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One of the kids I tutor drew this for his homework It's supposed to be Garfield

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I am in love with this retro-style poster for David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. The film opened in select theaters this past weekend to a great response, and it will be expanding into more theaters on Friday.

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top o’ the macklemornin’ to ya

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Girls&WomenToKnow: The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson 

Dr Jackson is the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological research university in the United States. A theoretical physicist, inventor,as-well as the highest paid college president in the country!! Dr. Jackson has had a distinguished career that includes senior leadership positions in academia, government, industry, and research. Jackson has been a trailblazer throughout her career, including as the first African-American woman to lead a top-ranked research university.

Education: Dr Jackson holds an S.B in Physics  and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics–both from Massachusetts Institute of Technonlogy.

Awards/Recognition/Achievements: Aside from being the highest paid college president in the country!

Dr Jackson is the first African-American woman to earn a Doctorate at MIT.

The second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics

the first African-American woman to lead a top-ranked research university.

Dr. Jackson has been awarded 52 honorary doctoral degrees.

Dr. Jackson was one of four honorees inducted in 2014 into the U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame. 

 In 2014, Dr. Jackson also was inducted into the Tech Valley Business Hall of Fame.

In 2010, Dr. Jackson was honored by Black Enterprise Magazine with its Women of Power Legacy Award.

Dr. Jackson also received the 2009 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse Issues Magazine.

“top 50 women in science” by Discover Magazine

ESSENCE Magazine book 50 of The Most Inspiring African-Americans.

In 2000, Dr. Jackson was awarded the Golden Torch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Academia by the National Society of Black Engineers

In 2013, the board of trustees of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (NJIHoF) bestowed the prestigious NJIHoF Trustees Award upon Dr. Jackson. The award is given to “someone who truly values and stimulates the inventive and innovative processes, who strives to ensure that all Americans, including students, are inspired and prepared to meet many of the challenges of tomorrow, and whose actions over many years have demonstrated that commitment.”

Dr. Jackson received the inaugural America Competes Award for Public Service in 2012, given by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness to “a leader who has worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life in America and abroad, through public service and private sector outreach, and to those who show an extraordinary commitment to excellence and the American spirit.”

In 2011, the American Association for the Advancement of Science honored Dr. Jackson with its prestigious Philip Hauge Abelson Award. This award is given annually to a public servant who has made sustained exceptional contributions to the advancement of science, or to a scientist whose career has been distinguished both for scientific achievement and for other notable services to the scientific community. 

In 2009, she received the Bouchet Leadership Award Medal from the Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a national award given to leaders in academia who are outstanding in their fields of study and have played an important role in diversifying higher education.

-Pierre

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With one tweet, ESPN completely wrote women out of NCAA history 

We need Sportscenter to be better than this.

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My middle schoolers threw me a fucking surprise party for my birthday yesterday Not pictured: two chocolate cakes, giant happy birthday banner, balloons For a bunch of sassy 13-14 year olds they are the absolute greatest

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It has legs!

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Dwayne The Rock Johnson stars in Disney’s Bambi

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If the worst you can find on someone are some juvenile eye-roll tweets from 2011 then what the fuck is your point? Kind of over this whole lets-comb-through-someone's-entire-social-media-cache-so-we-can-find-a-not-cool-thing-they-said-literally-years-ago-and-then-use-it-to-make-sweeping-judgements-about-their-character. I know some real shitty folks who have probably said a nice thing on Twitter sometime in the past half decade. It don't make 'em good people.

Thanks to these tweets (and more), it took just 24 hours for the Trevor Noah backlash to hit. As you can see above, Noah tweeted some jokes over the past four years, focused on women and Jewish people, that are being called offensive by some and being defended as comedy by others. So which is it — and does he still deserve The Daily Show?

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dad finds out about the big news….

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You tell her Cher!!!!!!

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Spooky Chandelier Shadows

A beautiful light sculpture/chandelier, Forms in Nature, that transforms its surrounding space into a spooky forest of shadows. Artwork designed by Hilden & Diaz.