January 2011
44 posts
“the men were given skin injections containing their own semen, at first in an...”
– Semen allergy suspected in rare post-orgasm illness (via outofcontextscience)
Puffer Jacket Fetish: WHY →
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge...
“I have noticed that even people who think everything is predestined and that we...”
– Stephen Hawking (via nickelcobalt) This is one of my philosophical pet peeves. If everything is predestined, then everything we do is what makes it happen, whatever it may be.
“Most of these hungry monsters are quiet and fairly inconspicuous”
– Collisions Cleared as Cause of Galactic Infernos (via outofcontextscience)
