Garden Of Ivy

[abalidoth]

Fun little math trick I find really helpful: the ratio of a mile to a kilometer is within 1% of the Golden Ratio. That means that if you have a good memory for Fibonacci numbers (1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89) you can convert pretty accurately by taking consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

For example, 89 kilometers is really close to 55 miles (55.3). Or, say you need to convert 26 miles to kilometers: 26 can be written as 21 plus 5, so taking the next Fibonacci number up gives 34 and 8, meaning it should be around 42 kilometers. Sure enough, it's 41.8 km!

[tamberoo]

i need several moments, math like this scares me

[abalidoth]

Not gonna lie, as much as I want to be helpful and comprehensible, I am very proud of provoking that reaction image.

[raccooninapartyhat]

baby me, sorting m&ms by color and then into a gradient: now this is how you have fun!

[loremipsumflotsamandjetsam]

[roach-works]

baby me, observing other children eating fistfulls of randomly colored gummy bears all at once: when do i get to go back to my home planet

[fuddlyduddly]

[infamousphaze]

The Clearest Images of Jupiter ever taken

These beautifully real images are some of the closest images of Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. The original image was captured by JunoCam, the camera on NASA's Juno mission in orbit around Jupiter. This image was taken on Juno's 22nd close pass by Jupiter on Sept. 12, 2019 with image processing done by Prateek.

📸: NASA's Juno Space Probe / JunoCam

[hansoeii]

Act of Grace.

[ruinedchildhood]

[metamorphesque]

On blue and blues 

Maggie Nelson (Bluets), Banana Yoshimoto (Asleep), Li-Young Lee (The Undressing: Poems), Aron Wiesenfeld (Study for Night Reading), Holly Warburton (Shoreditch, Blues, Witches, A Face in the Crowd)

[kasimirmir]

[khyaali-baatein]

The festival of lights ~ Deepawali/Diwali

[lokorum]

the unknown distance to the great beyond, stares back at my grieving frame

[memeclassheroes]

[freeshavacado]

[futureevilscientist]

Thinking about how the Russian word for “comrade” isn’t actually nearly as stilted and formal-sounding in the language itself and would be more accurately translated as companion/fellow/pal/partner (the whole point of it is that it’s a gender-neutral informal form of address that makes no distinction by gender or social class or profession), and how much that simple mistranslation turned viral has done to shape the perception of people living in Soviet times as these fanatical overly stilted communist caricatures

anyway, language and propaganda and all that

[futureevilscientist]

americans think it means soldier when it actually means friend 

Whoop. There it is in one line.

[vaporize-employers]

you have nothing to lose but your chains, bestie

[ebaybumpstock]

people who write for like the new yorker think that the piece of kitchenware that symbolizes the working class is the mason jar but it’s actually this

[lovely-ivy]

The amount of psych damage taken when going out shopping with my mom

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[anexperimentallife]

[bundibird]

I dont really care if you use the term bisexual or pansexual, but what i DO care about is that you understand that bisexuality at NO stage in history was EVER trans-exclusionary. Bisexuality has always included trans folks, and non-binary folks, and the entire spectrum of gender between male and female, as well as Definitively Gender and agender. It has ALWAYS meant "attraction to more than one gender." It has NEVER meant "attraction to cis men and women only."

So, pan, bi, use whichever label you will. But do NOT buy into the recent-years innacurate concept that bisexuality is attraction to cis men and women only, because thats literally never been the case.