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2nd year of uni / chemistry / i love tea and kpop

[i-am-a-fish]

*me at the club, talking over the music*

HAHA WOW THESE LYRICS ARE PRETTY SEXIST HUH

[insomniac-arrest]

I feel like Marie Kondo should be added to the trifecta of public figures like Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross that we collectively consider kindly

like, they don’t know us personally or anything, but you know they want you to succeed, improve, and live your best life

people just gently trying to guide us into treating others well, and being kind to ourselves, and tidying up

[oak23]

Steaming hot take but marie kondo is literally an internationlly recognised expert in her field and white people mocking and questioning her and her methods despite not even being organised at an amateur level is a substantially racist action that seeks to undermine her both as a Japanese person and as a woman and I genuinely expected better from white progressives, especially white women.

[heatherwitch]

I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.

[oldumbylievable]

Hayao Miyazaki has said on numerous occasions that he wants children to know that even when the world seems harsh and life is hard, it is always still worth living, and there is always something beautiful in it.

That mental health boost is intentional and Miyazaki wants you to believe that you should continue to live, even if just for those little things.

[pianoandstudy]

28/12/2018 :: After spending Christmas with my family, I’m getting back to work today preparing for my January exams with some maths and stats work.

[lust-for-strange]

Interactive media before Black mirror

In 1984, during the communist era, the czech television released a tv show called “Rospaky kuchaře Svatopluka”. This series is the first one to interact with its viewers. Everytime the main character has to make an important decision, the choice is written on the tv screen and it says something like “if you want him to…. turn off the lights in your house”. Everytime this series was live, you could see lights being switch off and on in the whole Czech Republic. Then, the tv crew gets the percentage of people voting for the different choices via the power station and the tv show continues, taking into account the choice made by the majority of the viewers. To put it in a nutshell, Netflix are not the first ones to do this.

[catchymemes]

Sick Tiger Cub Gets Rescued From Circus, Makes Incredible Recovery And Finds Love

[deapseelugia]

SHES BLEPPING IN THE LAST PHOTO HELP ME

[chocolatequeennk]

Since so many “tiger rescues” aren’t really rescues at all, I did some googling on this one. 

Good news: This is a legit rescue, carried out by Tigers in America. This organisation rescues tigers from horrible situations like this.

If you’re an animal conservationist looking for an organisation to support, Tigers in America is worth looking into.

[ohrabrivanje]

[studylightly]

122617 | hope everyone had an excellent holiday! and if you don’t celebrate, i hope you’re doing great as well (´ ∀ ` *)

[boneyardchamp]

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

[cannon-fannon]

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

[hollowedskin]

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

[lady-feral]

I will always reblog this.

[shinykari]

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

[roscoerackham]

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).

Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.

If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize. 

[theartofangirling]

some memes I made to express my current frustrations with academia feel free to add your own

[athenastudying-deactivated20220]

i feel this so much, especially in maths. things like “proof: given/obvious/clear” infuriate me. it’s not fucking clear to me okay

[fistinq]

This is the EXACT crisis I’m having in my classes right now. Why are academics such eccentric writers?

[sumrsgirl]

I would love to follow new people (especially if you are not just from USA)

Reblog this post if you are an active studyblr and I’ll follow you back :)

[smaiinerd-blog]

7 dec 18

yesterday i had my organic chemistry exam and it went okay! now i just have one exam left and then i’ll be flying home for the holidays 🥰

[haikyuustuff]

exams are coming up so reblog this man who knows no fear for good luck

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

Ominous positivity

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

You will be okay. You have no choice.

[philosophyblr]

11.8.18: had the library to myself this morning, currently prepping for a tutorial this afternoon :-)

[shirotanis]

we need to talk

i really hope this doesnt go unoticed, as it is actually very important if you like kpop and especially if you are wlw. So a lot of you probably have never heard of Maman (Park Miyoung) and theres a pretty shitty reason behind it. During an interview a few years ago, Maman came out as lesbian but her company tried to pull it off as prank, something that didnt work out, resulting in her getting fired, and all evidence of her coming out, as well as evidence of her being under Jerry was deleted. Maman is the first openly gay idol, a lesbian idol. She is still a singer, though severely underrated despite having sung so many OSTs over the years. Her last work as of now is Obvious Story, a very gay mv and song. A lot of people think Holland is the first openly gay idol which is not true (i truly love holland btw), however I dont put blames on anyone since Maman is not known maybe at all. Please spread this if you can, and maybe watch her mv and tell your friends about it!