Sunday, March 6, 2016

Community Post: The 17 Stages Of A Breakup






1. So you got dumped.



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2. And now you’re feeling a little down on yourself.







3. Maybe you just want to spend some time alone.



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4. But your friends keep trying to cheer you up with gestures and loud noises.



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5. They want you to “talk about it.”







6. You’ll give in eventually. It won’t be pretty.



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7. They’ll smother you with pep talks about self worth and independence.









































 


Please just make it stop.





Worst of all, they’ll make you put on pants.



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It’s hard. I know.





8. You finally agree to go out, but only because you’ve stopped eating and lost five pounds.







9. It’s sort of fun at first.



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But the talent is pretty low.







10. So you try and focus on what’s important.



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11. After a few nights out, things take a turn for the worse.







12. Maybe online dating is the way to go. It’s not all creeps these days, right?








13. Don’t worry. Soon you’ll find an online hottie who makes you want to email your heart.




Hey girl. Just running marathons and doing charity work.





14. And when you finally meet in person, you’ll realize you were meant to be all along.







15. You’ll kiss in the park. There will be a dog there, too.



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16. Oh, just kidding. You were watching “You’ve Got Mail” by yourself, and momentarily mistook yourself for Meg Ryan.



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17. But you know what? It’s okay. Because you finally have your relationship priorities straight.



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Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/lauramichelle/the-17-stages-of-a-breakup




Community Post: The 17 Stages Of A Breakup

After Seeing This, I Don"t Know Whether To Feel Small And Insignificant. Or Extremely Lucky.




A user on Reddit came up with a fantastic idea. They Photoshopped all of our solar system’s planets into the sky, appearing as if they were as far away from Earth as the Moon. The result is absolutely fascinating (and a little bit terrifying). This is what it would look like to live on an alien planet. Wow.




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Venus









Mars









Jupiter









Saturn









Neptune









Uranus








Too bad Pluto is missing out on all of this fun (R.I.P).


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Read more: http://viralnova.com/planets-sky/




After Seeing This, I Don"t Know Whether To Feel Small And Insignificant. Or Extremely Lucky.

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It’s TOTALLY Raining Teens…Eleven Years Later




The July 2014 issue of Vanity Fair features the up-and-already here Shailene Woodley, but in honor of #tbt, let’s remember the July 2003 Vanity Fair issue featuring “20 Pages of the Hottest Teen and Tween Stars” and catch up with them!

The Issue Introduced Us to Eight (9 if you count MK&A as two separate entities) Up and Coming Young Actresses


The Issue Introduced Us to Eight (9 if you count MK&A as two separate entities) Up and Coming Young Actresses

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1. Amanda Bynes 2003


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In 2003, Bynes was starring as the gregarious Daphne in What a Girl Wants. When asked, she noted that she owned 8 Juicy Couture outfits, her celeb crush was Orlando Bloom, and her catchphrase was, “no prob.”


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After having a rather public break down via twitter, Bynes entered rehab, but as of today, she has exited rehab and completed two quarters at the Orange Country Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. A source told E! News that she is loving school and, “If she was offered an acting job any time soon she may not take it because she’s so focused on school.”


2. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen 2003


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In 2003, MK&A had just released their newest movie The Challenge. While they both agreed Britney was better than Christina, Ashley states that her biggest pet peeve is finding hair in her food, while Mary-Kate’s is, “When people eat bananas and make that noise.”


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Having retired from their acting careers, attending NYU for a year, and beginning a budding fashion empire, most recently the Olsen twins have released two new fragrances to compliment their Elizabeth and James brand. You rarely see them in the news anymore, but they did recently endorse their fragrances during an appearance on the Ellen Show.


3. Mandy Moore 2003


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In 2003, Moore had just starred in How to Deal, but even at the time she was best known for her role as Jamie Sullivan in the Nicholas Sparks movie adaptation of A Walk to Remember. Moore told the mag that her first job was singing the national anthem at sporting events beginning at age 11 and her idol would have to be Bette Midler.


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Moore is now best known as voicing the Disney princess, Rapunzel, in Tangled. Most recently, she voices the title character in the TV show, Sheriff Callie’s Wild West, which you shouldn’t be surprised if you’ve never heard of because it is a, “kids’ western centered on a kitty-cat sheriff whose job is to ensure that the town of Nice and Friendly Corners remains the friendliest town in the West” (imdb.com).


4. Hilary Duff 2003


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In 2003, Duff was on fire! In that year alone, she starred in Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen, and none other than her reprisal role in The Lizzie McGuire Movie! Coincidentally, her favorite “guy’s guy,” David Beckham, was also who she considered her favorite “pretty boy.” That in addition to the fact that her idol was Princess Diana, I definitely have to question Hilary’s patriotism.


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After recently celebrating the one year mark of her son’s birth, Duff is starring in the new TV show, Younger, as well as voicing Wendy in Wings: Sky Force Heroes, but has been most recently brought back into conversation because of her return to music with her new music video for her single, “Chasing the Sun” which again has me asking my boss, “why can’t I bring my hamster to work?”


5. Alexis Bledel 2003


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In 2003, Bledel was best known for her on-going role as Rory Gilmore in Gilmore GIrls, but had also recently moved onto the big screen in the film Tuck Everlasting, which you all probably forgot you forgot about. A simple girl, she admits she owns no Juicy Couture outfits and the illusion of celebrities, “is completely gone,” so she does not have a celeb crush, but she does love Ewan McGregor and Jared Leto.


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Even after starring in both Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies, Bledel is still best known for her role in Gilmore Girls, and has filmed a few other movies that I’ve never heard of and had a reoccuring guest role on Mad Men where she met her now fiancé, Vincent Kartheiser. In other news, I just found out that Alexis is her middle name and her first name is actually Kimberly. So, that’s cool!


6. Evan Rachel Wood 2003


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In 2003, Wood was working on her breakout film, Thirteen, but I’ll always remember her as the violin player who had a crush on Simon from 7th Heaven in Little Secrets back in 2001. Being the rebel that she was, when given the choice of Britney or Christina, she chose Alanis [Morissette] and her favorite old TV show was Daria.


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Most recently, she starred in the film, Barefoot, but is better known for her role as the 500 year old vampire queen of Louisiana in True Blood. She is currently filming and in pre-production for three new movies to come out in 2015. She was in a relationship with Marilyn Manson for three years, which included an engagement, before marrying her ex, Jamie Bell, giving birth to a son in July 2013, and then separated from Bell after 19 months of marriage.


7. Raven


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In 2003, Raven had just starred as the cheetalicious diva, Galleria, in Disney’s The Cheetah Girls and had begun her adventure as the title character in That’s So Raven. Raven admitted that her favorite type of car was a Mercedes-Benz ML55 S.U.V. and her catchphrase was, “this is a serious situation,” which surprised me. I assumed it was, “OH! SNAP!”


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After trying to shake her image as “That’s So” Raven and starring in the ABC Family sitcom, State of Georgia, she is most notable as the voice of Iridessa in the Pixie Hollow series. Many rumors have gone around regarding her sexual orientation, to which Symoné wrote on Twitter in May 2012: “My sexual orientation is mine, and the person I’m dating’s to know. I’m not one for a public display of my life.” In August 2013, Raven-Symoné commented on legalizing same-sex marriage, “I was excited to hear today that more states legalized gay marriage. I, however am not currently getting married, but it is great to know I can now, should I wish to”.


8. Lindsay Lohan


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In 2003, before Lohan was known as a mean girl, she played Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter in the remake of the classic film, Freaky Friday. She told Vanity Fair that her first job was a commercial for Jell-O with Bill Cosby (classic) and while she loves ChapStick, she hates people who are fake. Four for you LiLo! You go LiLo!


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After a few run ins with the law as well as (allegedly) going under the knife, Lohan is doing much better this year. Creating an 8-part docuseries with the help of Oprah Winfrey and her new OWN Network, Lindsay aired strong and finished fine. She returned to the small screen (her debut being the Jell-O commercial) in an episode of 2 Broke Girls in which she played an indecisive bride. Lohan also has a few projects lined up for later this year and 2015.


Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/missjax/its-totally-raining-teenseleven-years-later-jei0




It’s TOTALLY Raining Teens…Eleven Years Later

Saturday, March 5, 2016

New Frog Species Discovered in New York City




For the first time since 1882, New York City has a new frog. Dubbed the Atlantic coast leopard frog, the new species was discovered six years ago in the marshes of Staten Island — hiding in plain sight not too far from the Statue of Liberty. Their impressive range extends beyond the Big Apple to include wetlands all along the Interstate 95 corridor from Connecticut to North Carolina. 


Technically, the frog was first noticed in the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area half a century ago, but these claims were dismissed. “Even though he was clearly on to something, the claim Carl Kauffeld made in his 1937 paper fell short,” says Rutgers University’s Jeremy Feinberg, who made the 2008 discovery. “We had the benefits of genetic testing and bioacoustic analysis that simply weren’t available to Kauffeld to prove that even though this frog might look like the two other leopard frogs in the area, it was actually a third and completely separate species,” he adds in a news release


Kauffeld died in 1974, and Feinberg and colleagues named the new frog Rana kauffeldi in his honor. The team made an initial announcement in a 2012 paper of an undocumented third frog separate from the northern and southern leopard frogs, R. pipiens and R. sphenocephala. Last week, the team completed their discovery in a PLOS ONE paper, providing the evidence needed to formally name the new frog, as well as descriptions of its distribution, ecology, and conservation status. 


They collected measurements from 283 specimens from four Rana species in the U.S. and Canada. They also analyzed their genetics and bioacoustics, which included the length of their mating calls to the numbers of pulses in a call. Based on these, they determined that they had a third species that was separate from the two frogs it was previously confused with. The southern leopard frog, for example, has a distinct “chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck, chuck” call. The new frog, Los Angeles Times explains, sounds more like this: “Chuck. (Pause) Chuck. (Pause) Chuck.” You can hear a male’s advertisement call here


They’re cryptically colored in mint-gray to light olive green, with medium-to-dark spots. They like expansive, open-canopied wetlands — though centuries of impact to these areas raise some conservation concerns. 


Over the last two years, with the help of biologists and frog enthusiasts throughout the east coast, the team confirmed that the range of the new frog spans eight states and several major cities along 780 kilometers (485 miles). Its narrow and largely coastal lowland distribution stretches from central Connecticut to northern New Jersey (based on genetic data) and south to North Carolina (based on bioacoustic data).


The last amphibian described from New York or New England was the Fowler’s toad in 1882, and this new frog is only the seventh amphibian described from New York. It just goes to show, new vertebrates can still be found in well-studied, densely populated, and urban places that are rarely associated with undocumented biodiversity.


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Read more: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-frog-species-was-discovered-new-york-city




New Frog Species Discovered in New York City

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