If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you’re curious, nothing is a chore; it’s automatic – you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.
Tony Robbins (via lazyyogi)
I may be a coward but I have this lovely intact eggshell to keep on my desk
you are cowards and natural selection is coming for you
i want to play an rpg where these are my four stats
Giving the survival mechanisms of animals to plants! It nears apotheosis!
This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of light. It even likes to play with humans.
Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.
The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, it’s purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”
I don’t care if it’s silly. I want one.
Reasons niobium should be the official nonbinary element:
Its atomic symbol is Nb
It’s a transition metal
Shiny
Comes in many colors, including yellow, purple, black, and white
After 20 years of painstaking excavation, cleaning, and reassembling, the virtually intact skeleton of the Australopithecus hominid known as Little Foot has been revealed to the world.
Bones from the 3.67-million-year-old human ancestor were first identified in the 1990s within the Sterkfontein caves northwest of Johannesburg, in South Africa. Little Foot represents the most complete Australopithecus ever discovered.
“So, like the dolphin, what you really want to do is maximise the fish returns on your dead seagull investment.”
“Don’t forget, breakfast is never just breakfast. Your avocado is never just an avocado.”
All the best stories start with “so I was hanging around with some Armenians in Moscow…”
‘How to not get arrested during field work’ is a vital anthropologist skill.
“Once you create a state it’s really hard to get rid of.”
Accusations of witchcraft roll downhill.
“You don’t want a continual pattern of recessions and depressions, because then your citizens start reading Marx, and you don’t want your citizens reading Marx, because then bad things happen to you.”
Professor: “And what did Columbus bring with him when he set off to sail to India?” Student: “Diseases?”
Good luck on your exams everyone, we’ve almost made it!
What is America’s obsession with Bill Nye the Science Guy I once said in class that I had never seen it and this girl yelled YOU’VE NEVER WATCHED BILL NYE and in 5 seconds flat half the class was screaming HOW COULD YOU HAVE NEVER WATCHED BILL NYE while the other half chanted BILL BILL BILL BILL
Once I was made of stardust. Now I am made of flesh and I can experience our agreed-upon reality and said reality is exciting and beautiful and terrifying and full of interesting things to compile on a blog! / 27 / ENTP / they-them / Divination Wizard / B.E.y.O.N.D. department of Research and Development / scientist / science enthusiast / [fantasyd20 character]
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