February 2012
49 posts
If Common Sense Was Used in Government and the...
Citizen: I don't believe in abortion.
Government: Then don't get one.
Citizen: I don't believe in birth control.
Government: You don't have to use it.
Citizen: I think gay marriage is a sin.
Government: Don't marry the same sex then.
Citizen: I want my kids to learn about creationism.
Government: Take them to church.
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
– Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via moonsafaris)
“You have probably never heard of British-born Cecilia H. Payne (later Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin), who in 1923 came to the United States to study stellar...
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“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral” (source: npr)
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kavinsky-chan:
people who use 17468552 reaction gifs in a row
all of the men i admire are very handsome.
Watchsoadatnewschool:
Upsetting.
why is he wearing brown make-up? what was the point of that? to see who would notice? i’ll bet that, if anything, most of them just thought he was doing it as a joke. also, i am…actually unsurprised to hear this sort of ignorance. some of it was still incredibly depressing, though, like the girls asserting that black guys who “act white”...
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Land of Gills and Boners: And then there are... →
charleswallacemurry:
And then there are post-apocalyptic things where humanity (or whatever) has gotten to the point where they aren’t just trying to minimize the fallout, they’re actually recovering, and even if things aren’t the way they were before,
they’ve held strong to humanity’s (or whatever) indomitable…
Mohandas Gandhi: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about…
reblogging because it gave me a bit of hope. go, Awesome Big Bro, and continue with your...
