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“Synaptic Overload” All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. (Otto Weininger) Inspired by David Lynch’s photo series “Industrial Motives”. Taken at the main station, Cologne (Germany). CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

decided to learn begin learning russian on a whim today...привет?

“The corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is I want to eat.”

— Erica Jong, from “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong (Holt, 1971)

subtitles from Science Gossip, 1900

they need to add two extra hours after ten pm where time doesn't pass so you can do some nice reading before bed

flip the rock to see what’s under it!

🌾🌷🌾🌷🌾🪨🌾🌷🌾🌷🌾

(make sure you put it back after, don’t want to disturb the wildlife.)

citationless behavior

the essential dykes to watch out for

inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

The urge to learn every language and play every instrument and travel the world and live through every historical time period and be a writer and a poet and an actor and

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a stressed adult male protagonist splashing water on his face in the bathroom

nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

i don't feel like talking so i write.

what kind of music do you guys like to listen to when you’re doing physics or mathematics homework? i need recommendations :)

Give in to applied math (learn fancy ways to braid your and your friends' hair)

i said 'explain physics to me like youre in love with me' and after a while of quiet he went 'everything sings'. so i get it now

The thing about the philosophy of mathematics is that there's no articulable position so absurd that some influential mathematician hasn't genuinely held to it. You 100% cannot troll these people; you could walk up to a mathematician and say "I'm a radical finitist, I reject the existence of all numbers larger than 1", and not only would that turn out to be a real thing, some maniac has worked out how to construct set theory under its constraints.

An illustration of a newly detected black-hole merger, whose gravitational-wave signal suggests that at least one of the black holes was misaligned with its orbital motion before merging with its partner.

LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)

My aesthetic is like dark academia but the medieval Iranian / Islamic golden age version

they laced this bread with olive oil and sundried tomatoes

remember in fleabag when claire and fleabag were sitting at the cemetery and claire said "I can't wait to be old" like i don't know why but that line fundamentally changed my brain chemistry. she said it so tiredly but at the same time how fucking revolutionary is it to see someone on television express anything other than distaste for getting older, especially a woman? claire is my fucking favorite

so i was looking up the System Source Computer Musuem and apparently they have a VIRTUAL TOUR !!! and when I say I spent a good deal of time freaking out and sending screenshots of this thing to my friends . my goodness

The Round City of Baghdad is the original core of Baghdad, built by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur in 762–766

real science.

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

Sweet dreams in moonlight  -    Ksenya Istomina,

Russian, b. 1991   -

Oil on canvas ,   100 x  80 cm.

Jupiter's auroras animation

Images: ESA/Hubble

"The Earth is listening" painting by Mikhail Pyaskovsky, USSR, 1988.