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jamestheghostdad:

lewisaur:

The College emblem prior to the merger with Bedford College. #rhul #royalholloway #universityoflondon

I’m tryna figure out what the Latin is saying but I’m not sure what a first person plural future passive indicative even means.

“in the name of our god we shall be made great” is the most literal

lewisaur:

The College emblem prior to the merger with Bedford College. #rhul #royalholloway #universityoflondon

I’m tryna figure out what the Latin is saying but I’m not sure what a first person plural future passive indicative even means.

“in the name of our god we shall be made great” is the most literal

The Fault In Our Stars Quotes

~ John Green

I usually don’t like these because they attribute quotes to authors and also pick them out of context, but this is cute

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jamestheghostdad:

thebrainscoop:

Here I am assisting in skinning a giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) with mammal prep staff at the Chicago Field Museum back in April. We made bets on how much we thought this large male weighed - estimates were anywhere from 52-78lbs. Actual weight was 82lbs (37kg), if I remember correctly. The mammal prep lab manager, Anna, did the majority of the work on this specimen, but was nice enough to let me jump in at the end and help out. Bottom picture is me cutting around the gonads.

Before you ask - I’m not wearing gloves because in many circumstances it’s arguably safer. It allows you to get a much better grip on the specimen, which gives you more control over your instruments and the specimen, and no, I’m not really concerned with contracting some kind of awful disease if I had accidentally cut myself. Wearing gloves and similar precautions are taken more seriously when dealing with primate specimens. I’m not saying that it’s always advisable to go in bare-handed, just that some institutions approach procedures differently.

Thanks to Marisol Cowan for the photos!

Obviously I can’t smell it, but the specimen looks relatively fresh anyway. Freshness probably figures in when considering whether or not to go in bare handed. It would for me, anyway.

fucking anteaters

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mappleton:

Illuminating Quotes, Visualised – Part XXIII

I’ve been waiting to post this one for a while.

In 2005 David Foster Wallace gave A commencement speech at Kenyon College that has since been published into a small, brief and beautiful book entitled This is Water. It is suffice to say I treat nearly everything David Foster Wallace wrote as closer to Truth than anything a mechanism of science could produce. His sincere reflections on how we are unable to see what we are constantly submerged in, that which should be blatantly obvious, are beautifully insightful.

I venture to say that of all the troves of quotations I horde, this is my most loved;

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes ‘What the hell is water?’ “

saying-nothing:

harryandthepotters:

cantallcomeandgobytardis:

There’s just one thing I want to do, I want to make pancakes with you.

All of the sudden I remembered that this song exists, so I googled harry and the potters pancakes and apparently this is a video that exists and Im cry, this should be mandatory viewing for all humans

Gotta bring this song back!

So, if you ever question why I love this community…here you go.

i’m in this video.

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus (via ceylans)

i don’t know if i buy that camus said this? (all google results are tumblr and nowhere else) but solitude yes is a restorative and vital thing sometimes

(via valerie2776)

yeah it doesn’t really seem that Camus to me but it’s nice in any case

(via thewindinmyheart)

so there are other fake quoters out there besides me!

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