atlasobscura:

All the secrets of human consciousness may be embedded somewhere in the squishy brains nestled in our skulls. This drive to find out what’s hidden in our mental anatomy has resulted in medical specimen collections of brains all over the world. The Wilder Brain Collection in Ithaca, New York, has around 70 brains; the Cushing Brain Collection in New Haven, Connecticut, has around 550. But this is nothing compared to the around 3,300 brains kept at the Brain Museum in Lima.

Curious Fact of the Week: Biggest Brain Collections

after we are drunk and fat lets all go to the brain museum

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Let’s all get drunk and fat

millionsmillions:

Presented Without Comment: the newly unveiled logo for the newly enacted College Football Playoff and the new poster for Lars von Trier’s latest film, Nymphomaniac.

millionsmillions:

Presented Without Comment: the newly unveiled logo for the newly enacted College Football Playoff and the new poster for Lars von Trier’s latest film, Nymphomaniac.

kdecember:

mynextguests:

 Pepper
Letterman, 1996

I just heard this in the car, I remember really loving it. 90’s. 

One of the best of the ’90s.  I probably saw this when it first aired.  I was probably either moping or writing bad poetry in a spiral bound notebook.

slaughterhouse90210:

“This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.”― Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts

slaughterhouse90210:

“This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts

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New poems up today!

therumpus:

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

PROPHANE!

therumpus:

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

PROPHANE!

h-ngm-n:

NOTES TO A YOUNG POET is a series that began in November 2012, inspired by Andrea Henchey’s poem of the same title, published in H_NGM_N #11. For the third round of the series we’ve asked contributors from the current issue to share their Notes.

This week features Russ Woods, who has…

This is really quite beautiful.

fantagraphics:

mkupperman:

Are comics serious literature?

A Thrizzle classic by Michael Kupperman.

fantagraphics:

mkupperman:

Are comics serious literature?

A Thrizzle classic by Michael Kupperman.