Couples who are deeply in love look at each other 75 percent of the time when talking, as opposed to the normal 30-60 percent of the time. During counseling, psychologists even use this scale to measure affection between couples.
fuckyeahfacts: (ivillage.com) Submitted by jannelle
C’était un rendez-vous (“It was a date”)
“On an August morning in 1978, the story goes, French director Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris.
The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes. The driver barrel-assed all the way from Porte Dauphine (on the city’s western edge, adjacent to the Bois de Bologne) to the Basilica Sacre Coeur in Montmartre.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 mph in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up several one-way streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.” (via Filmosophical Asides)
Best to watch the entire clip through.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert Anson Heinlein
5 month old Sofia eating her first peach.
People are far more likely to return a lost wallet if they find a baby picture inside it.
ohyeahfacts: Scottish researchers planted 240 “lost” wallets all over the city of Edinburgh. Each wallet had the same contents, aside from a picture in the clear plastic window. Eighty-eight percent of the wallets that featured a baby pic were returned, as opposed to 53 percent with a puppy, 48 percent with a family and 28 percent with a photo of an elderly couple.
From a purely economic standpoint, a picture of someone else’s baby works best. A real one is going to leave you feeling like you’re constantly losing money anyway.Scientists believe that people are evolutionary coded to feel empathy for babies, and that accounts for this discrepancy in return rates.
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Japanese people running wildly in slow-mo.
Girls, if boys say something that’s not funny, you don’t have to laugh.
— Amy Poehler (via jessicachu) (via rachellehruska)
He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotewhore)
