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phiLOLZophy: Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger

philolzophy:

Everyone’s life is hard. This seems obvious but for a long, long time I thought I was the only one. I thought the other girls in high school were losing their virginity on the the 50 yard line to the quarterback. I lost my virginity while I was blacked out, there was nothing special or romantic…

life: To this day, skulls are still the single most powerful emblem and reminder of our own mortality. The ways in which the skull has been depicted, meanwhile — across decades, and across cultures — are as varied as the minds that inhabit what that charming old blowhard Rod Serling once called our “hidden auditorium.” Pictured: Director Edward R. Dye oversees skull-cracking experiments at Cornell in the late 1940s, in which researchers used imitation skulls to determine how to redesign aircraft interiors in order to reduce the large numbers of fatalities resulting from head injuries during crashes. (see more — Skulls Everywhere)

life:

To this day, skulls are still the single most powerful emblem and reminder of our own mortality. The ways in which the skull has been depicted, meanwhile — across decades, and across cultures — are as varied as the minds that inhabit what that charming old blowhard Rod Serling once called our “hidden auditorium.”

Pictured: Director Edward R. Dye oversees skull-cracking experiments at Cornell in the late 1940s, in which researchers used imitation skulls to determine how to redesign aircraft interiors in order to reduce the large numbers of fatalities resulting from head injuries during crashes.

(see more — Skulls Everywhere)