” I’m very clumsy so I hope I don’t fall over! I think this relay gives a sense of national focus and lots of people are turning up. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity.”
YES! THE DOCTOR CARIES THE FLAME OF THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT!
‘Doctor Who’ fans hijack Boulder road sign — ‘Warning Daleks Ahead’
“Doctor Who” is coming back to the airwaves this fall, but some fans of the show couldn’t wait that long to get their fix. Some of them hijacked a road sign in Boulder, Colorado and changed it to read something that Whovians fear (and love). It says “Warning Daleks Ahead.”
Reason #825 why Colorado is the best.
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I’m the inarticulate man that tries. I’m a pretty good example of true human frailty. I don’t really have all the answers, I have very few of the answers. But for some reason, somehow, I make it.
Happy birthday James Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997)
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Great 80’s jam, or GREATEST 80’s jam?!
“Same-sex couples should be able to get married.”—President Obama
Tom Hiddleston wears Huntsman Prince of Wales, Hilditch & Key, Byrne & Burge and Church’s. Michelle Dockery wears Danielle Scutt, Antonio Berardi, Cornelia James and Charlotte Olympia Avalon.
Photographer Jonathan de Villiers channeled a time-traveler’s perspective on London for TIME Style and Design, which relaunched in March. Revisit the photos in honor ofThe Avengers, in which Tom Hiddleston plays Loki. See more here.
The more deeply we are cast under a story’s spell, the more potent its influence. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.
But perhaps the most impressive finding is just how fiction shapes us: mainly for the better, not for the worse. Fiction enhances our ability to understand other people; it promotes a deep morality that cuts across religious and political creeds. More peculiarly, fiction’s happy endings seem to warp our sense of reality. They make us believe in a lie: that the world is more just than it actually is. But believing that lie has important effects for society — and it may even help explain why humans tell stories in the first place.
Jonathan Gottschall, author of the excellent The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, on why fiction is good for you.
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Remember when Springsteen played this at his concert I went to? Remember how I danced just like this at the concert he was playing this FREAKING SONG AT?! Man, what a dream of my life…
He’s The Boss. Forever.
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