i’m sorry but there is no way you could have stopped me from standing on my chair and screeching like a banshee if i saw this live…
What
how
HOW
“ballet isn’t a sport”
The thing about this is, you can barely see their muscles straining from effort. The effort to keep each other and themselves balanced, definitely, but that guy’s hand is barely shaking. The amount of training and strength and balance to go into this is fucking insane.
Ballet is raw AF
Reblogging again because I had to look this up on YouTube and it’s honestly mindblowing. She actually does en pointe on his head at some point 😱
me: i like this thing! my brain: excellent, it’s your reason to live now. you won’t be able to think about anything else for a few days, weeks or even months. talking about virtually anything else will be a nightmare, but so will be talking about The Thing, because no one shares your level of enthusiasm. have fun!
1) Extreme poverty is falling.
35.9 percent in 1990 to only 10 percent in 2015
…
it estimates that the 2018 rate will be about 8.6 percent.
2) Child mortality is falling.
The global under-five mortality rate fell from 93 per 1,000 [1990] to 39 to
1,000 [2017], meaning it fell by over 58 percent. We don’t have data for 2018
yet, but given the change just between 2015 and 2017, it’s likely there
was a further decline.
3) We’re getting better at preventing preventable diseases.
A new technology that could be able to radically control or outright eliminate malaria — gene drive mosquitos — are almost ready
and foundations like Gates and Open Philanthropy Project are devoting huge sums to fund its development and testing.
4) Clean energy is getting cheaper.
Solar and wind are now cheaper per megawatt hour than gas or oil, though better batteries are needed if the two are to become primary sources of energy.
5) Nepal’s endangered tiger population has doubled.
In 2009, there were only 120 wild Bengal tigers in Nepal, but that
figure has almost doubled since then. The country’s government has
pledged to double numbers by 2022, and is on track to meet that target.
6) We’re interstellar once again.
In December 2018, Voyager 2 became the second space craft to leave the heliosphere and it’s still in good shape.
7) The Nobel prize for physics went to a woman for the first time in 55 years.
Only three women have ever won the Nobel prize for physics. Donna Strickland from Canada’s
University of Waterloo was awarded a share of the prize for her work on
using powerful lasers to study tiny particles.
8) Hospitals have created their own drug company to fight back against high costs.
A new company Civica Rx, was announced in January 2018 and a third of
the country’s [USA] hospitals have either committed to participate or
expressed interest. The company CEO Martin Van Trieste is not
taking a salary.
9) There are more scientists in politics
[USA].
There’s one new senator, and eight new members of Congress with a STEM
background, including computer programmers, engineers, and an
oceanographer.
10) Fewer war deaths. The proportion of people killed annually in wars is less than a quarter
of what it was in the 1980s, one-seventh of what it was in the early
1970s, one-eighteenth of what it was in the early 1950s, and 0.5% of
what it was during World War II.
11) Fewer weapons of mass destruction. The world’s nuclear stockpiles have been reduced by 85% since the Cold War.
12) Better crop yields. Between 1961 and 2009 the amount of land used to grow food increased by
12%, but the amount of food that was grown increased by 300%.
13) Increased literacy. The global literacy rate is currently 83%.
It’s estimated that by the end of the century this number will be close to 100%.
14) Access to clean water:
Between 1980 and today, global access to safe water sources has increased from 58% to 91%.
15) Protected nature reserves. In 1962, there were 9,214 protected nature reserves worldwide. Today, there are over 200,000.
16) Plastic bag use slashed [AUS].
After two of Australia’s biggest supermarket chains announced that they
would stop offering single-use plastic bags to their consumers, the
initiative has heavily contributed to an 80% drop in plastic bag
consumption across the nation.
17) Post-surgical spray gel to prevent cancer recurrence. A UCLA-led research team has developed a spray gel that is embedded with immune-boosting nanoparticles. The substance was successful half of the
time in awakening lab animals’ immune systems to stop the cancer from
recurring following tumor removal.
18) Norway bans palm oil biofuels that lead to deforestation.
The majority of the Norwegian parliament agreed to
ban their biofuel industry from buying palm oil and other dangerous
biofuels that are linked to deforestation and harmful environmental
practices.
19) Drastic decrease in child labor.
Since 2000, the number of children in child labor globally fell by 94 million, a drop of more than one-third.
20) Suicides down over one-third. Global suicide rates have dropped by 38% since 1994,
Remember a few years ago how some autistic kid (like 14 years old) was like “Link is mute like me!” and NTs were obsessed with ‘disproving’ their headcanon and using technical definitions of outdated terms and saying that he couldn’t have mutism and that the headcanons were just “SJW bullshit”
and now in the latest Zelda, we get it confirmed that Link does indeed have selective mutism due to trauma and anxiety
did U GUYS KNOW, that the way stores get the balloons off of the ceiling is with ANOTHER balloon, w tape on the top??? and they just dont cut the string so it’s like super long and u gotta aim it right n reel it in. i just found that out today when i DID IT and it’s been the best working day of my life i had a blast blowing up balloons and fetching some off the ceiling. i had so much power? and NO ONE ELSE in my department likes that job so now it’s MY job when need be
omg so I work at a museum and one of our buildings has a) very high ceilings and b) a bizarrely sensitive alarm system that will go off if anything touches the ceiling. Because of this, helium balloons are considered public enemy #1 and are strictly forbidden from entering the museum. But just in case an illicit balloon is successfully smuggled in, the museum has acquired a fucking b.b. gun for the express purpose of shooting down rogue balloons.
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