Góðan Daginn

My name is Peter and I like linguistics and math and anthropology and culture and animals and origami and dogs and men and music but mostly music. I am also an infinite well of positive energy.

[l-ile]

[vladtheunfollower]

absolute madman

[maeborowski]

self portrait

[dyeupeter]

Ok so this clearly isn’t a monarch but I’m wondering if this is similar to what monarch caterpillars do. Their host plant (milkweed) does what is sounds like, and produces a thick, sticky substance when broken, so the caterpillars eat in a pattern of circular arcs to avoid getting stuck in the goo. The risk is pretty high when they hatch, as they are quite smol. 

[thebibliosphere]

People adding Nazi apologist shit onto my posts like “but nazis invented cell phones and space rockets so without them we’d be less technologically advanced VuV” like buddy, if you think for one second we wouldn’t have eventually made it to the moon or made instant communication devices without mass genocide then I dunno what to tell you except to get the fuck away from me.

Your kind aren’t welcome here.

[thebibliosphere]

Also would I “trade” my cell phone for a world with no Nazis?

Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me?!?!

I’d trade my own life for a world without nazis. Fuck my phone. Fuck going to the moon. Human life should not be the cost of societal and technological progress.

What the fuck is wrong with you.

[firespirited]

??? We’d have probably had cellphones sooner given the amount of inventors, theorists and artists the nazis killed. We’d have been to the moon sooner if we didn’t have segregation. God only knows where we’d be if women were given the opportunity to invent sooner. Disabled people come up with cool stuff too. It’s a whole new world of creation if you value human life equally!

[badscienceshenanigans-deactivat]

*the sound of a thousand nuclear physicists laughing* Buckle up kids, today we’re talking about why the Nazis never invented the atom bomb. We’re gonna do this

to white supremacist minds. Ok. So the Nazis were all about physics … as long as it was with things you could see & touch. Rockets, improved motors, even radio tech (which gives tangible audio and/or visual results) were awesome and very good careers for good German boys. Theoretical physics, on the other hand, was viewed as made-up Jewish bullshit. The German scientific old guard did NOT like little punks like Einstein. Who did they think they were, running around with their “time is relative” and “the interstellar ether doesn’t exist” and who the shit even cares what’s INSIDE an atom, Albert, it’s not like the INSIDE does anything. JESUS. The Nazis saw modern physics as being the same thing as Freud’s psychology, Klimt’s modern art, and Kafka’s stories: a decadent waste of time, way too Jewish, and definitely not cool or manly. So to combat uncool Jewish science, pro-Nazi German scientists founded an actual movement– “Deutsche Physik/Aryan Physics”– all about real stuff like engines and bombs and it was gonna serve the SHIT out of the fatherland. No Jews allowed.

“Ugh, GROSS.” -Nazis Jewish nerds who wanted to study physics & engineering had to settle for theoretical physics. And boy did they ever. Niels Bohr, Hermann Minkowski, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Epstein, James Franck, Rudolf Kompfner, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Victor Weisskopf , Eugene Wigner, Frank and J. Robert Oppenheimer, and some dude named Albert Einstein among others were all turning their lemons into sweet, sticky theoretical physics lemonade in 1920s Germany. Every single one of them, and more, emigrated to the US in the 1930s. Jewish colleagues from Axis Italy, like Emilio Segrè and Enrico Fermi– aka the guy who built the world’s first nuclear reactor, and married to a Jewish woman– joined the brain drain as Europe hemorrhaged nuclear physicists right into America’s warm, heaving, bloodthirsty bosom. 

*artist’s rendition 

Albert Einstein’s application to become a US citizen. Dated Jan 18th, 1936. The few Gentile nuclear physicists Germany had managed to produce– Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and Arnold Sommerfeld– were persecuted just for being into Jewish stuff. Like, “were called out in the official SS newspaper for being ‘White Jews’” and “Heisenberg’s mom called Himmler’s mom and told her to tell Himmler to make the Nazis stop being mean to her boy”-level persecuted. That’s right, these badass Reich science dudes couldn’t even do their job without their moms running interference. THAT’s how fucking great the Nazis were at science. Meanwhile the bright lights over in Deutsche Physik were talking about how there’s actually been a bunch of moons and when of the last ones fell down it buried Atlantis and also the sun’s gravity suddenly stops at 3x the orbital radius of Neptune. Like… thank God for those Nazi scientific advances, amirite?

Nationalist German scientists cheerfully joined the persecution of their Jewish colleagues, because Nazi scientists just really wanted Jewish physicists’ jobs. But the bummer was, the Nazi scientists couldn’t handle the mathematics that made relativity work. They were too dumb to do that science. Look– we’ve all been there. But the nationalist German scientists’ approach was– instead of leveling up their game, just discredit everything their rivals did. Declare it dumb, and made-up, and all the good parts of this stuff we just said was dumb and made-up were already invented by Aryans anyway, so why keep Jewish scientists around? Just forget about this atomic physics crap and keep giving us money to talk shit about Neptune, it’ll be great.

“Hahaha wut?” -Nazis Eventually the Third Reich figured out that atom bombs were a thing and they should probably make one. They put Heisenberg– who, if you’ll recall, just had to have his mom call in an anti-bullying PSA to the Fuhrer’s secretary three short paragraphs ago– in charge. With every single other person who knew about nuclear fission having left Germany years ago, Heisenberg was pretty much on his own. The Nazi bomb project went nowhere. A Nazi Germany with nuclear weapons would been able to do whatever the fuck they wanted. The only thing that stood in their way? Their own. goddamn. antisemitism.

Director of Los Alamos weapons lab and Jewish American, J. Robert Oppenheimer, seen in profile as he oversees final assembly of the Trinity test bomb. Trinity was the first test detonation in the US nuclear weapons program. (x) Is this a post in support of atom bombs? No. This is a post about how being so high on your own inferiority complex that you’re down to murder people smarter than you, will fuck you in assholes you didn’t even know you had. 

[drst]

Thank you, Science Tumblr, for that deconstruction of Nazi bullshit.

[clockworkcanary]

This is excellent as is, but, I need to point out that the USA political situation is in many ways falling into this same hole now. We are becoming xenophobic and anti science at our top political level. The GOP is practically anti reality at this point. We need to fix this.

[thebibliosphere]

Holy shit, this is the best addition to any of my posts. 

[janothar]

I don’t remember if I’ve reblogged this with the small correction before, but Fermi wasn’t Jewish. He DID flee persecution of Jews, though, because he was a lapsed Catholic who married a Jewish woman. Otherwise, yeah, this is 100%

[wetwareproblem]

“Nazis invented cell phones!”

Funny, I seem to remember the spread-spectrum frequency-hopping radio technology that modern wireless telecomms depend on being invented by a Jewish woman.

Yet another level of basic fact-checking these bootlickers fail.

[dyeupeter]

I first came across this when studying advanced linear algebra! There was a nazi mathematician by the name of Pascual Jordan who made significant contributions to matrix mechanics. He was thoroughly involved in antisemitism, but also tried to push the nazis to accept “Jewish physics”, particularly the work of Einstein. Thankfully he was not successful. 

[mikedawwwson]

Why Did They Come?

[wobblyjimbles]

TOO FUCKIN’ phenomenal to NOT reblog!!!!

[mysharona1987]

[dyeupeter]

I just came up with this integer sequence, and whoever is the first person to figure out how it is derived gets to be my new best friend. 

Here it is: 

1,2,3,7,17,27,4,14,24,1,

11,21,31,8,18,28,5,15,25,2,

12,22,32,9,19,29,6,16,26,3,

13,23,33,67,167,267,37,137,237,7,

107,207,307,77,177,277,47,147,247,17...

[dyeupeter]

Which scale are you?

Ionian (C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C): Your favorite band is the beatles and you hate confrontation. 

Lydian (C,D,E,F#,G,A,B,C): Wearing a flower crown right now, loves R&B, constantly daydreaming. 

Spanish Phrygian (C,Db,E,F,G,Ab,Bb,C): MOODY AF. Possibly from the southern shores of the mediterranean. Possible interests: Islamic music, death metal, flamenco. 

Mixolydian (C,D,E,F,G,A,Bb,C): Likely a dad. 

Dorian  (C,D,Eb,F,G,A,Bb,C): rebel who plays devil’s advocate constantly, yet still very likeable. 

Aeolian  (C,D,Eb,F,G,Ab,Bb,C): Just like Ionian except on a bad day and had an inexplicably fleeting talent for poetry. 

Lochrian  (C,Db,Eb,F,Gb,Ab,Bb,C) Really into paganism. Might be Björk.

Diminished (C,Db,Eb,E,F#,G,A,Bb,C): Listens to the right of spring for fun. Collector of instruments that are not designed for equal temperament. Math degree. 

Coltrane hexatonic (C,Eb,E,G,Ab,B,C): Also a math degree. Likes to play cherokee at 240 bpm. 

Chromatic (C,Db,D,Eb,E,F,Gb,G,Ab,A,Bb,B,C): your favorite color is gray. Reads a lot of wikipedia. Owns a lizard. 

Mixolydian flat 6:  (C,D,E,F,G,Ab,Bb,C): Plays the accordian. Is learning old church slavonic. 

Bebop (C,D,E,F,G,Ab,A,B,C): likes things to work out the easiest way possible. Likes to play cherokee at 260 bpm. 

[papasankofa2-deactivated2020121]

We need this in the US

[tontonmichel-deactivated2022021]

Fantastic

[sugarmacaron]

It’s so nice to see Africans recognized for leading the way in something especially when it comes to environment and health!

[niiadom]

Rwanda is amazing like they really brought themselves out of one of the darkest times imaginable

[weavemama]

THIS IS HOW YOU START THE PROCESS OF CHANGE

[weavemama]

I also love how this bill doesn’t follow the ableist agenda that’s been going around lately that demonizes mentally ill people. The bill carefully specifies that the ban is for convicted domestic abusers. Good job Oregon.

[anarchyisfunandfree]

The problem isn’t that “the country is divided” the problem is the increasing acceptance of fascism as a legitimate political position. Framing it as a problem of division puts those who want to kill the poor, LGBT people, and poc on equal moral footing with those who would like not to die.

[la-laborista-republiko]

[cosmic-noir]

I could vomit

[molothoo]

Tamed a continent…..

Tamed……..a continent..

[all-down-hill-soon-gone-deactiv]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Must watch: Chris Hayes on 'despicable' new Trump policy

The United States government is now systematically taking children as young as 53 weeks old away from their parents at the border, thanks to new directives issued by the Trump administration.

I guess only white children are “precious gifts from god”

[dopeluminarydreamer-blog]

The more I hear about America’s politics, the more I’m glad of not being there

[orchidvioletindigo]

This is honestly a humanitarian crisis.

Our government is kidnapping babies and carting them off to God knows where, possibly to never be seen again.

Nearly the same thing happened in Argentina forty years ago when the country was ruled by a fascist military dictatorship.

These children are our Disappeared.

[muatra-holder]

Read this. Now.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Do you happen to know anyone on tumblr how posts about abstract algebra? If not no worries but I'm curious

@math-wolfe @fundamentalgroup or @matan-matika perhaps? Although just about anyone getting their math phd has probably had to take at least one abstract class and might be willing to chat about it. Followers?

[dyeupeter]

I’ve only taken one abstract algebra course but I love me some finite groups! 

[politicalsci]

[theblvckcool]

[peanutworm]

You, an intellectual: 9+7=16

Me, with ADHD: if you take 1 from 9 and give it to 7 thats 8+8 and 8x2 is 16

Someone, usually a Teacher: NOT LIKE THAT YOU HEATHEN

[chiefmilesobrien]

This is literally how I would have done it

[thewildonion]

9 is a hungry bitch and takes one from 7, making it 10+6=16

[peanutworm]

VALID

[thetransintransgenic]

Also though like speaking as a Math, noticing that 9+7 is (8+1) + (8-1) also totally works for this and is also extremely useful for other things?

Like, when you’re doing 9x7, sure you can do it by tens and notice that it’s (10-1)x7=70-7=63, but you can also notice it’s (8+1)x(8-1), which because of ~algebra~ (but most people just remember it) is 82 - 1 = 64-1=63.

And like sometimes one way is easier or harder, and always it’s useful to be able to do it two ways to check if you’re not sure.

So like, if you have a Method, that Works, then absolutely just Use It And Blah Unto The Bad Teachers Who Say “no but instead” rather than “yes and”.

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Hey look algebra tricks like this are valid if they work! And good! I do it all the time 😂🙂

[dyeupeter]

Totally valid! Any teacher who says not to think like this is hindering your abilities and creativity. Higher level math courses involve this kind of creativity all the time. Oftentimes no two students will have the same proof to a homework problem, yet all of them work. 

[revfitz]