Nothing Beats The Power I Feel Doing My Physics Homework On A Whiteboard In The Library 😈

Wool & lana

The word lana (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English wool. For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other. Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana. The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.

"Mo Soul" Player Playlist 8 January

Sofa Surfers - Can I Get A Witness (Thievery Corporation Mix)

Jitwam - Temptations

Justin Stanton - What Do You Want

Madison McFerrin - Try

Nick Waterhouse - This Is A Game

Robert Glasper Feat. Yebba - Fuck Yo Feelings

Sugaray Rayford - You and I

Steve Lacy - Playground

The Olympians - Sirens Of Jupiter

Tom Glide Feat. Shylah Vaughn - Soul Life

Timewarp Inc Feat. Georges Perin - Realistic

Theo Croker - Realize

Ash Walker Feat. Laville - Under The Sun

Javier Santiago - Phoenix

The Unbelievable Two - Super Fonque

If you really want to enjoy music and help musicians and bands, buy their lp’s or cd’s and don’t download mp3 formats. There is nothing like good quality sound!!!

(Angel Lo Verde / Mo Soul)

I need to stop watching Jake and Amir while eating

Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

Lately people on AO3 have been correcting my grammar but like… I’m a physics major… it’s a miracle I’m even literate

Autism Speaks Canada is "concluding its operations" on January 31st 2025!

Physicists need to be edgier about their discipline. Like they can say “You would never understand” and “It’s my fate to carry the secrets of the world”. Maybe then the physics majors would feel better.

Trying to do research for writing is so dumb I’m literally on the Wikipedia page for rabbit

As a woman in STEM, it really bugs me how people (especially guys) will refuse to believe you if you say that you’re not brilliant in your field/subjects. We have this norm fashioned in popular media that says when a woman pops up where she doesn’t traditionally “belong,” it’s because she had to strong-arm her way in by being better than everyone else. But that’s not typically the case. Not in the contexts where it’s being assumed.

I’m an average physics student. That’s reflected in my grades and in the depth of my understanding of the material. I’ve bombed easy tests because I didn’t study enough. I usually score exactly the median average on exams. I’m not brilliant. Really. But everyone I talk to insists that I must be. After all, I’m a woman in a man’s field, right? The only way I could secure a place among the men is by proving myself their superior.

This warped norm is responsible for dissuading a lot of women and girls from pursuing STEM. They think they aren’t smart enough for it, purely because they’re not smarter than their male classmates.

LOVE magdalena bay. like genuine affection. listened to mercurial world for the first time today and it’s so excellent, so far beyond what most pop artists are putting out these days. it’s so refreshing to see an artist with a sort of antitheatrical speaking persona, who prioritizes the album over the individual track, and is asking engaging original artistic question with pop music- to know that it’s still possible in the digital age, especially as commentary ON the digital age, is just such a relief. genuinely makes me believe that pop art/“art-pop” is not dead