rhymes in the original French, but I’m assuming that everyone reading this is just as uncultured and foreign-language illiterate as I am.
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Photo reblogged from Capricious Arsenic Delight
Circe Invidiosa (Circe abounding in envy) - John William Waterhouse
I love all Waterhouses, but the power and the focus in her eyes make this painting one of his best works.
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Photo reblogged from The New Yorker
Art Spiegelman visited Maurice Sendak in 1993 and drew the experience. We’ve unlocked the piece here: http://nyr.kr/JdQ2QS
“Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!”
We’ll all miss you, Mr. Sendak.
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Photoset reblogged from Bitches' Guide To Etiquette
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Responds to a Question about the NJ Marriage Equality Referendum
Scientific Fact: Cory Booker is secretly a caped superhero
Cory Booker, please please please leap through the window of the governor’s office and just plop yourself into Chris Christie’s seat. We need a superhero like you.
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Link reblogged from the scarlet woman
Click this :http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia
Read this : http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/04/move-over-leftists-real-feminists-reject-subsidies/#ixzz1u37n2Ub7
The Obama campaign released a new ad on Thursday that should be offensive to all of the women…
Reblogging for thescarletwoman’s commentary, which says everything that needs to be said on this particular issue.
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Photo reblogged from Pink Propaganda
British Library, Harley 4425, f. 140 ‘Nature forging a baby’. Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose. Bruges, c.1490-c.1500.
Are those the finished babies on the ground or the rejects?
I am convinced the English have a thing for morbid art.
Holy shit what?
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The Best of Jesse Eisenberg’s interview - TSN era
I fucking love you. MARRY ME PLEASE (BUT NOT LIKE ACTUALLY BECAUSE THAT WOULD ALARM MY PARENTS).
