Glitter & Stardust

arnaia: Carl Sagan on humans (from The Sagan Series) [x]

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:14:53 -0400

Carl Sagan on humans (from The Sagan Series) [x]

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:10:29 -0400

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children.

The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out.

One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format — this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd.

You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist.

"Reagan was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time: in the White House during his own..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:59 -0400

“Reagan was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time: in the White House during his own administration.”

- Jon Stewart (via seriouslyamerica)

thedramaticsneeze: hoshigumayuugi: i actually like being up early i just don’t like getting up...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:02:41 -0400

thedramaticsneeze:

hoshigumayuugi:

i actually like being up early i just don’t like getting up early

YOU PUT THIS IN WORDS

errolivio: moronicalake: moriarty: BUT IT’S ”GRAPHIC” NOT...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:01:07 -0400

errolivio:

moronicalake:

moriarty:

BUT IT’S ”GRAPHIC”

NOT ”JRAPHIC”

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Claude Monet » Water Lilies

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:43:07 -0400

Claude Monet » Water Lilies

"Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:42:49 -0400

““Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked at sexualised images of women wearing bikinis. She found that the part of their brains that became activated was pre-motor - areas that usually light up when people anticipate using tools. The men were reacting to the images as if the women were objects they were going to act on. Particularly shocking was the discovery that the participants who scored highest on tests of hostile sexism were those most likely to deactivate the part of the brain that considers other people’s intentions (the medial prefrontal cortex) while looking at the pictures. These men were responding to images of the women as if they were non-human.””

- The Equality Illusion (via lesilencieux)

scary.

(via fuckyeahfeminists)

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“I can’t live without you, I can’t live without you, baby”

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:16 -0400

“I can’t live without you, I can’t live without you, baby”

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London 1926 (x)

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London 1926 (x)

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nataliejayne: ……aaawwwkkkwwaaaarrrdddd……

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:22:17 -0400

nataliejayne:

……aaawwwkkkwwaaaarrrdddd……

justhistorythings: Submitted by theinexhaustiblecharm

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:29 -0400

justhistorythings:

Submitted by theinexhaustiblecharm

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