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solthree: wwc | favorite quote per season in colours abound |...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:49:02 +0800

wwc | favorite quote per season in colours abound | series 6

overland-frost: You’re much stronger than you think you...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:40:38 +0800

You’re much stronger than you think you are

I’m never gonna pass off the chance to reblog this because hell, sometimes knowing that some one fictional will be there in times like there really does help.

- They say it’s all down hill after the first kiss.- I think...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:38:47 +0800

_{- They say it’s all down hill after the first kiss.
- I think that’s only true when kissing humans.}

Current state: Emotionally compromised over a TV show about teenage werewolves.

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:08:41 +0800

Current state: Emotionally compromised over a TV show about teenage werewolves.

"If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give..."

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:55:30 +0800

““If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.””

- Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)

simplystiles: “I’d care if you died.” Teen Wolf AU: When...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:23:19 +0800

simplystiles:

“I’d care if you died.”

Teen Wolf AU: When Derek returns half-dead once again, Stiles thinks it’s about time someone told him he is the only one who doesn’t see how much he means to other people.

Are you willing to let him go?

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:41:12 +0800

Are you willing to let him go?

"But Natasha is the only one who mines her own vulnerability. She’s the only one who makes it into a..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:55:37 +0800

“But Natasha is the only one who mines her own vulnerability. She’s the only one who makes it into a performance. And there’s something radical in acknowledging that feminine vulnerability as a performative, as something fake we are taught to expect and to mimic. That can be our superpower. We can be strong in ways men never will be because we face bullshit they will never have to face. That’s not justice, but it is power. It is strength. It’s control.”

- this super great essay about black widow and feminism (via eucatastrophia)

sidekickinit: Okay, I’m going to need to spend a little bit of...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:12:37 +0800

sidekickinit:

Okay, I’m going to need to spend a little bit of time talking about that last panel, because holy crap, that “YES!” was nearly unhinged. My love for this scene is off the charts - NOT ONLY because I don’t see any pedastal-ing of Lydia here, but because we’re three episodes in and Stiles is ALREADY fraying. I understand why Jeff Davis decided to jump four months in the timeline - it makes sense to reset everyone to a more even keel, even if in my heart of hearts I want all the angst. But man, Stiles did NOT end last season in a good place (however much they wanted us to think that via that final lacrosse scene), and I don’t believe for a second that he actually dealt with any of his issues.

This just reinforces that for me. He’s had four months of relative calm, four months where he got to repress repress repress and pretend he didn’t have anything to do but play lacrosse with Scott. Only now, within the span of DAYS, he finds out there’s an Alpha pack in town and that Erica’s (supposedly) dead. He’s dealing with the fact that Boyd and Cora are loose and probably going to kill someone, that Scott’s desperately trying to stop them before that happens, that Heather’s gone missing, and that Lydia has somehow stumbled across yet another body.

And I love that in this moment, he loses control; all of that underlying tension and fear and desperation break through for just a second, because shit’s going to get BAD again, he knows it. There’s no fucking question. I feel like this is him trying to keep control of the situation, but it’s already slipping through his fingers. He’s not going to be able to keep Scott safe, or Lydia safe, or his DAD safe. Things are spiraling already - before the night’s over, he’ll know that Heather’s dead, that he couldn’t do a damn thing to protect her.

He’s 16 years old, on no PLANET should he be someone’s first call when they find a body, but here he’s convinced he should be, because if he knows everything, if he has all the facts, then maybe he can stop it. Maybe he can keep the people he cares about safe.

(Don’t mind me, I’ll just be sitting here, waiting for his complete and total obsession with this mystery to start. Because if he can figure it out, he can stop it. And if he can stop it, then everyone he loves is safe.)

brodingershat: scientiststhesis: dr-archeville: 8bitstickmod: ...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:47:19 +0800

brodingershat:

scientiststhesis:

dr-archeville:

8bitstickmod:

nightguardmod:

songoharotto:

fabricated-amity:

my entire math life

This is basically the problem with the entire modern educational system.

Time to do unpopular opinion? Time to do unpopular opinion.

Balancing a checkbook is applied addition and subtraction, stuff of the third grade. Okay, yeah, it is a failure of the modern educational system if he hasn’t learned it by now.

Imaginary numbers interact with real numbers (1, 2, π, 1.5, etc) for complex numbers, and are useful if you want to get into engineering or science — you know, high paying jobs.

Remember Tomb Raider? How they make her turn? Quaternions, which use THREE sets of imaginary numbers.

Like how your cell phone gets reception? That requires resonance, the understanding of which can be aided by complex numbers.

And don’t even get me started in the more exotic physics like fluid dynamics or quantum mechanics. That is, the forefront of how planes fly and how computer chips work.

There’s this term, innumeracy, that is to math what illiteracy is to english. One thing that bugs me is when ignorance is paraded about, when one acts as if math is an optional knowledge. Doubly so when it’s the very thing holding them back.

The failure is not in teaching these things, but the lack of teaching about why we should care about these things.

Thank you maths side of tumblr

The failure is not in teaching these things, but the lack of teaching about why we should care about these things.

Come to think of it, that’s applicable to how a lot of subjects are taught.

But I’m afraid maths gets the worst of it, really. I mean, how often have you heard people complaining about history? Social sciences? Even chemistry, which is more specialised than maths? No, maths gets the worst of it by far, and everyone demonises it because no one ever tells them that maths is a language, and a quite difficult one at that, because it’s the language of the Universe (of god, if you will).

Not only that, but it’s also the only language that’s truly universal (we’re certain aliens will arrive at the same maths we have) and that can truly explain everything that’s in principle conceivable. Human language can describe the stuff we see, and some extrapolations we imagine; maths can describe everything that is, was, will be, has never been, and could ever be.

Everything is maths.

This is already excellently explained and defended, so please forgive me for reblogging and adding a veritable novel to it.

This is precisely what nobody ever even tried to make me understand as a kid, and what I try so desperately to make people understand as an adult.

When the above say that math is a language, they are being more or less literal.

The reason that mathematics is so confusing to so many people is pretty much just because it was never properly explained to them.

Math is a language heavily reliant on the symbolic representation of pre-existing concepts. As a language, it is dedicated to the pursuit of absolute grammatical consistency and the simplification of its sentence structures without any accompanying sacrifice of meaning.

So, actually, math is infinitely easier than English.

I’ll get to why below.

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"I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:39:43 +0800

“I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.”

- Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin (via bundleofstring)

explore-blog: High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who notoriously...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:57:09 +0800

explore-blog:

High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who notoriously walked between the World Trade Center twin towers in 1974 and whose Cheating the Impossible is a must-read, explores the art of making knots in Why Knot? How to Tie More Than Sixty Ingenious, Useful, Beautiful, Lifesaving and Secure Knots.

(↬ CoDesign)

alphavenger: a support group for people who have been wrecked by derek hale and are in a constant...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:40:15 +0800

alphavenger:

a support group for people who have been wrecked by derek hale and are in a constant state of emotional instability and pain

bbqutie: SHE DID THAT SHIT

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:37:33 +0800

bbqutie:

SHE DID THAT SHIT

gravityhurts-sosweet: this will never be not funny.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:25:48 +0800

gravityhurts-sosweet:

this will never be not funny.

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:34:49 +0800

rockerchic93: twigwise: soloproject: michellicopter: I...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:44:43 +0800

thor no. thor NO.

ofc coulson knows about bruce. granted tony, that is not very sneaky.

slytherin house is full of frenemies

clint is that a hot pocket. gross.

rockerchic93:

twigwise:

soloproject:

michellicopter:

I couldn’t decide where I wanted Coulson to be sorted, so.

Too adorable, could not not re-blog

#what if Coulson wasn’t even a wizard #he just sort of #showed up #but he was so damn helpful that nobody questioned it

Coulson is in every house

onmyway-tofitness: healthy—-lovee: sowouldfinnick: inspiration...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:10:12 +0800

onmyway-tofitness:

healthy—-lovee:

sowouldfinnick:

inspirationbyinvitation:

Male feminists

Why the fuck doesn’t this have eight million notes? Get it together, tumblr.

Reblog every time.

37breaths: charliewomanofletters: editingatwork: Humorously...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:03:07 +0800

37breaths:

charliewomanofletters:

editingatwork:

Humorously done but it brings up a very good point about the song. (And I like how the guys immediately reacted, “Wow, dude, that’s not okay.”)

Seriously, even as like a ten year old I knew that line was just wrong.

I like how they beat the shit out of the rapist at the end. We need more humor on the side against rape like this video.

devildoll: if you fuck with someone this kid loves you will be...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:35:49 +0800

devildoll:

if you fuck with someone this kid loves you will be sorry