Tumblr (3.0; @candacevasquez)http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2835179b260b0a5083f0e1cc4fa32bb0/tumblr_mhaor7iGjo1qizcz6o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flip.it/nvNGm">New ‘Rock Candy’ Process To Manufacture Silicon Could Make Solar Power Even Cheaper</a><br/> By Climate Guest Blogger on Jan 25, 2013 at 2:18 pm, <a href="http://flip.it/nvNGm">thinkprogress.org</a></p> <p><i>By Tina Casey Via Clean Tech­ni­ca</i></p><p>Researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan have come up with a low-cost way to man­u­fac­ture high-grade sil­i­con, based on a con­cept famil­iar to any­one who has tried to make rock candy at home. I…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/41620168755http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/41620168755Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:33:07 -0500<a href="http://flip.it/U1pwf">Boy Scouts Threaten to Kick Out Troop For Supporting Gay Members</a>: <blockquote><p>Dana Liebelson, <a href="http://flip.it/U1pwf">motherjones.com</a></p> <p>Dana Liebelson</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/41620139143http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/41620139143Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:32:45 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/53a3e9a978521b506ee704ecb2af1d0e/tumblr_mhaopdi0ti1qizcz6o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flip.it/jglRP">Judge Faults Louisiana For Inadequate Voter Registration Efforts</a><br/> By Nicole Flatow on Jan 25, 2013 at 4:40 pm, <a href="http://flip.it/jglRP">thinkprogress.org</a></p> <p>A fed­er­al judge ruled this week that Louisiana vio­lat­ed fed­er­al vot­ing law in not offer­ing voter reg­is­tra­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties to appli­cants and recip­i­ents of pub­lic ben­e­fits pro­grams such as food stamps, WIC and Med­ic­aid. In y…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/41620081118http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/41620081118Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:32:01 -0500<a href="http://flpbd.it/Nvqjv">think-progress: Real life New Yorker cover....</a>: <blockquote><p><a href="http://flpbd.it/Nvqjv">tumblr.com</a></p> <p>think-progress:</p><p>Real life New York­er cover. After Sandy dam­aged the orig­i­nal polling site, vot­ers cast their bal­lot by flash­light in Stat­en Island, New York.</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/35132465443http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/35132465443Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:43:43 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mam5byhfmg1qzhkvho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://barackobama.tumblr.com/post/31876149028/48-days-get-registered-photo-via-your-bff-and" class="tumblr_blog">barackobama</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>48 days. <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/get-registered">Get registered</a>. (photo via your BFF and ours, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/beyonce">Beyoncé</a>)</p></blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31958474801http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31958474801Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:31:52 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mamjweQ3bo1qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flpbd.it/elqgU">Fire tornado captured on film in Australia - video</a><br/><a href="http://flpbd.it/elqgU">guardian.co.uk</a></p> <p>A fire tornado, one of nature’s rarest weather events, is caught on camera in Curtin Springs, in Australia’s Outback. The twister, made of flames reaching around 30 metres off the ground, was caused when a warm, rotating and rising column of air…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31895682217http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31895682217Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:24:13 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mai063HLwH1qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flpbd.it/8XiIw">10,000 Unwanted Books Overtake the Streets of Melbourne</a><br/> Caroline Stanley, <a href="http://flpbd.it/8XiIw">flavorwire.com</a></p> <p>We know how some of you bris­tle at the sight of used books repur­posed in art, so it’s with more than a lit­tle trep­i­da­tion that we tell you about an epic instal­la­tion by Span­ish art col­lec­tive Luz­in­ter­rup­tus that recent­ly went up in…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31729525175http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31729525175Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:27:39 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mahzzyhrW01qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://flpbd.it/pkgu7">Vintage Photographs From Inside 10 Famous Libraries</a><br/> Emily Temple, <a href="http://flpbd.it/pkgu7">flavorwire.com</a></p> <p>It’s no secret that we’re fans of beau­ti­ful libraries here, but it’s not only gor­geous archi­tec­ture and shiny mahogany work bench­es that excite us. Inspired by a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of vin­tage pho­tographs of the New York Pub­lic…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31729402228http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/31729402228Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:23:58 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m95zv7XZuQ1qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/08/22/obama-beer/">Reddit User Wants a Look at Obama’s Beer Recipe</a><br/> Alex Fitzpatrick, <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/08/22/obama-beer/">mashable.com</a></p> <p>Pres­i­dent Obama’s White House chefs have been hard at work for months per­fect­ing sev­er­al offi­cial home­brew recip­ies, includ­ing White House Honey Ale, White House Honey Blonde and White House Honey Porter.</p><p>The pres­i­dent’s a huge fan o…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29970269169http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29970269169Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:16:19 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92twbylYa1qizcz6o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://cironline.org/reports/man-who-armed-black-panthers-was-fbi-informant-records-show-3753">Man who armed Black Panthers was FBI informant, records show | Center for Investigative Reporting</a><br/><a href="http://cironline.org/reports/man-who-armed-black-panthers-was-fbi-informant-records-show-3753">cironline.org</a></p> <p>Video: Ari­ane Wu<br/>Read full tran­script</p><p>The man who gave the Black Pan­ther Party some of its first firearms and weapons train­ing – which pre­ced­ed fatal shootouts with Oak­land police in the tur­bu­lent 1960s – was an under­cov­er FBI…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29857310316http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29857310316Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:14:34 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92tse6nMY1qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/africa/controversial-meeting-malabo">A controversial meeting in Malabo</a><br/> Yvonne Ndege, <a href="http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/africa/controversial-meeting-malabo">aljazeera.com</a></p> <p>Thou­sands of del­e­gates, includ­ing 16 heads of state, celebri­ties, phil­an­thropists, bil­lion­aire busi­ness lead­ers, entre­pre­neurs, sports per­son­al­i­ties, and aca­d­e­mics are con­verg­ing on the cap­i­tal of Equa­to­r­i­al Guinea,…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29857148296http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29857148296Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:14 -0400<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/rape-abortion-and-the-privilege-of-magical-thinking/261313/">Rape, Abortion, and the Privilege of Magical Thinking</a>: <blockquote><p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/rape-abortion-and-the-privilege-of-magical-thinking/261313/">theatlantic.com</a></p> <p>Mis­souri Sen­ate can­di­date Todd Akin recent­ly offered his thoughts on abor­tion in the instances of rape:</p><p>“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sund…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29833110931http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29833110931Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:22:04 -0400<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/08/16/repeal_the_17th_amendment/">Repeal the 17th Amendment!</a>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29554797431http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/29554797431Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:45:51 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8frogqq4i1qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/315872/seiichi-hayashis-pretty-illustrations-of-beautiful-young-women">Seiichi Hayashi’s Pretty Illustrations of Modern Young Women</a><br/> Caroline Stanley, <a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/315872/seiichi-hayashis-pretty-illustrations-of-beautiful-young-women">flavorwire.com</a></p> <p>Best known for his work on <i>Red Col­ored Elegy</i>, an under­ground Japan­ese manga from the early ’70s, Manchuria-born artist Sei­ichi Hayashi more recent­ly drew a strik­ing series of illus­tra­tions of young women that were fea­tured in a 200…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28977383822http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28977383822Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:21:52 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8fqixkGnT1qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/syrian-rebels-pull-back-in-aleppo-district/article4468941/">Syrian rebels pull back in Aleppo district</a><br/> Hadeel Al Shalchi, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/syrian-rebels-pull-back-in-aleppo-district/article4468941/">theglobeandmail.com</a></p> <p>Alep­po, Syria — Reuters</p><p>Syr­i­an rebels fight­ing Pres­i­dent Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the north­ern city of Alep­po have aban­doned at least one posi­tion in a bat­tered dis­trict where fight­ing has raged for days.</p><p>“We have retreat­ed, g…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28976679298http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28976679298Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:56:57 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8eqwlJJYx1qizcz6o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3839867">A Literary Detective in Novel ‘Something Rotten’</a><br/> Linda Wertheimer, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3839867">npr.org</a></p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28938988325http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28938988325Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:07:33 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8b3ibzx831qizcz6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/232181563444584448/photo/1">CMPunk: Now reading! <a href="http://t.co/jPFC7YDS">http://t.co/jPFC7YDS</a></a><br/><a href="http://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/232181563444584448/photo/1">twitter.com</a></p> <p>Now read­ing! pic.twitter.com/jPFC7YDS</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28797494751http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28797494751Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:49:23 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8aqh8NkUs1qizcz6o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/314826/amazing-noir-inspired-animated-gifs-of-monsters">Amazing Noir-Inspired Animated Gifs of Monsters</a><br/> Caroline Stanley, <a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/314826/amazing-noir-inspired-animated-gifs-of-monsters">flavorwire.com</a></p> <p>If you were raised on a steady diet of vin­tage hor­ror flicks like <i>Drac­u­la</i>, <i>Franken­stein</i>, and <i>Crea­ture From the Black Lagoon</i> or film noir clas­sics such as <i>The Big Sleep</i> and <i>The Mal­tese Fal­con</i>, then you’ll…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28779627689http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28779627689Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:07:54 -0400<a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/pokemon-in-nyan-form/">Original 151 Pokémon in Nyan Cat Form</a>: <blockquote><p>Ted Johnson, <a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/pokemon-in-nyan-form/">geekosystem.com</a></p> <p>We’ve seen alter­nate ver­sions of Pokémon before (here, here, here, here, and here), but never quite like this. Pokémon got a whole lot Nyanier with each of the <b>orig­i­nal 151 Pokémon as Nyan Cats</b>. Accord­ing to uploader, <b>Simon…</b></p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28779548662http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28779548662Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:06:41 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8aq9pBJH61qizcz6o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/314828/11-meta-novels-that-will-blow-your-mind">11 Meta-Novels That Will Blow Your Mind</a><br/> Emily Temple, <a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/314828/11-meta-novels-that-will-blow-your-mind">flavorwire.com</a></p> <p>As you might have noticed, we love us some meta lit­er­a­ture here at Fla­vor­wire. So when we heard about Ariel S. Win­ter’s <i>The Twenty-Year Death</i>, a novel in three nov­els, each in the style of a dif­fer­ent mys­tery writer, which hits…</p> </blockquote>http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28779355464http://candacevasquez.tumblr.com/post/28779355464Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:03:25 -0400