probably crying about aliens

Helen, 21, existentially confused bisexual, she/her. cares more about star trek and podcasts than is probably socially acceptable. defender of the internet's least favorite female characters

[insanity-jane]

Me: no worries!

Narrator: she had several worries

[newyorkcityhomo]

Reblog this if YOU are not going to be kissed this New Years

[byeimoved-deactivated20170105]

fun depression things nobody ever talks about:

your perception of time gets all fucked up. did you shower today morning or was that yesterday? how did you feel last week? have you been depressed for a year or two years?

nobody fucking knows. time is a mystery

[ordenna-deactivated20181024]

Visit Original Link

[peachpitgirl]

in 2017 I’m going to eat 12 clementines and take a nap

[phonetish]

Monkeys have the vocal tools but not the brain power for language

The vocal tracts of macaques, a group of Old World monkeys, are ready for speech. Their brains are not.

The vocal tracts of macaques, a group of Old World monkeys, are ready for speech. Their brains are not. That’s the takeaway from a new paper published in the journal Science Advances.

The research suggests cognitive differences, not vocal adaptations, among humans and other animals explains the emergence of language.

“Now nobody can say that it’s something about the vocal anatomy that keeps monkeys from being able to speak – it has to be something in the brain,” Asif Ghazanfar, a professor of psychology at Princeton University, said in a news release. “Even if this finding only applies to macaque monkeys, it would still debunk the idea that it’s the anatomy that limits speech in nonhumans.”

[phonetish]

Also, this article is interesting. We can listen to monkey speech computer has simulated.

Why monkeys can’t talk—and what they would sound like if they could

Analyzing x-ray stills from the video, the team assembled a collection of 99 different configurations of Emiliano’s vocal tract, which is the open space sound flows through as it emerges from the larynx, then flows over the tongue and out the lips. “Essentially, we built up a model of all the possible things the monkey’s vocal anatomy could do,” Fitch says.

Next, the researchers employed a series of linguistic tools that measure which configurations of the lips, tongue, and larynx can produce the frequencies that correspond to various vowel sounds. Some languages have fewer than five vowels, the most common number, but vowels are essential to human speech. Calculating the macaque’s so-called “vowel space,” Fitch and Ghazanfar discovered that—at least theoretically—he, too, could produce five distinctive vowels, roughly equivalent to the A, E, I, O, and U in English.

Finally, the researchers input Emiliano’s vocal tract configurations into a computer program that simulates vowel and consonant production given different anatomical settings. They picked a phrase that would show off a wide vowel range, “Will you marry me?” and ran it through a simulation of the monkey’s vocal tract. Compared with a human, the simulated monkey’s voice sounds flat and gravelly, but the words are clear and comprehensible. (You can listen below.)

[allthingslinguistic]

As good a time as ever to link to the Neanderthal high-pitched voice hypothesis video from the BBC. 

[levourdalak]

Key to Oscar Wilde's jail cell at Reading Gaol sells for a staggering sum at auction - Irish Post

The Oscar Wilde key had been valued between £4,000 and £6,000 and was described as 'an evocative item' but in the end went for a much greater sum.

[amyadamses]

The Rolling Stones - Ride ‘Em On Down

[fassyy-blog]

[celebsofcolor]

Yara Shahidi and Rowan Blanchard for Teen Vogue

[prismably]

illustrations of ‘the yellow wallpaper’ short story for a class assignment

[shakyhands]

anyway I’m feelin out the sadness

[bleep-bloop-blarp]

Are you a lesbian tired of your inability to have sexual fantasies about the American Founding Fathers? Not anymore.

[mlderscully]

life goes on. (listen) | one. l.i.f.e.g.o.e.s.o.n - noah and the whale | two. love today - mika | three. cross your fingers - the summer set | four. imaginary friend - ghost vs. sanne | five. i don’t want to go to chelsea - elvis costello | six. wreckin’ bar (ra ra ra) - the vaccines | seven. when i’m small - phantogram | eight. youth without youth - metric | nine. adult - ceremony | ten. got up this morning - sage francis | eleven. flood’s new light - thee oh sees | twelve. woods - the rosebuds | thirteen. need you now - cut copy | fourteen. moneygrabber - fitz & the tantrums 

[auntbutch]

i want it but i feel like straight people, in their infinite capacity for being wrong and self-absorbed, would misinterpret the message as “i wish you were gay so we could fuck” when i would intend it as like “my condolences on your unfortunate condition”

[zhernobyl]

KINDA OUTTA LUCK: THE SOUTHERN BELLE 

i. jolene - miley cyrus | ii. body electric - lana del rey | iii. you are my sunshine - norman blake | iv. if i were free - edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros | v. bang bang - willy moon | vi. run daddy run - miranda lambert | vii. way down hades town - anaïs mitchell | viii. hell on heels - pistol annies | ix. woman - alessis ark | x. devil’s backbone - the civil wars | xi. sister - mumford and sons | xii. raise hell - brandi carlile 

part one

[aubergdesigns]

This necklace reads “be'ist,” or “feminist” in Klingon.

Available here → Klingon Necklace: Be'ist