Shut up and calculate.

Physics. Philosophy. Pinch of poetry.

[lamignonette]

[3sbeee]

Can we talk about how the idea that STEM and the humanities are mortal enemies with no overlap is actually incredibly harmful and is not only preventing people from pursuing their passions but also part of the reason why the humanities aren’t given their proper respect? No, artists are not all snobby pretentious assholes who think they’re more cultured than everyone else and no scientists are not all emotionless robots who think they’re smarter than everyone else and it’s possible to be an artist and a scientist at the same time. By acting like you have to choose between STEM and humanities we are eliminating thousands of potential careers and causing unnecessary divisions in a time where nothing is more crucial than unity. I’m so tired of people acting like STEM majors are incapable of understanding art and humanities majors are incapable of understanding math when the two fields are crucial to one another. Who would design our architecture if it weren’t for artful engineers? Who would discover the rules of composition? At the end of the day we are all just people trying to learn and make a living, and all of these careers are important to humanity. People can’t say that STEM is more important than humanities if there’s no such thing as STEM vs humanities.

[chroniclesofachemist]

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Here's the link to the video

👏 SAY 👏 IT 👏 LOUDER 👏

[nerd-mcgeek]

electromagnetism could beat gravity in a fight and yet gravity gets all the PR

[juney-blues]

IN SPITE OF OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE, SCIENTISTS STILL DENY THE EARTH SKULL WRAITH THEORY

[discombobulatedrebel]

Flat skullers wya

[webweabings]

THE STARS KNOW EVERYTHING

“Dilbert”, by Scott Adam; // “Manfred”, by Lord George Gordon Byron; // Poem by Traci Brown; // “Delphi Complete Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, by Ralph Waldo Emerson; // “Kaddish and Other Poems: Poem Rocket”, by Allen Ginsberg; // “Pleasures, Objects and Advantages of Literature”, by Robert Aris Willmott; // “The Garden of Epicurus”, by Anatole France; // Poem by Chandrasekar Koneru; // Quote by Les Brown; // Quote by Vincent van Gogh; // “Love and Space Dust”, by David Jones; // Quote by Virgil; // Unknown; // “The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Astronomy”, Vol. 1, 3-6 by Richard P. Feynman; // Quote by Henry van Dyke; // “Twilight Hours: A legacy of verse”, by Sarah Williams; // Unknow; // “Poems, by Currer, Ellis and Acton”, by Emily Brontë

[redstonedust]

love when a character is a scientist and their speciality is science and they do science in a science lab. no specifics no clear goals no clue where their funding comes from. dont even worry about it. science.

[weltenwellen]

An Interview with Richard Siken

[alwaysbeenjessica]

learning that curiosity is at the root of all that i do, and making space for it instead of running away

[aromanticduck]

Gender non-convergent

[aromanticduck]

'Male/female aligned' is out, 'converges to male/female' is in.

[aromanticduck]

Gender convergent, gender divergent, gender oscillating.

[abalidoth]

My gender is everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable

[vacuously-true]

Exam questions are like "invent an evil and fucked up gender that is bounded and continuous but not uniformly continuous" "invent an evil and fucked up gender that is continuous on [0,1] and attains each value at an even number of points" don't mind if I do

[pajrc1234]

Conditionally convergent gender

[vacuously-true]

"Yeah you know when I was growing up I was definitely an f: ℂ -> ℂ st f(x)=x² but these days I identify more as an f: ℚ -> ℚ st f(x)=x². Like it's mostly the same and I don't mind when people treat it the same but it feels a little different."

[ecrivainsolitaire]

You people aren't going to trick me into learning maths no matter how queer you make them

[emmy-noethers-rings]

Sure sure if you take my first gender and my second one they define a boundary over a gender space. We shall call these boundaries w.l.o.g. a and b, defining further their interval as [a,b]. As my gender is only defined on this boundary, we know by Bolzano-weierstrauss that there exists at least one convergent subsequence in the sequence of my genders. Let (a_1, a_2, …) be this sequence. We claim that this sequence converges to something in the range [femme-aligned, binary female]. Proof is left as an exercise to the reader □

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Saturn and Rhea

Credit: NASA/Kevin Gill

[zvaigzdelasas]

And the best headline of the year goes to….

[cumaeansibyl]

you guys I found the article and it’s fantastic

they did in-depth interviews with 137 scientists and about 35% of them mentioned Dawkins unprompted, and about 80% of those were apparently just desperate to tell someone how much they hate him

[vergess]

28% of scientists hate Richard Dawkins so much that they just start spouting off about his bullshit unprompted.

[sage-nebula]

[sourcreammachine]

author of the god delusion got so islamophobic he managed to reinvent evangelical christianity

[zoecloud1]

Not so fun fact, he’s also into eugenics and transphobic

[charyou-tree]

Self-proclaimed “atheist” calls himself “culturally-christian” for the express purpose of being bigoted towards all the people christians typically hate.

[femmenietzsche]

The more Nietzsche worked on Diogenes in his early years, the more he came to see him not as a learned and honest authority on ancient Greek philosophy but instead as a liar, a thief, and a fool. For example, in an unpublished manuscript on “Laertius Diogenes and His Sources. A Contribution to the History of Ancient Literary Studies,” he writes What is La. Di. to us? Nobody would waste a word about the lowbrow physiognomy of this writer if he were not by chance the dim-witted watchman who guards treasures without having a clue about their value. He is the night watchman of the history of Greek philosophy: no one can enter into it unless he has given him the key.

[t00thpasteface]

nothing online is ever truly deleted. except that one fucking thing you're looking for

[noodles-07]

it is truly amazing how much math the human brain does without even knowing it (how much force to use to pick something up or throw something, how fast to walk to get where you’re going, balance) and yet despite all this going on under the hood I still manage to fucking suck at it

[liminalbeauty]

I guess the problem is that whatever native programming we're running isn't the same language as math. Math is an externally constructed device to turn physical laws into language. Your brain runs more like music. It, too, is a language, but doesn't need to be written down to be understood.

[diracpointless]

You know, we often say that math is a universal language. We even sent it into space believing that if intelligent life does find it, they will understand it and know where we've gotten to vis à vis knowledge.

But what if extra terrestrial beings don't need to externally construct math? What if they can communicate the body's math? Like the just sing "AaaAaaAAaaAaaah" and their colleague is like "Ah yes, the Navier-Stokes Equation*".

[britneysunicorn-blog]

Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station

[anexperimentallife]

[guiltycrunch]