One Time I Was In New York City And I Walked Into A Random Store At 7pm And I Saw Someone That Looked

Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts

Does anyone else have a grandmother who does that thing where she keeps plastic bags in the dishwasher??? Like, the dishwasher never gets used because it’s a storage space packed full with plastic bags?

I hope im not just a blog you follow but also the only person with 100% correct opinions about the little mermaid

What is going on with the world??

I simply cannot feel sorry for multi-millionaire Scarlett Johansson only earning $20 million instead of $30 million or what the fuck ever because Disney recognised that large parts of the world still can't safely go to the cinema on account of the deadly pandemic and released Black Widow on Disney+ at the same time as in theatres. But then I also support anyone suing Disney for any reason, so you see my dilemma

Yeah my Greek family always says ‘close the lights’ or ‘shut the lights’ instead of ‘turn off the lights’ and I’ve been hearing that since I was little so it honestly sounds perfectly normal to me lol.

In terms of my own blunders: 

for some reason my brain likes French articles (le, la, les) better than any others, so I have this weird thing where I keep trying to use French articles when speaking English or Greek. 

random everyday words that get used a lot, like hello and good morning and thank you, are very easy to mix up for some reason. Sometimes I say ‘merci!’ without even thinking about it in an English-speaking environment or I have to consciously stop myself from saying ‘γεια σασ!’ (hello) to some poor random friend who will have no idea what I’m saying...

English is my first and most fluent language, but there are random words that I learned in greek or french first, and it just sounds really weird to me to say them in English. The most egregious example of this is the word chamomile, like chamomile tea. Saying kam-oh-meel sounds so utterly weird to me that I actually have to pause before I say it out loud in english. The greek word for it is χαμομηλι, pronounced sort of like hah-moh-mee-lee (chamomili). It makes no sense if I try to use the greek pronunciation in the middle of an english sentence, but saying it in english sounds so odd that I sometimes just avoid the word. 

when I forget the french word for something so I switch to english to try and explain to someone who speaks french but knows a little english and we puzzle it out together

there was one time I was trying to ask someone how to say ‘please’ in italian except for some reason I forgot the word please and could only remember it in french and greek (s’il vous plait and παρακαλο, respectively) so I was standing there for a few moments like a nitwit while I tried to remember how to say please in English

On occasion, my Opa will be speaking Dutch to another of our Dutch-speaking family members, then turn to me and start jabbering to me in Dutch, conveniently forgetting that the extent of my Dutch knowledge is like, ten words. (It was particularly funny one time when he did this to my mother, who, being from the Greek side of the family, has absolutely no reason to know any Dutch.)

Also I am strongly reminded of this hilarious post which I originally encountered on @space-australians

im going to have a stroke

Astronaut tweets

- Rachel Platten

I love this quote. Lately, it makes me think of Princess Allura. (weeps)

“less than twelve parsecs!”

I’m a day late for May the Fourth, but I’m gonna share this anyway!

At this point, most of us are fully aware that parsecs are a unit of distance, not time. Star Wars even went ahead and used Solo to retcon Star Wars: A New Hope to reflect that fact. If you’ve watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts on Netflix, you might also know that 1 parsec is equivalent to 3.262 light-years. But what actually is a parsec?

Parsec stands for parallax per arcsecond. 

Astronomers use the observed parallax of celestial objects to determine how far away they are. Parallax refers to how an object in space seems to shift against its background when observed from different points. If you hold your finger out in front of your face and then tilt your head left and then right, you can observe this for yourself.

The angle where the sight line from each point of observation meets the observed object is called the angle of parallax. With that angle, astronomers can use trigonometry to find the distance to the object - usually a star. It’s only really useful if the objects are within a distance of 200 parsecs from Earth, because for objects farther out than that, there’s not really an observable parallactic shift.

I’m pretty sure that this next bit gets taught in grade school at some point, so some of you may recall what an arcsecond is. An arcsecond is 1/60th of an arcminute, and an arcminute is 1/60th of a one-degree angle. So, 1° = 3600 arcseconds.

So, back to that parallax per arcsecond definition. What it means is that:

One parsec is equal to the distance of an object from Earth when the angle of parallax between them is equal to one arcsecond.

And there you have it! That’s what a parsec is! May the Fourth be with you.

Yeah, have any of you read The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter? (It’s the first book in a series called The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club.) The series features a blend of characters (specifically female characters) from 1800s stories such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Rapaccini’s Daughter, Carmilla, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Great God Pan, She, The Jewel of Seven Stars - and possibly a couple others I might have missed, because there’s obviously a lot.

Anyway, these books are a super fun read, and I highly recommend!

Schrodinger’s OC