May 2013
5 posts
I really enjoy the fact that you can basically sum up the ending of Hamlet with this gif
that’s it
that’s the play#fortinbras is like ‘hey guys i thought i’d drop by and talk land dea- WHAT’
“What we preserve of books we read — whether we take notes, or not, and even if we sincerely believe we remember them faithfully — is in truth no more than a few fragments afloat, like so many islands, on an ocean of oblivion.”
—Pierre Bayard, “How to talk about books you haven’t read” (via writedrunk)
Official petition to replace yolo with valar morghulis
April 2013
6 posts
next time you’re feeling like shit
remember the sloths
they don’t do anything ever
and they haven’t gone extinct
you can afford to take a nap
This
Is literally the most uplifting and comforting thing I’ve read all day
Play
1:41
March 2013
4 posts
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
The Foundations
“Build Me Up Buttercup” — The Foundations
February 2013
7 posts
The unsung women of science →
dumbofeather.com
This story reminds me of a frustratingly circular argument I had with a Russian bloke many years ago, about the ability of women to be good scientists. He kept asking me why I couldn’t name as many famous female scientists as I could males and using it to justify his position that women are naturally no good at science. He simply could not see that the lack of women in scientific history might have something to do with sexism in the field. Then he told me that I would never be a proper scientist because I’m a woman. What a dick.
The article also looks at the role of narrative in life and in history. Beautiful.
“You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.”
—
- Rosalind Franklin
Letter to Ellis Franklin, no date, possibly summer 1940 whilst Rosalind was an undergraduate at Cambridge.
(via historic-hbics)
