祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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One Nice Bug Per Day
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Cosmic Funnies
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Not today Justin
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@theartofmadeline
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
DEAR READER
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Peter Solarz
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@curiosityonwings
I checked to make sure it wasn’t AI, and I’m happy to say it’s a real bench in Zaporizhia, Ukraine!
[ID: photo of a park bench shaped like a book. The top is the spine of the book and it curves like the cover and several pages are bent. / end ID]
And they are right in front of the central library
Man i love Zaporizhzhia
PSA:
1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly
2. If you are silly, you must stay silly
2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
im the third one and i doubt i can re-silly
There is no third one. Look again.
I believe in you. You can silly again.
PhD "anti-acknowledgements" by Dr. Rachel Los
New part of the immune system - hidden inside our bodies - could be used to make new antibiotics.
A new part of the immune system has been discovered and it is a goldmine of potential antibiotics, scientists have said. They've shown a part of the body known to recycle proteins has a secret mode that can spew out an arsenal of bacteria-killing chemicals. The researchers in Israel say it transforms our understanding of how we are protected against infection.
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yeah sorry i’m over all the aesthetically pleasing note shit i used to do in highschool with the cursive that would take me eight years and all the extra af color coding that took so much time instead i have a sketchbook that i just scribble concepts i don’t understand (like this embryology) and i type my notes online
well at least I have my academic achievements to keep me warm at night
My latest New Scientist cartoon
The Book of Goodnight Stories, Vratislav Štovíček, illustrated by Karel Franta, 1986
chromosomes? no sorry i use firefox
The fact that there’s an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.
So, if anyone hasn’t encountered the concept of the library of Babel, the idea comes from a story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which is set inside a seemingly infinite library which contains every possible combination of letters, periods, commas and spaces that fits within 410 pages.
So like… It isn’t THAT out there that someone was able to make a digital version of it. Making an algorithm that randomly generates every possible combination of those 29 characters within that space and making a website that lets you explore those combinations are things that are pretty squarely within the scope of things you’d expect someone to be able to make a computer do.
But it begins to get pretty out there when you start thinking about all the things that are technically contained there (and that someone randomly browsing it could THEORETICALLY stumble upon) just by virtue of being one of those possible combinations of letters, spaces, commas, and periods.
Somewhere in that website there IS a book that specifically mentions me by full name before giving an accurate, excruciatingly detailed, 410-page long physical description of me. There’ also many more books that SEEM to be that but are actually factually inaccurate. There’s also versions of all of those containing every possible combination of every possible typo, spelling mistake, and grammatical error.
Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s a perfectly accurate prediction of how and when I will die narrated in third person over the course of 410 pages. There’s also a book that contains the exact same events narrated in first person. Not only for me, but for every person in the world. There are many more that claim to be that but are actually inaccurate.
Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s completely blank except for the world’s funniest dick joke written right at the end of the very last page.
But chances are no one browsing that website is EVER going to see any of that because for every book we would consider useful, interesting, or even intelligible there are millions upon millions upon millions more that are just completely full of gibberish from cover to cover.
Every single thing I will ever write (barring punctuation marks that arent periods or commas and the letter ñ) is already contained somewhere on that website.
I have a volume from the Library of Babel! it’s one of my most treasured books.
on the second to last page, about halfway down it reads “OH TIME THY PYRAMIDS” a singular grain of order in the sea of chaos.
The library of babel contains every book to ever exist and moreover it contains all information that can be encoded in a finite string of characters from its alphabet.
I cannot overstate how much I love the Library of Babel. it’s wonderful, it is my heart and soul.
at last we created the perplexing nexus, from the novel “wouldnt it be weird if there was a perplexing nexus?”
@wearelibrarian
I think I’ve shared this one before, but it’s worth looking at again for sure.
Signing off an academic correspondence with "I hope you'll have a fast and favorable review process", like I am wishing fair winds and a swift passage to my esteemed friend who's captain of a frigate heading for the north American station or a cruise around the horn.
I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator
yall wont trick me into listening to kpop
You can try Radiooooo.com - The Musical Time Machine!!
choose a country, pick a decade, and GO!!
you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).
I personally found myself loving 1970s Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire! Also 1920s and 1970s Japan for sure! Cambodian music: spectacular. Love Armenia and Mali as well. I’ve been told 70s Germany is weird and 30s Algeria is cool but I haven’t gotten around to those yet. Italy’s 1960s is bomb ofc but I’m biased ;)
This is the best website anyone has ever shared.
#german and russian and japanese are generally foreign languages i like hearing in music.
Try Czech and Spanish, they have some amazing punk and rap
Italy has surprisingly great metal
Also try Radiogarden!
I found a lot of music by going through wikipedia and listening to a band from every country 😅 I didn’t get to the end but I found some neat stuff
The wordle of science is a lot more depressing than regular wordle #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon #academia #science #research #errantscience
