call me butter 'cause i'm on a roll

Paint me like one of your French girls.

SBS world news presenter Lee Lin Chin made her last broadcast today and watching this little tribute to her live on tv was kind of incredible

an Icon, i hope she has fun with whatever’s next for her!

sollen = to be supposed to, to be intended to

der Bruch = crack, fracture

die Stelle = place, position, spot, site, location, point, …

(= a tool that causes a predetermined breaking point in the shell of an egg)

can you imagine to analyze the morphology of this word??? This was our first example for the morphologic analysis in a lesson called “introductory course of linguistics”

die Schale = shell

die Eierschale = egg shell

sollen = to be supposed to

der Bruch = crack

die Stelle = site, place, position, spot

der Verursacher = noun derived from the word

verursachen = to cause, related to:

die Ursache = cause

der Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher = …

bruce: because i accidentally sent you a nude?

Please, enjoy this smattering of beauty and wonder.

met his wife while playing a drag queen

spent the whole “Clash of the Titans” clusterfuck trolling Sam Worthington

gives zero fucks about society’s expectation of what famous actors should behave like

can wear the shit out of a suit, but prefers sportswear

knows he is made of cheekbones. accepts it. uses it to his advantage

went into dancing to score with dancers, stayed with it, went into acting after; two zero-guarantee careers right here and he made them work

is always, always nice to fans. 

ships hannigram harder than Bryan Fuller.

is so fucking talented. seriously. SO fucking talented. he’s a fucking national treasure in Denmark.

has never seen a Star Wars movie and didn’t even realize how big being in one would be.

also probably had no idea how big a Marvel movie would be.

still went with doing both because he got really well paid got to do air kung-fu and shit.

joined one of the most highly anticipated video games ever without understanding anything about the plot and/or video games. 

went salsa dancing with his Hannibal co-stars, director, and showrunner, despite saying he doesn’t dance in public anymore.

did a Con and got drunk with a bunch of furries.

also got onstage with a screamo band (during the same Con?) and shot toilet paper at the pit.

wears every flower crown he’s ever been given. it’s like a thing. sometimes wears two at the same time.

me: 

i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults

ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis

or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation

but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep

our society places almost zero value on sleep

on enough sleep

on uninterrupted sleep

on regular, predictable, cycling sleep

- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep. 

By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for. 

Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.

- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.

If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.

- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)

- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.

After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.

- According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”

- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.

Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.