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Ahh Jaysus lads here we go again. No Irish need apply to the Ivies or something.
God forbid a Slav do anything near a land-grant school.
Also this is going to be used in antisemitic ways because of course it is.
A lot of people who thought their whiteness was objective reality are about to learn itâs conditional huh
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It's not just 'white' they're diving deep into every variant of ethnicity too. They want to single out exactly what country everyone's parents hailed from.
Rocks are liquible if you have enough heat. If one doesn't understand me that would be stupific and they may need to lucify themselves
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The night sky on Mars
I was wondering whether the constellations would look any different on Mars, so I looked it up, and apparently not; galactically speaking Mars is so close to us that the difference is imperceptible. However, I did find this neat additional bit:
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be us
Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised. Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. âWhat I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,â said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. âIt is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.â
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Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjĂś"
German has borrowed the italian "Ciau", spelling it "Tschau" and only using it as a goodby instead of also a greeting.
I had completely forgotten about this, this is fantastic.
If you enjoyed "ciao" becoming "tschau", you'll definitely want to hear where "tschĂźss" (German, also meaning "goodbye") comes from!
Borrowed from German Low German tschßà from earlier adjßs, from Dutch adjuus, back-formation from adjuusjes, from French adieu.
We can't let the French keep getting away with this
I mean the french very much aren't getting away with it. Everyone else is taking their language and running off with it cackling with glee. We're all getting away with fucking up french words on purpose
#English loves french so much it steals the same fucking word a few centuries apart so it gets two words that have the same meaning#But different spellings -#Like guarantee/warranty#(aside: There was a w/g shift so you can see if the word showed up with the normans or got nicked later#Which is why for e.g. the english call it wales and the french call it pays de galls)#Catch/chase#Gender/genre
official linguistics post
Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjĂś"
German has borrowed the italian "Ciau", spelling it "Tschau" and only using it as a goodby instead of also a greeting.
I had completely forgotten about this, this is fantastic.
If you enjoyed "ciao" becoming "tschau", you'll definitely want to hear where "tschĂźss" (German, also meaning "goodbye") comes from!
Borrowed from German Low German tschßà from earlier adjßs, from Dutch adjuus, back-formation from adjuusjes, from French adieu.
We can't let the French keep getting away with this
I mean the french very much aren't getting away with it. Everyone else is taking their language and running off with it cackling with glee. We're all getting away with fucking up french words on purpose
#English loves french so much it steals the same fucking word a few centuries apart so it gets two words that have the same meaning#But different spellings -#Like guarantee/warranty#(aside: There was a w/g shift so you can see if the word showed up with the normans or got nicked later#Which is why for e.g. the english call it wales and the french call it pays de galls)#Catch/chase#Gender/genre
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âI donât care about dumb weed jokes,â I said naively, before I saw this
This 420 is a palindrome!!!! 4/20/2024
It is!
idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, itâs not because you wonât be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsbyâs green light or whatever, itâs because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if youâre wondering what happens when you DONâT develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com
this post went from 600 to 2400 notes in the time it took me to write 3 emails. iâm already terrified for whatâs going to happen in there
k but also, as an addendum, the reason we study literary analysis is because everything an author writes has meaning, whether it was intentional or not, and their biases and agendas are often reflected in their choice of language and literary devices and so forth! and that ties directly into being able to identify, for example, the racist and antisemitic dogwhistles often employed by the right wing, or the subconscious word choices that can unintentionally illustrate someoneâs bias or blind spot. LANGUAGE HAS WEIGHT AND MEANING! the way we communicate is a reflection of our inner selves, and thatâs true regardless of whether itâs a short story or a novel or a blog post or a tweet. instead of taking a piece of writing at face value and stopping there, assuming that there is no deeper meaning or thought behind the words on the page, ask yourself these two questions instead:
1. what is the author trying to say? 2. what does the author maybe not realize theyâre saying?
because the most interesting reading of any piece of literature, imho, usually occupies the space in between those questions.
Also, sometimes it has hidden meaning relating to how art was funded. For example, Dickens never met an adjective he didnât like because he was paid by the word. Dumas included long and pointless dialogue because he was paid by the line. Even stuff that was purposely included for dumbass reasons can teach us about the world the author lived in.
im someone who really struggled in school with english bc of things like this, bc i didnt get them. imo it would really help if teachers EXPLAINED why youre doing this instead of just. expecting you to do it without any reason. or expetting you to understand why youre doing it without an explanation. bc yeah, that was my main issue; i had no idae why the fuck this was useful or relevant irl.
USA Cultural Regions Map
This is super cool
For non-Americans: this is actually accurate and reflects how Americans understand ourselves and regional identities. These arenât official labels, but theyâre not totally made up either.
you know how pokemon have types theyâre weaker and stronger than? american regions work like that
In Japanese, they donât say âmoon,â they say âtsuki,â which literally translates to âmoon,â and I think thatâs how language works.
Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?
nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though
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[ID: The first is an image of Canada and Mexico with the United States edited out that reads "Oh thank god it was just a dream". The second image is an image of North America with all lands labelled with the names of the tribes living on them that reads "Oh thank god it was just a dream".]
here is a REALLY detailed hq map of indigenous american nations if you're interested (you are.)
and alaska. and hawai'i.
looks like we all talked enough shit that staff put The Community Guidelines Violating Maps⢠back
What I learn from Science & Technology Studies is that you shouldn't blindly trust science because there's a fair amount of fuckery (mostly unintentional but sometimes not) going on in the background, but you also shouldn't *not* trust science in the way that most people who don't trust science don't trust science.
Anyways, hope that helps!
So to be clear, science:
Often takes as implicit particular philosophical assumptions that aren't necessarily valid in all cases (e.g., psychologists accepting liberal-individualistic models of human nature and neglecting social causes)
Relatedly, often works with things that are easy to measure, regardless of whether there is any a priori argument in favour of those quantities being particularly relevant (the so-called "streetlight fallacy"--e.g., there are actually rather few results from clonar mice that are directly portable to humans, but clonar mouse studies remain a standard in medical research because they're easy to conduct)
Relatedly, often assumes that entire complicated systems can be reduced down to proxies that are easy to measure and especially to quantify, regardless of whether this is a reasonable assumption or not (e.g., "gene fetishism" neglecting the role of epigenetics, proteomics, etc. in favour of attributing every significant aspect of an organism to its genes)
Often takes as implicit certain perspectives and cultural biases, especially white/male/Western perspectives (e.g., the entire centuries-old body of midwifery lore being ignored upon the professionalization of medicine as a discipline in the seventeenth century)
Often encodes other cultural biases as well (for example, mycology was, until quite recently, extremely understudied and relegated to a minor subfield of botany because Anglo cultures tend to have a low regard for fungus; this in spite of the fact that fungi make up a very significant chunk of the earth's biomass)
Can often present entire models of how the world works that are arrived at based on sociological factors within science itself (Thomas Kuhn's paradigms), or within the wider society (Foucault's epistemes)
Often misstates statistical significance because scientists lack an adequate command of the discipline of statistics.
Can churn out a lot of substandard studies because of professional pressures on academics to publish, publishers' pressures to have the next big thing, and the time constraints of peer reviewers.
Can often just produce straight-up garbage because some fields are beholden to commercial interests (e.g., the pharmaceutical industry maintains entire journals that just exist to give crap drug trials the appearance of scientific legitimacy)
Can be manipulated by dishonest reporting (e.g., the pharmaceutical industry, again, might conduct hundreds of studies and publish only the one that produces favourable results; Facebook might conduct hundreds of studies on manipulating public attitudes and only publish the few that encourage advertisers to give them money)
Is shaped by the priorities of the state and capital (i.e., in terms of what research questions get funded)
Is a structurally collective enterprise that builds largely on trust in the competence and intellectual honesty of one's peers, rather than verification of every previous result by every individual scientist
At a policy level, can produce misleading results just based on what particular types of scientist are invited to the table (e.g., COVID-19 containment measures going disastrously awry because epidemiologists were considered relevant to include on the panel but social psychologists were not)
However, none of this, when taken together, should be interpreted to mean:
Science is made-up
Scientific findings bear no relation to the actual behaviour of nature
You can just pick and choose what aspects of science to believe in based on gut instinct or what makes you feel good
Science is not the best tool we have for distinguishing what's real from what we want to believe.
Notice how many of the stuff about that first list derives from systemic incentives, too. These are things that can be improved, and in many cases there are a lot of people out there trying to improve them! The more support that scientists have from people who are skeptical and critical of the implementation of scientific inquiry, the easier it is to challenge the sources of those systemic errors.
I was writing a lot of very frustrated critiques of academia last night, but at the same time there is so much power in the scientific method as a form of inquiry about the natural world. It's a dialectic!
One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth's rotation steers their currents; that they're studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word "lake" is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.
Some fun facts about her majesty, Lake Superior:
It has a surface area of 31,700 sq. miles, roughly the size of South Carolina or Austria.
It's incredibly deep and has enough water to cover all of North and South America to a depth of 12 inches.
Waves over 30 feet have been recorded.
Its deepest point is 1,333 feet, which is the third lowest point in North America
Its average temperature is around 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 Celsius), which inhibits bacterial growth in bodies, diminishing bloating and gas, and frequently shipwreck and drowning victims to sink to the bottom and never be recovered.
