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I would like just one Persuasion adaptation with a normal ending. No spontaneous Venetian carnivals or running the Bath half-marathon.

taciturn-nerd

Bath should have an annual Persuasion half-marathon where you have to run in regency attire.

per-asperaa-ad-astra

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

#love letters #richard feynman

satanasaeternus

“Holding The Moon” Knights Ferry, California by Eric Hock

gentlyascending

George Clausen

wild-saber1337

MY GOD WHAT HAVE I FOUND XD

I'm not sorry for having you know this exists XD

tetw

Ten Great Essays about Scientific Method

But is it Science? by Jim Baggott - There is no agreed criterion to distinguish science from pseudoscience, or just plain ordinary bullshit…

The Problem with P-values by David Colquhoun - Academic psychology and medical testing are both dogged by unreliability. The reason is clear: we got probability wrong

Saving Science by Daniel Sarewitz - Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world

The Mistrust of Science by Atul Gawande - What it means to be a scientist in a time of increasing mistrust toward the scientific community…

The Tyranny of Simple Explanations by Philip Ball - Imagine you’re a scientist with a set of results that are equally well predicted by two different theories. Which theory do you choose?

Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? by Joel Achenbach - We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge—from climate change to vaccinations—faces furious opposition. Why?

Scientific Method Man by Joseph D'Agnese - Will verifiers revolutionize the scientific method and help solve other seemingly unsolvable mysteries, such as the origins of the universe or the cause of Alzheimer’s disease?

The Mouse Trap by Daniel Engber - On the dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease

Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs by Stephen Jay Gould - Science, in its most fundamental definition, is a fruitful mode of inquiry, not a list of enticing conclusions…

The Consolidation-Disruption Index Is Alarming by Derek Thompson - Science has a crummy-paper problem.

peaceinthestorm

Fernand Toussaint (1873-1956, Belgian) ~ The Window (The Sill), n/d

snowandstarlight

one of my favorite moments of the anne of green gables series is when anne tries to picture her future home with her dream man and is concerned to realize that gilbert keeps popping up to help around the house

#but he's not her dream man no of course not #aogg

ot3

it’s been long enough i’m making an executive decision that we all need to go reread the tgi fridays infinite mozzarella sticks article

ot3

still just as good as i remember it

gentlyascending

Alphonse Osbert

birdcagewalk

lovethistoomuch

I've been on a bit ob a Russell Crowe movie binge in the past few weeks and since he is almost sixty now, many of the movies I've watched were consequently older movies. and when I watched them, it struck me again, how much hollywood has changed in the last few decades when it comes to depicting men.

take Gladiator for example from the year 2000. Russell Crowe plays basically an action hero in it. he is a big, muscly dude, who is very strong and uses that strength to defeat his enemies. and this is what he looks like:

looks like a strong man, right?

in the same year, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine looked like this in the first X-men movie:

in 2013 the same character played by the same actor looked like this:

it's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, he looks so skinny.

and if we go even further back: look at what the womanizer character Face from the A-team looked like in the 80s show vs the 2010 movie reboot:

maybe the difference isn't that big but it really startled me when I watched that movie for the first time. in my mind there was no reason why Face should be particularly muscular since he is the charming one not the one known for being particularly strong.

if we go even further back, look at the charmin womanizer character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H from the 70's.

I know he's a doctor and there is no reason for him to be ripped but I got the feeling if they did the show now, he would be.

I don't know what my point really is I'm just saying I got a bit nostalgic when watching these men. I cannot be the only one who'd rather see more of this:

than this:

also, as a sidenote: Russell Crowe gained a lot of weight for the nice guys and he is a fucking powerhouse in that film, like, when he punches someone, you really feel it because of the weight that is behind it and the shere mass of his body.

(even if this may look different, he's about to break Ryan Gosling's character's arm. I couldn't find a gif of him punching someone but I swear it looks painfull as hell.)

so, in short: can we get big, heavy action guys back? cause I'm tired of seeing these skinny, despite being muscular dudes who look dehydrated as hell and on steroids.

and can we stop making characters ripped just for the sake of it? cause I'd rather cuddle with a guy looking like Hawkeye than one looking like Face from the new A-team movie.