this is not a duet

Fred Hampton

Taken from a speech given on April 27, 1969.

(via disciplesofmalcolm)

Unalaq, what have you unleashed?

Some interesting things to notice:

Let’s start with that the spirit Tonraq angers looks vastly different than the angry spirits we encounter in the SWT. The one angered by the flooding of the forest have more definition, more detail. The ones we see in the SWT are less detailed, more shadowy. 

Secondly, if the spirits are angry that the spirit-portal is blocked, why are they trying to stop Korra from opening it? Shouldn’t they encourage/help her?

Now it gets really interesting: The markings on the totem pole? match the facial markings of the angry spirits, implying a connection between the statue and the angry spirits.

Further, the helix around the statue matches the ones Unalaq conjures. 

For me all of this begs the questions of whether that statue is benevolent, miss-used or evil and if those are actually spirits, or something else? 

And if Unalaq conjured/summoned those angry spirits, why does he want Korra to open the spirit-portal? 

And is thing going to get as debunked as my Energybending theory?

The raven is sometimes known as “the wolf-bird.” Ravens, like many other animals, scavenge at wolf kills, but there’s more to it than that. Both wolves and ravens have the ability to form social attachments and they seem to have evolved over many years to form these attachments with each other, to both species’ benefit. There are a couple of theories as to why wolves and ravens end up at the same carcasses. One is that because ravens can fly, they are better at finding carcasses than wolves are. But they can’t get to the food once they get there, because they can’t open up the carcass. So they’ll make a lot of noise, and then wolves will come and use their sharp teeth and strong jaws to make the food accessible not just to themselves, but also to the ravens. Ravens have also been observed circling a sick elk or moose and calling out, possibly alerting wolves to an easy kill. The other theory is that ravens respond to the howls of wolves preparing to hunt (and, for that matter, to human hunters shooting guns). They find out where the wolves are going and following. Both theories may be correct. Wolves and ravens also play. A raven will sneak up behind a wolf and yank its tail and the wolf will play back. Ravens sometimes respond to wolf howls with calls of their own, resulting in a concert of howls and calls. 

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?

I mean, can we just talk about how this parallels the actual education system?  Where they’re so concerned about teaching us things like logarithms and graphing that we don’t know shit about what’s actually out there in the adult world, like doing taxes or writing checks or anything?  I mean, “It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.”  School children are often under the impression that getting A’s in all their classes ensures a successful future, but really, it’s so ignorant because the real world isn’t just one big question-and-answer paper.  There is so much more to the world than being able to give back information like some kind of super-computer, and brainwashing children into thinking that theory is key is just going to lead to a bunch of children falling flat on their faces when they’re pushed into the adult world and feel as if everything new they try to do is wrong because it wasn’t taught to them step-by-step.  I just really love Harry’s line, “And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what’s out there?” because I feel as if sometimes we just learn things for the sake of knowing them, despite whether it is actually useful. Yes, school is important, and getting bad grades isn’t a good way to start your future, but it’s so much more than that, you see.

this sounds a lot like something Hermione would say

Did Humans Evolve in the Oceans at Some Point?

We human beings have some strange characteristics which set us aside from the other primates:

(via samsaranmusing:)

Humans are curious creatures, are they not?

So, this is a real scientific theory, but the merperson picture and the way they’ve worded it here is a bit misleading.

First of all, it’s called the Aquatic Ape Theory. It’s legit. All of these points are used to prove it.

But it is NOT a theory that we evolved in the ocean. That is not a theory that exists (to my knowledge). In the Aquatic Ape Theory, it’s theorized that humans evolved in a marshy or lake-like climate, specifically in an area called the Afar Triangle, where we still had some access to land (or we’d drown), but were forced to live in the water at least part of the time due to geography.

There’s lots of good books on the subject, and a bit more evidence for it than most of the other theories (or there was when I was a kid). But it has nothing to do with actual oceans.