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favorite bsg moments → apollo & adama discuss leaving starbuck behind (1.05)

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I'm sorry. David Corenswet brought his dog to set in her own Superman costume?

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how to say "I love you" in x-files [208/?] ⤷ 5.05 — “The Post-Modern Prometheus”

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The Hunger Games has the FUNNIEST arranged marriage of all time btw. Katniss realizes she'll have to marry Peeta and she's obviously upset so Haymitch tries to comfort her by saying "you could do a lot worse" and Katniss is like "well DUH of course I could do worse than Peeta he's the best & handsomest person on the face of the planet but that's not the POINT I want to be able to choose for MYSELF". Then she goes and chooses Peeta anyway lol. Comedy gold I tell you

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reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

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DO YOU LIKE GLEE? AND CATS!

Boy oh boy do I have the stupid blog for you! @glee-furever is where I recap every episode from Glee from memory and add a complementary cat photo. Please clap. I am going to tag some gleetuals now since... please clap. @quizasvivamos @cerriddwenluna @thnxforknowingme @blurglesmurfklaine @special-bc-ur-part-of-it @caramelcoffeeaddict @warblercore and ya know spread the word spread the word!! CATS!!!

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807 (edit).

and the steady rhythmic thump of the boy across the street practicing lacrosse with no one. I may or may not have almost cried over parking today; I may or may not have almost cried over a lot of things today.  Take the habit from the creature and she suffers, Lord, too far from normal and too near.  I am so fucking tired of doing my laundry in interesting times.  I am so fucking tired.  I just need to rest, that’s all.  Just lock me up in glass and let me rest.  I will spit out the apple when the doctor finally comes. I will spit it in his face for coming too damn late.

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Pippin-centric doodles from Book 2 of Fellowship during my recent reread

(comms open!)

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Curious about people's reading preferences, reblogs for sample size are very appreciated ❤️

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A morning that begins gently…

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We've all seen this cartoon a thousand times and I'm always struck by how relevant and accurate it is.

Lemme share my own Quartz moment.

My degrees are in organic chemistry. When I was doing my undergraduate research project, my mom asked me what it was about. My mother is a smart woman but has zero science education.

I thought, okay, start simple. So I drew this:

I opened my mouth to start talking about the project and she stopped me and said:

"What do those lines mean?"

I just sat there mute, utterly wrong-footed. This is a totally reasonable question, but to me, it was like I'd written a word and she'd asked me what the letters meant. This notation (standard molecular drawing notation) is so second nature to me that it's every bit as natural as writing English.

I had not fully appreciated how far I'd need to downshift to explain this. A friend of mine on the same project was asked to give a talk to a group of non-science folks about what we were doing and she made slides with overlays to let them know what the notation means.

The above notation is shorthand for this:

The lines are bonds. The single line is a single bond, the double line is a double bond (well...in benzene technically each bond is 1.5 bonds but this is the usual way it's drawn even though it's not really accurate). Each corner is a carbon atom. We don't draw the carbon atoms unless we're calling attention to them, and we leave off the hydrogens entirely unless they're significant for some reason, they're just understood to be there.

None of this would be obvious to someone who's never taken chemistry. But I had to remind myself of this, and my mom's question knocked me for a loop for a second.

We got it sorted out.

This really becomes an issue when there are news events having to do with science. Vaccines come to mind. People have HEARD of DNA, but they've barely heard of RNA, and even if they have, most don't understand it, or what it does or what it means. There was a lot of effort put into making analogies and cartoons and other tools to help explain how an mRNA vaccine works, but too many people still hear it and think SCARY.

And don't get me started on those "if you can't pronounce the ingredients, don't eat it" idiots with their naturalistic fallacies and woo-woo pseudoscientific snake oil bullshit YES I TAKE IT PERSONALLY.

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sometimes i remember that poll that was like “do you watch reality tv” and most tumblr users said no because i know that’s not true… i need y’all to tell me what your favorite reality tv show is (or was if you haven’t watched it in awhile)

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buying books and reading books are sadly two different hobbies