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We're all just stories

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Harry Potter. Doctor Who. Sherlock. Merlin. One Direction. The Hunger Games. Marvel. Adventure Time. Disney. Vampire Diaries. Mortal Instruments. Teen Wolf. Legend of Korra. Star Wars. HTGAWM. Hannibal. Georgia, 25 xx I follow back on my personal :)
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suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomena of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008

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The world's longest-running lab experiment

The Pitch Drop Experiment

The experiment demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar that is the world's thickest known fluid and was once used for waterproofing boats.

Thomas Parnell, UQ's first Professor of Physics, created the experiment in 1927 to illustrate that everyday materials can exhibit quite surprising properties.

At room temperature pitch feels solid - even brittle - and can easily be shattered with a hammer. But, in fact, at room temperature the substance - which is 100 billion times more viscous than water - is actually fluid.

In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. He allowed the pitch to cool and settle for three years, and then in 1930 he cut the funnel's stem.

Since then, the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that it took eight years for the first drop to fall, and more than 40 years for another five to follow.

Now, 87 years after the funnel was cut, only nine drops have fallen - the last drop fell in April 2014 and we expect the next one to fall sometime in the 2020s.

The experiment was set up as a demonstration and is not kept under special environmental conditions - it's kept in a display cabinet - so the rate of flow of the pitch varies with seasonal changes in temperature.

The late Professor John Mainstone became the experiment's second custodian in 1961. He looked after the experiment for 52 years but, like his predecessor Professor Parnell, he passed away before seeing a drop fall.

In the 86 years that the pitch has been dripping, various glitches have prevented anyone from seeing a drop fall.

AKFJEKJD my god

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So at work there is a soda delivery guy who comes in almost everyday to restock and though we’ve barely said a word to each other, we definitely Know Of each other. Well this morning I finally got a shift where I could sleep in but my dad was like Hey the cable guy is coming at 7 to replace the cable boxes and I was like alright whatever I’ll just sleep in but forgot there was a cable box in my room. So it’s 7 in the morning I vaguely hear my dad let the cable guy into my room to just swap the box and I wake up to see??? Soda Delivery Guy???? in my room???? Turns out his second job is working cable but wow here Soda Man is standing in my doorway and I’m wrapped up in a pink bunny blanket surrounded by stuffed animals like

@my-darling-boy I refuse to leave this in the tags, I'm sorry.

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CREATORHUB SUMMER EVENT 2021: Day 01 - COLOR

SILHOUETTES AND THE SKY

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson Harold and Maude (1971) dir. Hal Ashby The Rider (2018) dir. Chloe Zhao True Grit (2010) dir. Joel and Ethan Coen Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper Mr. Turner (2014) dir. Mike Leigh Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) dir. Steven Spielberg Noah (2014) dir. Darren Aronofsky Sicario (2015) dir. Denis Villeneuve Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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