Quote of the Day

‎"You have to go through life reminding yourself how incredibly valuable and important and terrific you are. Then you will never have a question about relationships again. There will be so many people wanting to be in your life." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Wine

Too much wine last night = crabby this morning, sleepy all day and headache approaching. Should have passed on that last glass. Womp.

Smithsonian Photo Contest Finalists

Here are a few of my favorites from the Smithsonian Photo Contest.

Anthropocene

Welcome to the Anthropocene. It’s a new geological epoch, one where the planet is shaped less by natural forces then by the combined activity, aspirations—and emissions—of more than 7 billion human beings:

For a species that has been around for less than 1% of the earth’s 4.5 billion-year history, Homo sapiens have certainly put its stamp on the place. Humans have had a direct impact on more than three-quarters of the ice-free land on earth. Almost 90% of the world’s plant activity now takes place in ecosystems where people play a significant role. We’ve stripped the original forests from much of North America and Europe and helped push tens of thousands of species into extinction. Even in the vast oceans, among the few areas of the planet uninhabited by humans, our presence has been felt thanks to overfishing and marine pollution. Through artificial fertilizers–which have dramatically increased food production and, with it, human population–we’ve transformed huge amounts of nitrogen from an inert gas in our atmosphere into an active ingredient in our soil, the runoff from which has created massive aquatic dead zones in coastal areas. And all the CO2 that the 7 billion-plus humans on earth emit is rapidly changing the climate–and altering the very nature of the planet.

Human activity now shapes the earth more than any other independent geologic or climatic factor. Our impact on the planet’s surface and atmosphere has become so powerful that scientists are considering changing the way we measure geologic time. Right now we’re officially living in the Holocene epoch, a particularly pleasant period that started when the last ice age ended 12,000 years ago. But some scientists argue that we’ve broken into a new epoch that they call the Anthropocene: the age of man. “Human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth is already an undeniable reality,” writes Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Prize–winning atmospheric chemist who first popularized the term Anthropocene. “It’s no longer us against ‘Nature.’ Instead, it’s we who decide what nature is and what it will be.”

Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/03/07/anthropocene-why-you-should-get-used-to-the-age-of-man-and-woman/#ixzz1oYSRVyYQ

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Yep.

Haught/Naught

Things I like:

(HAUGHT)

Recycling
Cheese, cheese, all kinds of cheese, give me cheese, I want some cheese, extra cheese
DVR + digital cable
Green tea
A Prairie Home Companion
Watching people do drugs on TV
Tight jeans + boots
Cookies
Dogs
Laugh till you cry
Cats
Scary, ghosty stuff
Forensic science
Garrison Keillor
Full moons
"We are Farmer's, bum da bum bum bum bum bum."
Clean hands & fingernails
Organization
Lauren Mele
Striped shirts
History
Morgan Freeman


Things I do not like:

(NAUGHT):

Dirty hands & fingernails
Negativity
Sand
Feet
Glitter
Most Republicans
Meat
Global Warming
Complainers
Lady Gaga's creepy fingernails
Spiders
Heights
Fingernails
People that don't hold the door for you
Toenails

Meat is Gross

Here's a great article on why meat is gross and why it's a brilliant idea to go vegetarian!

Why Go Veg? Learn About Becoming a Vegetarian

Also, chew on this:

•In 1961, the “Journal of the American Medical Association” reported that a vegetarian diet could prevent 90-97% of heart diseases. •Studies reveal 59% less cancer among people who eat small amounts of meat, compared to average meat-eaters. (Imagine how much better those figures would be when compared to vegetarians.) •Scotland has the highest rate of bowel cancer in the world and they eat 20% more meat than the English. •The kidneys of the meat-eater must work three times harder than the kidneys of the vegetarian. •Although meat needs to pass through the digestive tract quickly, it takes four times longer than grains or vegetables. •During World War I, Norway and Denmark could not get meat. The death rate dropped 17% and then returned to normal when they returned to their meat diets. The American National Institute of Health, in a study of 50,000 vegetarians, found that they live longer, have far less heart disease, and a much lower cancer rate compared to meat-eaters.

Just in case you needed a reminder.