Jupiter's Auroras Animation

remember in fleabag when claire and fleabag were sitting at the cemetery and claire said "I can't wait to be old" like i don't know why but that line fundamentally changed my brain chemistry. she said it so tiredly but at the same time how fucking revolutionary is it to see someone on television express anything other than distaste for getting older, especially a woman? claire is my fucking favorite

kinda gay to be scientists in a lab. what do you mean you're "experimenting" with your "partner"?

my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!

as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.

Not a particle, not a wave but a secret third thing

informational articles that sound like poetry… source for the first one (sciencing.com)

I remember once sort of sitting down and thinking, ‘I am terribly depressed and this can not go on…’ and then I thought, ‘Well, you can do two things. You can kill yourself or you can get interested in absolutely everything.’ I read the newspaper every day; I read scientific books and geographical books and historical books and books in other languages, as well as the books that professionally I had to read, and suddenly the world became wonderful. 

AS Byatt, 1936-2023 (x)

"what do I do if I have theories" will always be the fucking funniest reddit post

The thing about the philosophy of mathematics is that there's no articulable position so absurd that some influential mathematician hasn't genuinely held to it. You 100% cannot troll these people; you could walk up to a mathematician and say "I'm a radical finitist, I reject the existence of all numbers larger than 1", and not only would that turn out to be a real thing, some maniac has worked out how to construct set theory under its constraints.

By Samantha Cavet