I love my mathematician girlfriend, but she *did* just try to tell me an eggplant can be assumed to be spherical when deciding how to cut it for stir fry.
A Japanese eggplant.

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I love my mathematician girlfriend, but she *did* just try to tell me an eggplant can be assumed to be spherical when deciding how to cut it for stir fry.
A Japanese eggplant.
B referred to the trend where kids these days wear a bunch of different clashing patterns all at once as ‘queer dazzle camouflage’ and I can’t stop laughing about it.
Like, 'Am I 6’ tall and standing far from you, or 5'5" and right here?? You can’t tell!'
Dying.
Look. You can show up at my house at 2 am to have loud sex with my partner, but if you tell me my cat is precious, we’re gonna be friends.
Ok last one for a while
Me: Well, I told my friend we were dating already? But not like, I mean not that i had any expectation, i was just, like, 'we've already been on a couple of dates, and we have another planned in the future, so like, at least in between the two we're dating by the intermediate value theorem?'
B: Dork. You still gotta prove there's no discontinuities.
(Paraphrased but omg)
Today in ‘let’s hope [girlfriend] and I are as much alike as I think,’ why *not* put The Mountain Goats 'No Children’ on a Valentine’s mixtape?
So slipping No Children into the middle of a Valentine’s mix for someone you just met is in fact a great idea.
a star trek series which follows the feminist movement on ferenginar, and ends with the beginnings of a socialist revolution
a follow up film which shows the rise of communism on ferenginar. the first scene is quark crying over his latinum.
Katy made me promise to post the recipe for this, THE MOST AMAZING PIE IN THE WORLD, a million years ago and I never did because I’m lazy. This is kind of a fall thing I guess but I’m pretty sure it’ll be real good at any time.
SAVORY APPLE PIE
Ingredients:
Pie crust - I made a pâte brisee crust using this recipe. It was perfect and you should do it too, but you could probably also substitute a different pie crust or even the pre-made ones.
Three large baking apples - mine were Jonagold
Brie cheese
2 large-ish onions, white or yellow probably
A couple tablespoons olive oil
2-3 tablespoons butter
A small handful of sage leaves
A sprig of rosemary
A sprinkling of nutmeg
Directions:
Peel your onions, cut them in half, and slice them up. Put them in a skillet with a drizzle of olive oil over medium heat. Cook them for an hour, stirring only occasionally, until they become soft and brown and start smelling incredible. If they start to dry out while they’re cooking, add a little water to keep them soft. You can also sprinkle in some salt and sugar. A more thorough explanation is here.
Make your pie crust. You’ll need a crust for the bottom and a crust to go over the top. Put the bottom pie crust in a pie plate/pan. You don’t need to grease the pan since there’s so much butter in the crust.
Brown the butter. I’ve explained this in recipes before, but you’re basically putting the butter in a skillet over medium heat until it turns brown and starts smelling nutty. While it’s browning, throw in a few of the sage and rosemary leaves. For a more detailed explanation of browning butter, check my recipe for pumpkin gnocchi.
Peel your apples and cut them into fairly thin slices. Put a layer of apple slices into your bottom crust.
Cut up the brie into thin slices. Put a layer of brie slices on top of the apple layer.
Periodically tear up a few of the sage leaves and some rosemary and layer them into the pie. Sprinkle in a little bit of nutmeg. Periodically drizzle some of the browned butter over the pie ingredients.
Continue layering apple slices/brie slices/herbs/browned butter. When the pie is about half full, spread your nice brown caramelized onions on top of your layers of ingredients.
Finish layering your remaining apple slices/brie slices/herbs/browned butter on top of the caramelized onions.
Put the top crust on. Make sure to make a few slits in the top. (You can also do the fancy criss-cross thing if you want.)
Bake at 400 for an hour-ish. You’ll know it’s done when you can see the sides of the pie starting to bubble and the crust is a nice golden brown.
Serve and eat! Serve this pie to people you want to impress but also save a lot for yourself because it’s delicious and you will want to bake 5 more of them immediately.
i should mention that this is one of the pies i made today (the other is blackberry apple). if it turns out good i want to make it again for thanksgiving :3 thank you olivia!!!
THIS PIE IS SO AMAZING
im glad this pie is getting the accolades it deserves and i hope olivia makes it for me again this sunday friendsgiving. i helped her make two a few weeks ago and she took it to her werk potluck and those horrible ppl DIDNT EAT IT so we all ate even more pie. truly olivia is good
This was SO GOOD, I’ve made it twice. First time I used too much brie and not enough rosemary and sage; you can use kind of a lot of fresh rosemary and sage.
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GET ALL YOUR BRO AT THE BROTIQUE BRUH.
What fresh hell is this?
Biologists Induce Flatworms to Grow Heads and Brains of Other Species
Biologists at Tufts University have succeeded in inducing one species of flatworm to grow heads and brains characteristic of another species of flatworm without altering genomic sequence. The work reveals physiological circuits as a new kind of epigenetics - information existing outside of genomic sequence - that determines large-scale anatomy.
The finding that head shape is not hard-wired by the genome but can be overridden by manipulating electrical synapses in the body suggests that differences in species could be determined in part by the activity of bioelectrical networks. The discovery could help improve understanding of birth defects and regeneration by revealing a new pathway for controlling complex pattern formation. It has long been known that neural networks exploit bioelectric synapses to store and re-write information in the brain.
The findings are detailed in the cover story of the November 2015 edition of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, appearing online Nov. 24.
Tufts biologists induced one species of flatworm – G. dorotocephala, top left – to grow heads and brains characteristic of other species of flatworm, top row, without altering genomic sequence. Examples of the outcomes can be seen in the bottom row of the image. Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University.
1) this is rad, but just as importantly, 2) look at their doofy lil’ faces!!
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Here's our first look at Happy Birthday, Marsha!, a short film about Stonewall activist Marsha P. Johnson, plus exclusive behind-the-scenes photos.
After protests over the erasure of trans women of color from Robert Emmerich’s Stonewall, expectations are high for the short film Happy Birthday, Marsha!, about trans activist Marsha P. Johnson. If the trailer’s any indication, this movie will slay!
Marsha features acclaimed Tangerine star Mya Taylor in the title role.
The trailer shows off a sumptuous, hyper-real 60’s aesthetic.
The film also features trans actresses Eve Lindley, Cherno Biko, and Rios O’Leary-Tagiuri.
There’s even a glimpse of Marsha P. Johnson herself in the trailer!
That’s right — it’s gonna be legendary.
BuzzFeed News caught up with filmmakers Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, who showed us some wonderful exclusive images from the making of the movie.
Gossett told BuzzFeed News: “The pictures were all taken during the shooting of our ‘Hotel Dixie’ scene in which Marsha, Sylvia, Bambi and Andorra are hanging out in a hotel room they share.The scene is a flashback to 1965 when Sylvia is new to their scene and to sex work. Marsha is acting a as a sort of mentor to Sylvia.”
Commenting on the rich look of the film, Gossett notes: “We wanted the movie to reflect Marsha’s beauty. She wasn’t really fancy but she was fanciful, and when we talk about aesthetics it’s about the beauty of how she relates to other people.”
Wortzel adds: “Frequently people expect that if a film is political it’s not going to be beautiful. It was really important for us to make a film that was deeply political and personal in many ways but also gorgeous to look at.”
Happy Birthday Marsha is currently raising funds on Indiegogo, to make sure the film will be as amazing and beautiful as possible.
WE DID IT
Fuck yes! It’s about damn time!
Holy shit this is stunning
“Behold the Petri ditch in which I grow my fucks…” [x]
This is the kind of science you need, right @unspellable?
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i think my new selfie technique is to make myself look like the twins in the shining
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MAN SIZE KLEENEX FOR MY MALE TEARS
Tears are not the bodily fluid that came to mind when I saw special kleenex marketed at men…
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I was inspired by several articles about the Tampon Tax recently and some of the protests against the categorization of tampons as “luxury items,” so I made this up. It’s funny because it’s true.
Tampons are a “luxury item”
Once I worked as an intern in the state capital. One of the representatives I worked for was this middle-aged guy. And he hated the tampon and napkin machines in the women’s bathrooms. Hated them. He insisted that they weren’t necessary.
I found out why after I’d been working there, oh, about a month. My period started suddenly, as it sometimes does, and I asked to excuse myself to go to the ladies’ room. He wanted to know why. I told him.
He started ranting about how lazy women were. How we wasted time. How we were so careless and unhygenic, and that there was no call for that. He finished by telling me that I certainly was NOT going to the ladies’ room and that I was just going to sit there and work. He finished this off with a decisive nod, as if I’d just been told and there could be no possible argument.
“If I don’t go,” I said in an overly patient tone, “the blood is going to soak through my pants, stain my new skirt that I just bought, and possibly get on this chair I’m sitting in. I need something to soak up the blood. That’s why I need to go to the bathroom.”
His face turned oatmeal-gray; an expression of pure horror spread across his face. He leaned forward and whispered, “Wait, you mean that if you don’t go, you’ll just keep on bleeding? I thought that women could turn it off any time that they wanted!”
I thought, You have got to be kidding.
Several horrified whispers later, I learned that he wasn’t. He actually thought a) that women could shut down the menstrual cycle at will, b) that we essentially picked a week per month to spend more time in the bathroom, i.e. to goof off, and c) that napkins and tampons were sex toys paid for by Health and Human Services. I didn’t know the term then, but he believed that tampons were dildos. Which was why he and a good number of his friends considered them luxuries.
And that’s how, at twenty, I had to give a talk on menstruation to a middle-aged married state representative who was one of my bosses. American politics, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh my GOD