theatlantic:

The World as We Know It Is About to End, According to Really Frightened Scientists

A new study by 22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return that leads to mass extinctions and harms human welfare. The situation, said one scientist, “scares the hell out of me.” That would be James H. Brown, one of the authors of alarming paper published by Nature, talking to New York Times Green blogger Justin Gillis. Brown is not one of your everyday cranks predicting raptures and the end of days. He is a macroecologist at the University of New Mexico.

Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Reuters]

Turns out we may not need to wait 4-5 billion years after all! Hooray?

(via discoverynews)

5/26/2012 (5:29pm)

Air Con

Getting excited over the new air con control! You can tell just how eventful my life has been recently. Can’t wait to get the last of the May exams done and dusted as I’ve got two weeks to kick back after that thanks to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Cheers Queenie!

#air con#exciting#eventful#life#sarcasm#exams#GCSEs#Queen's Diamond Jubilee

3/31/2012 (3:15am)

Domino Effect

Why is it that the more I have to do, the more I procrastinate? It really isn’t a logical :/ Going to be swamped with work tomorrow. So grateful, that I only have one more week till Easter break. Can’t wait to just kick back and relax… with a textbook. Ahhh the joys of GCSE’s. On the bright side it’s all up from here. Next year IB. HUZZAH! (note the sarcasm)

#work#procrastination#logic#domino effect#Easter break#relax#study#GCSE#IB#huzzah#sarcasm

2/8/2012 (4:30pm)

Lost

Just spent the past half hour working on an original post only for tumblr to lose it whilst saving it as a draft. Cheers tumblr. Thanks a lot (note the sarcasm)

#lost#original#content#post#text#tumblr#blog#draft#save#thanks#cheers#sarcasm