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Philosophical Rejection Lines For That Dude At The Bar
The Descartes:
The Aristotle:
The Nietzsche:
The Leibniz:
The Socrates:
The John Stuart Mill:
The Democritus:
via: Buzzfeed Books
“37 Slogans For College Majors If They Were Actually Honest”
Accounting: selling your soul for money.
Aerospace Engineering: “it actually is rocket science.”
Anthropology: it’ll get you laid, but it won’t get you paid!
Archeology: if you don’t know what it is, it’s probably ceremonial.
Art History: and you thought making art was pointless!
Astrophysics: “Eh, I’m within an order of magnitude…”
Biochemistry: spend 4 years aspiring to discover the cure for cancer, and the rest of your life manufacturing shampoo.
Chemistry: where alcohol is a solution.
Communications: “we’ll teach you everything you need to know about convincing your friends that your degree is actually meaningful.”
Computer Engineering: tons of chicks, just not very many.
Computer Science (for a straight girl): the odds are good, but the goods are odd.
Creative Writing: because job security is for pussies.
Criminal Justice: we’re here because of Law & Order reruns.
Dental Hygienist: “something to do until you get knocked up.”
Engineering: the art of figuring out which parameters you can safely ignore.
English: so you want to be a teacher.
Film: forks on the left, knives on the right.
Finance: “accounting was too hard.”
Graphic Design: no, we’re not artists. We’re designers; there’s a difference.
History: history may repeat itself, but you definitely will.
Information Technology: let me Google that for you.
Journalism: learn how to construct an argument that no one will listen to.
Latin: because useful is overrated.
Linguistics: studied 17 languages, fluent in none of them.
Marine Biology: “I wanted to play with dolphins, but I’m looking at algae instead.”
Music Performance: if you don’t hate yourself, you’re doing it wrong.
Nursing: learning to save others’ lives while struggling not to take your own.
Philosophy: think about it.
Photography: it’s worth a shot.
Physics: “everything you learned last week was wrong.”
Political Science: your opinion is wrong
Pre-med: “I’ll probably switch majors in two years.”
Psychology: good luck doing anything until you get your Masters.
Speech Pathology: we have a way of making you talk.
Statistics: where everything’s made up, and numbers don’t matter.
Structural Engineering: because architects don’t know what physics is.
Zoology: because you can’t major in kittens.
Memes like with give me weird flash backs to undergrad
Taking the Vital Signs of Mars
Does Mars have quakes? What is the temperature of the Red Planet? How did Mars even form? What can it tell us about how other rocky planets formed?
The Mars InSight lander is scheduled to launch in May 2018 to search for the answers to those questions.
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) will conduct the first thorough “check-up” of Mars in more than 4.5 billion years, measuring its “pulse”, or seismic activity; its temperature; and its “reflexes” (the way the planet wobbles when it is pulled by the Sun and its moons).
How and Why?
By using sophisticated instruments – tools that can measure the vital signs of a planet – InSight will delve deep beneath the surface of Mars, detecting the clues left by the earliest stages of planetary formation.
Previous Mars missions have explored the surface history of the Red Planet. Mars has been less geologically active than Earth, so it retains a more complete record of its history in its core, mantle and crust. InSight will study the sizes, densities and overall structure of the Red Planet’s core, mantle and crust.
The lander will also measure the rate at which heat escapes from the planet’s interior, and provide glimpses into the evolutionary processes of all the rocky planets in our solar system, including Earth, and even those circling other stars!
Send Your Name to Mars!
You can send your name to Mars onboard the InSight lander! The deadline to get your Martian boarding pass is Nov. 1. To submit your name, visit: mars.nasa.gov/syn/insight
Learn more about Mars InSight HERE.
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It’s the year of our lord 2017, can we fucking stop it with the “science side of tumblr” bs already?
You say this like we are non existent
You say that like I’m not a known scientist and tumblr personality
things heating up on the science side of tumblr
“known scientist” ….
“Tumblr personality”…
You sound like me when i am feeling extra cocky.
Most animals have smooth brains. The brains of humans (and a handful of animals we consider pretty intelligent – dolphins, chimps, elephants, pigs) start out smooth in the early days of gestation and get more and more wrinkled through infancy.
A wrinkled brain makes sense - folding means you can have a really big cortex but the different parts of the brain won’t be as far apart. But how do brains become wrinkled? Is it programmed somehow - does some genetic code determine the pattern of folds?
A new study from Harvard says no - its just simple physics. They created a 3D model of a smooth fetal brain and coated it with an elastomer gel “cortex.” When they immersed this brain in a special solution, the gel swelled, mimicking brain growth.
Lo and behold, the brain began to buckle, creating folds similar to size, shape and location of a real brain.
Image credit: Mahadevan Lab/Harvard SEAS
Anonymous asked:
Roses are red Your titriant is pink You failed Go throw your diploma in the sink
adventuresinchemistry answered:
Roses are red
Your titrant is pink
You’re not within 2% of the actual value
You automatically drop a full letter grade on this assignment because achem is a bitch
Roses are red
Your project’s been burned to ash
Go throw your useless diploma in the trash
Fucking failure
Roses are red
The rotor’s unbalanced
The centrifuge explodes
Way to go dumbass
Roses are red
Lab coats are red
Everything’s red
What the fuck did you do?
Roses are red
Your lab coat is blue
You’re lucky is flame resistant
Because the Schlenk flash broke
Roses are red
The sky is blue
Too bad you’re stuck inside
Go write your damn thesis
Roses are red
At least that’s what they tell you
You haven’t seen the sun in three years
And you’ve got at least three more to go
God fucking dammit
Roses are red
The sun is huge
It’s really hot outside
I can’t wear weather appropriate clothing
Oh the joys of the lab
Roses are red
My protein is melting
There goes three days worth of work
Fucking dammit
