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— Sylvia Plath

*The first leaf of autumn falls*

Me:

I can’t handle this 🥺

It looks like he’s having the time of his life. Now if only Patrick Swayze were here…

star trek tos fight scenes are a national treasure, usually just badly timed punches and rolling over tables ft kirk and his tiddies but sometimes we get absolute gems like

theyre dancing x

(gif by scruffydeanw)

I AM LAUGHING WAY TOO MUCH AT THIS SO ENJOY

Captain James T Kirk

The T stands for

Tiddy grab

"Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit." ― Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Science humour!

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There’s a growing anti-intellectual strain that is growing in this country. It may be the beginning of the end of our informed democracy. In a free society, you can and should think whatever you want. If you want to think the Earth is flat, go right ahead. But if you think the Earth is flat and you have influence over others, as would successful rappers or even presidential candidates, then being wrong becomes being harmful to the health, the wealth and the security of our citizenry.”

—

Neil deGrasse Tyson responding to rapper B.o.B. regarding his Flat Earth, conspiracy-theory propaganda rant via Twitter (see it via the Daily Show here)

““The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.””

— Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via 20somethingandstilllost)

NDT layin it on thick today.

Carl Sagan's First Book on Stars

When Carl was five years old, he wondered about the stars: what were they? Unsatisfied with the answers he got from his friends and from adults he knew, Carl went to the library and asked for a book about stars. The librarian handed him … a book on celebrities! In Keay Davidson’s Carl Sagan: A Life, Carl explained how his fascination with the cosmos began:

“I gave it back to her and said, “This wasn’t the kind of stars I had in mind.” She thought this was hilarious, which humiliated me further. She then went and got the right kind of book. I took it—a simple kid’s book. I sat down on a little chair—a pint-sized chair—and turned the pages until I came to the answer.

And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light…. And while I didn’t know the [inverse] square law of light propagation or anything like that, still, it was clear to me that you would have to move that Sun enormously far away, further away than Brooklyn [for the stars to appears as dots of light]….

The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. [It was] kind of a religious experience. [There] was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.”

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/09/10-neat-facts-about-carl-sagan/

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

— Carl Sagan

“Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science. There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”

— Carl Sagan (via universal-wanderer)

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.”

— Carl Sagan (via lady-eboshi)

I’d like to see an oak tree with hair this nice!

“Science is not only a disciple of reason but , also , one of romance and passion . ”

-Stephen Hawking

Update: I accidentally opened a portal to hell. Well, this is my life now.

the canterbury tales (c. 1400) - geoffrey chaucer

“hot wench summer”

Why are you fat?

cause everytime i fuck your dad he makes me a sandwich

I’m in love with the great British bake off