discipline.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth." -- Dmitri Shostakovich

[unfugbilder]

[this-is-me-irl]

[linguisticmaps]

PARTIAL OR TOTAL VIGESIMAL BASE COUNTING SYSTEM 

Languages that have a 20-based counting system like for example French, in which 80 is literally quatre-vingts (four-twenties)

[beholdingslut]

do you ever get overwhelmed by the amount of history in the world that you don’t know

[gaybriel-faure]

[zauberflotes]

english keyboard: I am the Supreme Typer

french keyboard: *screams and gunshots* alL THE LETTERS ARE IN THE WRONG SPOTS

[musicalshards]

my friend is learning clarinet with the most meme-worthy book ive ever seen

tag urself im a BAD piece! 

[czechs-and-holdings-deactivated]

Can we PLEASE remove the stigma for blue collar work in America?

“You don’t wanna be a garbage collector when you grow up, do you?”

$34,000 a year, no college needed?

God forbid you take an honest job $7,000 above Michigan’s average cost of living line.

“You don’t wanna be a ditch digger.”

Bitch, I was making $15 an hour, post tax, doing exactly that, the fuck is wrong with it? (Other than it was physically exhausting.)

We need to help America, as a whole, understand that college is not, and should not be he only option, and that there is NO SHAME in trade school or even getting a career right out of high school.

I, personally, know plumbers making $80,000+ a year. Better than most 4 year degree workers.

We need plumbers, janitors, truck-drivers, garbage collectors, machinists, to keep this nation running smoothly. And they deserve respect for what they do.

Miss me with your classist bullshit.

[classicalmusichumor]

Adventures in Page-Turning

[eternalglorytochrist-deactivate]

The popcorn function, also known as Thomae’s function, is continuous at all irrational numbers and discontinuous at all rational numbers. The function is Riemann integrable on [0, 1] and its integral over [0, 1] equals 0. (If someone wants proof for this, I ca post it later on.)

Image credit: Smithers888 (Wikimedia Commons). The work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

I just realised that the rest of the world doesn’t know about one of my favourite New Year’s Eve in Germany things:

Angela Merkel getting out her shiny blazers for her speech.

They’re only for New Year’s Eve. The shiny Merkel is very rare and can only be spotted on the 31st of December.

[kimbbearlyold]

why dont humans have a specific noise that means “there are bees here lets leave immediately” why are elephants more advanced than us

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

we do have a specific noise, it sounds like this:

“there are bees here lets leave immediately”

[drag0nair]

te amo?? more like te quila

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

So this is excellent because it’s a play on “tequila” AND a correct conjugation of “quilar” meaning “to fuck”

[mordepv-deactivated20180117]

[fruitsoftheweb]

“Wollen, Weber and Lowry found that the interacting images-both bizarre and non-bizarre-were better recalled. However, bizarreness by itself did not aid memory. A cigar resting on a piano was just as effective as a cigar being smoked by a piano for purposes of improving memory.“

[ostolero]

[zauberflotes]

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

Matthew 6:25-27, 7:6-8, 7:28-29

[pickleston]

[factfiend]

Fun fact: According to Greek legend there was a famous prostitute who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and arguing that it would be a crime against the Gods to destroy something so beautiful. 

Before you ask, yes there are paintings of this. And yes, they’re amazing.

Read more.

[karlosmadera-deactivated2019022]

I love history.

[bipolarbulgogi]

Role models tho.

[blackwoolncrown]

[barcoque]

The gay one

[suzie-guru]

No, but this is one of my absolute favorite bits of history! 

The courtesan named was named Phryne and she was indeed a renowned beauty, and was indeed was put on trial for a capital crime. And yes, the sum of her defense consisted of her stripping in court (helped by her lover/defendant) and asking the jury (all males) if they were prepared to destroy this. 

But this is actually a very interesting case of Values Dissonance - the capital crime she was accused of was blasphemy. In Ancient Greek society, exceptional beauty was a sign of favor from the gods, and they took the idea that beauty indicated goodness with great seriousness. They even called their nobles Kaloi k'Agathoi, “the Beautiful and the Good.” 

So by showing off her great physical beauty, Phryne was being very clever indeed, her argument essentially being “How could I possibly commit blasphemy if the gods have given me this body?“ 

God, I adore history. 

[nationalshitpostingagency]

”If these tits are legit, you must acquit.”