rip mythbusters you would've loved destroying cybertrucks
Forget about torturing your blorbos, putting them through the ringer. I'm putting my blorbo in perfectly ordinary, pleasant situations. Their tortured personality will cause them anguish anyway, making an absolutely mundane scene into the most dramatic, agony filled affair as though the world is ending and it's all their fault
house of leaves is the perfect book for people who love wikipedia but wish it could be scarier
I think math teacher don't focus enough on history. Like, yeah, Abel results on the convergence of series are great and all, but did you know Cauchy hated Abel and is indirectly responsible for his death ?
Galois was a math wizard and died in a duel. But did you know he also was kind of a leftist, got thrown out of École Normale Supérieure because of that, joked about killing Louis Philippe and probably died because of that ?
Gauss is cool, but did you know he was saved by Sophie Germain, discovered at the same time Sophie Germain was a woman, and wrote one of the coolest letter blaming "our customs and prejudices" for not allowing women in math ?
Urysohn's lemma is cool, but did you did you know he tragically died while swimming with Alexandrov ? Oh, also they were both gay and in love. And later Alexandrov had a relation with Kolmogorov
There's tons of other stories, even minor ones (like how Italian mathematicians argued against some notations in vector calculus because they were used by Germans). Focusing only on how "abstract" and "pure" math is, is pedantic. Mathematicians, on the other side, are way funnier and not just lost in their abstract and complicated world
Not a Pokémon person but omg 🥺 this is sooo real guh
evolution dysphoria
glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them
edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.
haters will see you rotating the perfect sphere, yet not visually perceive the rotation due to said sphere’s lack of imperfections, and say you cant rotate a sphere
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