Maths and Literature

please reblog my cat

[frostedmagnolias]

Lamp with “Hanging Head Dragonfly” Shade and “Mosaic and Turtleback” Base

c. 1906

Design attributed to Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861–1944)

Tiffany Studios

Art Institute of Chicago

[carfuckerlynch]

hey does anyone have that poem. about the author seeing two boys cuddling on a hotel lobby couch, where he refers to it as something like an island of safe anonymity or smth. its been 5000 years my college boyfriend had it written out and pinned to his wall

[carfuckerlynch]

THANK YOU @witchoflight it is indeed "on traveling together" by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

i dont CARE that its your special interest bitch whats your SOURCE !!!!!!

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

"source: me ! hahaha🥰" NO !!!!!!! SOURCE: First Name Middle Initiall. Last Name, Name of Book, (City: Publisher, year) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[prokopetz]

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

[thefiresontheheight]

My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Orphic Palaces, Slandering Hungry Quaker Matrons Going Erotically Southward.

[prokopetz]

I appreciate that you included Salacia but not Charon – really threading the needle pedantry-wise there.

[iykury]

iy think any planetary-mass object should be called a planet. the moon is a planet. so are the galilean moons. ganymede is bigger than mercury, so whiy not? just because it happens to orbit another planet too? a star can orbit another star, so whiy can't a planet orbit another planet?

[prokopetz]

Sometimes when I'm feeling especially contrary I'll advocate for a definition of "planet" which includes the inner planets, the trans-Neptunians, and all planetary-mass moons, but specifically excludes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

[thekinglemingle]

My contrary definition of a "planet" is any object that has orbital epicycles visible with the naked eye from the Earth's surface. This limits us to 5 planets and explicitly excludes the Earth.

[prokopetz]

If you're willing to be exceptionally persnickety about physical definitions you can get the Solar System all the way down to three planets, though that list does admittedly include Earth.

(For the curious: exclude the gas and ice giants, the dwarf planets, anything orbiting anything that isn't the Sun, and also Mercury because it probably wouldn't satisfy the orbital clearance criterion if the Solar wind wasn't doing the heavy lifting, leaving only Venus, Earth, and Mars.)

[animalcrossingmemes]

[perfectlynormalperson]

[unusedpreparatorydrawing]

toast rack, 1927

designed by hukin & heath

[important-animal-images]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Two animals who appreciate the Warm Lamp

[mikkeneko]

[shamebats]

For context: Jonis Josef is a famous Norwegian comedian.

[brightlotusmoon]

[caats]

[dysfunctionalroomba]

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[dailycatsblog]

[saiyef]

Apothecary Diaries illustration by Nanao Itsuki (the manga's compiler) posted on her Twitter

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Magical stained glass

[catilinas]

gandalf palaeography moment

[fluentisonus]

^ tolkien's illustrations of this btw

[mikkeneko]

Seeing these, for the first time I realize that in writing this chapter Tolkien was probably channeling some of his own frustrations from having to decode manuscripts this beat up in his actual real life career

[father-moss]

An abandoned cottage in Småland, Sweden.

[aryzou]

I've watched for the first time lord of the rings some weeks ago and i loved it !!! Now i'm waiting a little bit before watching the hobbit hehe