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Nobody ever talk to me about the catholics going off with stained glass again because not one window of jesus has ANYTHING on the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque

Click through this link i’m losing my mind its gorgeous

royalhandmaidens

i absolutely love seeing people’s reactions to the pink mosque 😂

the style is called “orsi” and is unique to iran

and stained glass traces its roots to south west and west asia, developed in ancient times and well before the europeans and the roman empire saw it and said “hey i like that, i’ll be leaving with it”

royalhandmaidens

and while we’re talking about mosques in iran, may i present persian mirror work in a different mosque in the same city?

every time someone tries to talk to me about western churches and architecture and their superiority to that of “third world countries” i have to laugh a little at the ignorance, especially when our mosques look like this

avernotownship

my inner history/architecture nerd is going to scream these are so so so pretty

people love to say europe was the most advanced but honestly most technology, knowledge, goods, and innovations come FROM civilizations like china, india, the great zimbabwe, etc. through trade routes like the silk road and the indian ocean

-source: my WHAP notes, which i will gladly give to anyone if they want it just don’t be surprised if they’re occasionally unhinged

bitcoitus

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

bitcoitus

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

saoirseronanswife

“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

prismatic-bell

In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.

shredsandpatches

In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.

thepioden

In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded.

jumpingjacktrash

in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.

prepare yourself. it begins.

quousque

In this essay, I will use the first person pronoun as a bludgeoning weapon

injerinya-deactivated20200819

Honestly I don’t wish, I need, people to start treating Africa the way they treat Asia. Asia is far less homogenized and regions of Asia are at times discussed as if they’re different worlds all together and the regions of Africa are no different in many regards.

Just, please.

vaultsofheaven

adding this insightful article about the consistent dismissal and generalisation of africa as a single country when it is in fact the most genetically diverse continent in the world with 54 countries (making it the continent with the most countries and territories).

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I have no idea where to search to find good study resources about Africa and it's diversity. If anyone knows any, I would be very happy to get to know it and learn more about Africa.

whosnatalia

Detail: Apollo and the Arts, 1897, by Paul Jean Gervais.

bitterbloodrose

richard siken, crush // my chemical romance, burn bright // william shakespeare, sonnet 108 // troye sivan, heaven // homer, the iliad // louis tomlinson, only the brave // madeline miller, the song of achilles

doinglanguagestuff-deactivated2

There is NO hard language, just different ones. Even the hardest language is just average difficult.

As many of you know there are 5 groups of languages for English native speakers based on "how hard" a language is.

With group one being the easiest (languages like Spanish, French, Italian, etc.) to group five including the hardest (like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.).

But to which group a language belongs can change drastically based on which languages you speak or are interested in.

So let's take a look at "how hard a language is" when you actually don't know a single language at all.

When learning their mother tongue, it's all the same, all around the world. Kids can express themselves in an easy way at the age of 4 to 5. At this point they can tell you stories about what happened during the day, follow commands that include multiple steps (like go brush your teeth, then change clothes, go to bed, etc.) and also strangers should be able to understand what the kid is saying. So the kid is at a level what we would consider fluent but not at a high native speaker level, because it can't understand complex topics. A kid is starting to actually try talking when it's around 6 months old.

So as a result we can say if you don't know any language at all you need around 4 years to learn it in a way, to be conversational. And you have to keep in mind that for the first language kids have the URGE to learn it, because otherwise they don't "belong" to the group and humans are social animals. They can't just switch to their native language if they don't want to learn anymore. If they want to talk to ANY person, they HAVE TO learn their first language. It's socially necessary and back in time an important step of survival.

So let's say if you don't know any other language and have a very important reason for learning one AND are surrounded by it non stop with people trying to talk to you ALL THE TIME, you will need 4 years to be on a decent conversational level.

So if we take a look at the 5 groups of languages, even the hardest ones don't take adults THAT long.

And adults have the opportunity to have social contact without their target language.

Even if you don't "need" your target language, people of this language aren't trying to talk to you all the time and you're not surrounded by it non stop, adults are able to reach an even higher level as "conversational" in this time span.

So it's not like the "hardest" group of these language rankings is actually hard, it's just closer to "learning from scratch" because it's not closely related to the language you know. And even then you're still faster than having to learn a language totally from point zero because you already learned how a language in general works.

The result is, the hardest group is more like the normal group and everything else is just "how much faster and easier will it be based on what I already know".

So don't scare yourself with stuff like "oh my god, everyone says it's such a hard language... can I even learn it?". Yes, you can. You will even learn it faster than native speakers without having the language surrounding you 24/7. If 4 years olds can learn it, every adult can learn it. And it's NOT(!) a hard language! It's just harder than the other ones and ONLY(!) because you already have a great advantage when it comes to the other languages. But the level of difficulty, even for the hardest language is actually just "normal".

And it's annoying that people keep talking about such called "hard languages". Theres just an average difficulty and everything else are just extra points you gained through your native language that makes specific languages EASIER for you.

Let's look at it like that:

With every language you start at 0% (what every kid no matter which language they'll learn as their native language does).

The closer your target language is to the languages you know, the higher your start percentage is.

For example if you're Korean learning Japanese, the grammar is quite similar so you already start with 20%.

If you're Spanish and learn Italian you even have many words in common, so you start with 30%.

(Btw the percentage numbers are just random numbers to show what I mean, they are not fact numbers.)

If you're Russian you'll start with 10% when learning German because you already know how cases work.

And so on. It works with EVERY language. If you know genders, cases, conjugation, etc. and your target language includes that, you don't have to figure out how it works, you already know it. Sure you often have to learn new words for that but it's not like you have to figure out the system behind that.

So the absolute WORST case could only be to start at 0% (what you probably never will because in the very basic every language is the same, for example trying to talk about a subject, etc. You already know the purpose of a language.) BUT you will NEVER(!) start with minus percent. So stop freaking yourself out. There is no hard language, just a more different system you have to get used to.

It's not hard if everyone, literally everyone, can learn it. Especially millions of 4 years olds. Don't give up just because you make mistakes or don't get the hang of something right away.

Every kid needs around 4 years to speak the absolute same stuff, no matter which language (not including writing system in later years). So all languages have the absolute SAME difficulty when it comes to learning them. It just depends on what you already know, which can make it easier/faster.

tejanobluez

"Child of the moon, rub your rainy eyes. Child of the moon, give me a wide-awake crescent-shaped smile."

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I think we have this idea that to learn a language you need more tips and tricks in order to study beyond beginner courses, with flashcards, memory palaces, memorize vocab lists, exercises to increase certain skills, etc. I think a better approach is just a simple one.

To improve listening comprehension? You gotta actively listen to hours of content in your TL.

To improve reading comprehension? You gotta read in your TL, work your way through texts and novels searching up words and writing down phrases you like as you need to.

To improve speaking? You gotta speak your TL, find a tutor, partner, or native speaker.

To improve writing? You gotta write in your TL, keep a journal, etc.

You get better at these skills by just doing them consistently. (And it’s usually more fun than the alternatives)

goodreadss

Water Lilies, Pink - Claude Monet

dolcesostenuto

petit four

French dessert name designating a bite-sized confectionery, glazed, iced or decorated tiny cakes covered in fondant or icing, such as small éclairs, madeleines, truffles,and tartlets. It litterally means “little oven”.

gif from Little Women, 1994

astrosoeur

the signs as french expressions

Aries: Après moi, le deluge - “after me, the flood”, something thought to have been said to Louis XV by his mistress Madame de Pompadour, implying an indifference to what (damage) happens after you are gone, a disregard for the consequences of your life.

Taurus: Plus ca change… (plus c'est la même chose) - “the more things change, the more they remain the same”, a way to express disillusion or defeat in regards to how things always stay the same at their core, even though things change.

Gemini: Savoir-faire - “know (what to) do”, the quality of being capable to handle any situation with grace, having mastered adaptability and ingenuity.

Cancer: Enfant terrible - “unruly child”, refers to someone (often a child or one of childish spirit) who, by being overly candid and untimely in behavior, embarrasses and shocks their surroundings.

Leo: Roi fainéant - “do-nothing king”, an expression for a king with no (real) power, a play-king left to his riches, vanities and dissipations.

Virgo: Le mot juste - “the exact word”, coined by Flaubert, searching for le mot juste is the tireless and hopeless effort in finding the perfect word to describe something, to fix the unfixable.

Libra: Cherchez la femme - “look for/seek the woman”, a presumption that if a man is acting strangely, out of character, or inexplicably—there’s always a woman lying behind it.

Scorpio: L’appel du vide - “the call of the void”, being plagued by intrusive thoughts of destructive nature, feeling momentarily drawn to demise.

Sagittarius: Espirit d’escalier - “staircase wit”, the frustrating phenomenon of coming up with the perfect observation or comeback after the opportunity to use it has passed.

Capricorn: Nostalgie de la boue - “mud nostalgia”, a desire or yearning for what is depraved, degrading or crude.

Aquarius: Poète maudit - “doomed poet”, used to describe the fate of the great poet, who is doomed to obscurity and to live as an outcast to, or against the world.

Pisces: Flâneur - “stroller”, a leisurely wanderer of city streets, an aesthete and observer of life.

nordic-language-love

people are always like “ohhh i’m kinda scared to learn that language bc it’s got all those extra letters” and i’m like bitch those are not the letters you should be scared of it’s the r that’s gonna fuck you up

helennaps

nasa

10 Amazing Space Discoveries by the World’s Largest Flying Observatory

On the night of May 26, 2010, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, the world’s largest flying observatory, first peered into the cosmos. Its mission: to study celestial objects and astronomical phenomena with infrared light. Many objects in space emit almost all their energy at infrared wavelengths. Often, they are invisible when observed in ordinary, visible light. Over the last decade, the aircraft’s 106-inch telescope has been used to study black holes, planets, galaxies, star-forming nebulas and more! The observations have led to major breakthroughs in astronomy, revolutionizing our understanding of the solar system and beyond. To celebrate its 10 years of exploration, here’s a look at the top 10 discoveries made by our telescope on a plane:

The Universe’s First Type of Molecule

Scientists believe that around 100,000 years after the big bang, helium and hydrogen combined to make a molecule called helium hydride. Its recent discovery confirms a key part of our basic understanding of the early universe.

A New View of the Milky Way

More than a pretty picture, this panorama of cosmic scale reveals details that can help explain how massive stars are born and what’s feeding our Milky Way galaxy’s supermassive black hole.

When Planets Collide

A double-star system that is more than 300 light-years away likely had an extreme collision between two of its rocky planets. A similar event in our own solar system may have formed our Moon.

How A Black Hole Feasts

Fear not, the dark, my friend. And let the feast begin! Magnetic fields in the Cygnus A galaxy are trapping material where it is close enough to be devoured by a hungry black hole.

Somewhere Like Home

The planetary system around Epsilon Eridani, a star located about 10 light-years away, has an architecture remarkably similar to our solar system. What’s more, its central star is a younger, fainter version of our Sun.

A Quiet Place

Black holes in many galaxies are actively consuming material, but our Milky Way galaxy’s central black hole is relatively quiet. Observations show magnetic fields may be directing material around, not into, the belly of the beast.

The Great Escape

Ever wonder how material leaves a galaxy? The wind flowing from the center of the Cigar Galaxy is so strong it’s pulling a magnetic field — and the mass of 50 to 60 million Suns — with it.

Exploding Star, New Worlds

What happens when a star goes boom? It turns out that supernova explosions can produce a substantial amount of material from which planets like Earth can form.

Stellar Sibling Rivalry

They say siblings need time and space to grow, but here’s one that really needs some room. A newborn star in the Orion Nebula is clearing a bubble of space around it, preventing any new luminous family members from forming nearby.

Clues to Life’s Building Blocks

Radiation from stars is making organic molecules in nebula NGC 7023, also known as the Iris Nebula, larger and more complex. The growth of these molecules is one of the steps that could lead to the emergence of life under the right circumstances.

SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that allows astronomers to study the solar system and beyond in ways that are not possible with ground-based telescopes. Find out more about the mission at www.nasa.gov/SOFIA.

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inkskinned

Also I had to be a fully online student for a semester would anyone like tips lmao or is that like annoying coming from a now teacher

inkskinned

Okay before I begin - i’m just a person with adhd and depression and anxiety (these are their stories). i am obvi not a professional online class taker. this is just what helped me. i also really recommend following all medical and mental preparations you normally would, but do those with gusto. it’s not meant to be an exhaustive list, but it is meant to help.

stay safe out there i love u

DO NOT expect yourself to be fully accountable. you won’t be. you can’t be. think of how many times you said to yourself “i don’t want to go to class”. you cannot expect yourself to just… overcome that same amount of despair when pokemon is in another tab.

so instead DO find people who will ACTUALLY hold you accountable. i know my mistake was just sitting a room with someone else and saying “let’s study” but we were both on instagram. find someone who is like. nope, m/w/f we are ACTUALLY doing work from 2-4. specific schedules are imperative.

log out of social media and then switch laptops and/or phones with this person. definitely the phones. you wanna know how not to spend hours on social media? literally don’t have access to it. & this way if you get an emergency text you can obviously act on it since your friend will see, but you’re still being kept honest. if you have to ask for your phone back, you are more accountable for what you’re doing on it.

have punishments & rewards in place. if you ask for your phone back for non-emergencies more than 3 times, for example, or 3 minutes, you owe ur friend 5 bucks. or if two weeks of focus happens, you both get some kind of reward for each other under 10 bucks. etc.

DO NOT assume this means u can wait until friday to learn everything, because friday’s due dates will roll around and you’ll be fucked lmao. I lie to myself and set deadlines closer than they are and bc i have adhd i just. believe the lie lmao thanks time blindness.

DO take it seriously. otherwise next semester will fucking suck bc the other classes will be expecting knowledge you don’t have bc you cheated on the online courses. yes i know you can and do cheat. but like,,,, just don’t if you don’t have to ??? you’re paying for these classes either way, it’s just a matter of how fucked you will be if you don’t learn this stuff.

none of us can fucking focus when it’s just words on a screen. i NEED the extra distraction of background music, but that just means spending 6 hours on youtube finding the “right” one. pre-download video game music or deep vibes etc.

on that note be aware of your own body’s signs of over or under stimulation. i need to be busy with my hands, i just do, and while this means taking notes when in person, online i also play extremely low-info games like cubefield. in person you have audio and visual stimulation, so i recommend when stuff is just audio or visual to… like do something else at the same time. i usually suggest video games as long as you make sure these are low-text, low rule-changing, low difficulty games so they do not overwhelm the information you’re processing. if you’re the kind who need to be doing something with your hands to listen to a podcast, this one is for u.

read it out loud to yourself and record the reading. auditory processing WHOM! now you can listen back to your notes while reading a second time and see where you stumbled while reading out loud - probably the same places you’re not understanding the work.

kahn academy. youtube. do not underestimate how incredibly helpful follow-along videos are.

if you can teach it, you know it. usually around every 5 paragraphs of new information (just bc of my major and reading comp but yours can be every paragraph or every page, just keep it on the smaller side), i like to take 20 seconds to say - how would i teach it to another person? how would i explain this to someone with literally no context? this helps us establish really clear flow maps mentally of “okay to know this thing u must know this. now this new idea. which is akin to this old idea”. so instead of just a bunch of new information, you have a web of clear items and can see where it is failing.

whenever you can be, if you can be, don’t be online. lmao. i had to print out my papers and edit them by hand bc i just WOULDNT do a good job when on google docs. if you can do it in person, do. you absolutely should be trying to take in-person (NOT typed) notes, barring obviously accommodations. typing does not encode information the way writing does and like. i know you don’t remember what you said on the discussion board bc neither do i. obviously!!! this is not always possible! but like do at least take screen breaks when you can.

speaking of which. like i said, i recommend really specific times, and i actually don’t recommend breaks during this time? i think neurotypical ppl probably can take breaks but my brain is like. oh we done? we done forever. instead, like i said, make a schedule where you’re hyperfocusing for however long. then take the break after (NOT before lmao you’ll never begin). read books, make art, do a tiny workout. now u can go back to screens. otherwise….. the depression (screen type)

i also recommend really specific places. when u are doing work you’re in THIS chair or that part of the floor. i live in my bed but i work on my couch. do not make the adhd mistake of being like “today i will sit in my ‘free time’ space and then get up and go to my work space” bc you wont and we both know that and it’s okay we’re in this together. instead, while you’re procrastinating, don’t go to either space until you have the motivation to do your work first. i do not recommend beds be used for anything but sleep (seriously this is actually like super important for all people) however if you’re like me and just don’t have a lot of options, make sure you at least change the orientation of how you’re sitting before doing free time stuff. do not just sit up in bed on your phone.

copy lecture notes, put em into word (google drive if u must but i try to go as webfree as possible), and make the font bigger and different. weirdly, and this is true, comic sans works reaLLY WELL for making shit more focused in your brain. you will glaze over 12 pt serif fonts after 6 classes. if each class has its own (READABLE) font, it weirdly helps pattern recognition of “oh this was THOSE notes”.

answer questions out loud first, and feel free to record your answers. while i think with my writing, there are SO many people who think by speaking (which is like. why discussion classes actually work). do not underestimate how much thinking you do out loud, even if it feels silly.

lmao make tiktoks or other videos doing joke versions of the lecture or the notes. how would you sarcastically sum this up? congrats now you’re having fun and also learning like way better.

similar to the above, singing/dancing/making art of concepts feels kinda silly but helps us literally so much. yes also STEM majors even you guys.

inertia is fucking everything. you live by this and u die by this now, she is your master. if you find the energy to take a shower, can you leave your phone charging? if you can shower, can you get dressed? can you walk the dog? can you do 1 class of work? can you do 3? if there’s a situation where you know you tend to “stop” during a normal day, take it as a hazard during these times. for example, i “stop” every time i go to unplug my phone, bc then my phone is in my hand and i can be on social media. usually, i have a very strict and helpful schedule which means i know at some point the fear of being late will make me put my phone down. without that fear, this has become a 2 hr long “stopping point”. find your stopping points and avoid them if you can, or treat them at least like bigass sandpits. go in focused on getting out asap.

skype!! your friends!! and teach each other stuff! do the classes together!

put your calendars other places than just ur school’s zoom/blackboard/moodle/etc. have a physical place you can see when and where stuff is happening.

godspeed.

fightostudy

These are +++++++A tips wow

eintsein

godsent

pinkakuma

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