BYNLF

"Musica delenit bestiam feram"

[quasi-normalcy]

I mean, it probably goes without saying, but the Found Family trope is so popular because so very many people are so terribly, terribly lonely

[sketchyfletch]

I adore the friends I do have immensely but god it would be nice to have like five people living nearby who I could call on for help or to hang out at any given moment

[fractally]

Found family, or, the villager impulse

[localgays2]

[mapsontheweb]

Map comparing four generations of kids how far they were allowed to roam.

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

"The Goblet of Fire"

Sometimes the mundane events of life hide extraordinary phenomena. This award-winning photograph by Sarang Naik shows yellow-brown spores streaming off a mushroom during monsoon season. (Image credit: S. Naik; via Big Picture Competition) With the Olympics kicking off today, FYFD will follow our usual tradition of Olympic-themed posts for the next couple weeks, so be sure to come back each day for the latest featured sport! Read the full article

[escapekit]

Guerilla Greening WATG uses guerilla greening to reimagine what big urban cities would look like if they underwent intensive ecological transformation.

[philosophybits]

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

[spinningblueball]

Roadmap To The Milky Way

Every now and then I like to post something that truly shows our place in the galaxy.  Most people have difficulty in locating us on a printed map, much less where we are in the Milky Way.  Look around and you will see us in a small corner of the Orion Spur of the Perseus Arm of the galaxy.  The Sun is labeled in the picture.  We are about a grain of sand’s distance from there.  Amazing how tiny we are yet how big we feel.  Thank you to NASA for EVERYTHING they bring us.

[female-stoner-blog]

[science]

[trefoiled-deactivated20260516]

Sacred Valley Salt Terraces, Peru. Local Andean villagers have shared and worked this salt farming system since the time of the Incan Empire. Photo: Beto Santillan

[philosophybits]

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique (via philosophybits)

[philosophybits]

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

John Dewey, Democracy and Education (via philosophybits)

[aroundrio]

[buhaybabae]

My blog is a private thing that is open to everyone in the world except to the people I know in real life.

[scientificphilosopher]

For some, the thought that we’re made up of ‘merely’ matter is distressing. For me, reflecting on this fact—that we are all composed of elements forged in the hearts of dying stars—sustains in me a sense of wonder and awe. How about you?

Follow my Instagram @scientificphilosopher!

[azspot]

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt (via azspot)

[scientificphilosopher]

[strangeparticles]

scientificphilosopher:

Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities. [x]

comic via: chainsawsuit

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

This needs a LOT more notes!!

[wehadfacesthen]

Chet Baker, 1955