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If the Gilbert, Arizona, school board does decide to go ahead with a stealth plan to start ripping the pages out of science textbooks… I think we’ve got it covered. High school kids of Arizona, if they do steal the stuff out of your books, ArizonaHonorsBiology.com is where you can get it again. Arizona may be conservative, but Arizona, you are still part of the United States, and you can’t pretend some parts of biology don’t exist because they make you feel oogy. You can try, but you cannot get away with it.

Rachel Maddow expertly trolls Tea Partiers who want to censor Arizona sex ed  (via micdotcom) jacobyverger

SUPERLUNARY

[adjective]

1. belonging to a higher world; celestial.

2. situated above or beyond the moon.

Etymology: Latin super, “prefix for above, beyond, in addition, to an especially high degree” + lunary, from Latin lūnāris, “of the moon”, from lūna, “the moon”.

[ebineyland]

I will need to find another name to call my cat.

URINATOR 

[noun] 

one who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver. 

Etymology: from Latin urinari - to plunge under water, to dive.

[Elisabetta Trevisan]

I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) >> Filming Locations, part I dir. Joe Wright

jacobyverger ooooh!

Sir David Attenborough has contributed to natural history programming for 60 years. Sir David is presenting “Fabulous Frogs” on Nature on PBS on June 25. Let’s jump for joy! Here’s a clip: http://youtu.be/l3uO2lO9JDk 

"The boat was actually Plan C. The church was Plan B. And Plan A was marrying her a long, long time ago. Pretty much the day I met her."

"NIAGARA", OCTOBER 8, 2009