si·nu·soi·dal adj \ˌsīn-yə-ˈsȯi-dəl, ˌsī-nə-\
: of, relating to, shaped like, or varying according to a sine curve or sine wave
— si·nu·soi·dal·ly adverb
(Source: thecalmingblog)
Reblogged from twoheaded-girl/Originally from thecalmingblog
6 days ago on May 15, 2013 at 10:21pm
20 Percent of Anorexics Are Men: GQ ›
As recently as a decade ago, clinicians believed that only 5 percent of anorexics were male. Current estimates suggest it’s closer to 20 percent and rising fast: More men are getting ill, and more are being diagnosed. (One well-regarded Canadian study puts the number at 30 percent.) It’s unclear why, but certainly twenty years of lean, muscular male physiques in advertising, movies, sports, and of course, magazines like GQ—from Marky Mark to Brad Pitt to David Beckham—have changed the way both men and women regard the male body. And thanks to the web, those images are easy to seek out and collect. For American men, the chiseled six-pack has become the fetishized equivalent of bigger breasts. Like all fetish objects, it stands for something deeply desired: social acceptance, the love of a parent or partner, happiness.
But many afflicted men feel too stigmatized to go to a doctor—and many doctors don’t recognize the early, ambiguous symptoms. “It is not what a primary-care physician will consider at first glance,” says Mark Warren, founder of the Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders. “Often it won’t be what they consider at fourth or fifth glance.”
6 days ago on May 15, 2013 at 10:05pm
The Takeaway: Don’t let critics destroy a great idea.
The three women behind the THINX, a fashionable underwear line designed for a woman’s menstrual cycle, wanted to launch an untested idea in a field dominated by corporate giants like Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, and Victoria’s Secret.
After a few years of perseverance and research, THINX products are beginning to hit store shelves, and early sales have already eclipsed this year’s projections.
Reblogged from npr/Originally from fastcompany
1 week ago on May 15, 2013 at 02:05pm
since my entire family shares an amazon account and netflix the suggestions are always really weird
1 week ago on May 15, 2013 at 12:24pm
Living Wall Art by Tiffany Drage
Reblogged from iam-veryfar/Originally from moralnihilism
1 week ago on May 15, 2013 at 12:37am
Kurt Braunohler raised $6,000 on Kickstarter to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things in the sky.”Perfect.
New frontiers of skywriting right here.
(Source: kurtbraunohler)
Reblogged from motherjones/Originally from kurtbraunohler
1 week ago on May 15, 2013 at 12:33am
Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I WonderMy eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself a new
(via architectureland)
Reblogged from iam-veryfar/Originally from architectureland
1 week ago on May 14, 2013 at 12:52pm
ALL of this. Encourage people to try new words, to mess them up, to experiment with vocabulary, to learn complicated adjectives and verbs and nouns, because words are fun.
Also, don’t be a jerk.
AMEN SISTAH. PREACh
So politely tell them they mispronounced a word so they don’t humiliate themselves in public.
Reblogged from 100footfaces/Originally from gruntledandhinged
1 week ago on May 14, 2013 at 12:51am
