Theidlerhour - Bricolage Brain

Still image from Mexican science fiction-noir film La Pantera Negra.

Schrodinger’s Bears

person: it’s too early for halloween stuff it’s over a month away

me: 

Official NASA image showing the evolution of the Space Launch System!

Our universe is in many respects sublime. It prompts wonder but can be daunting — even frightening — in its complexity. Nonetheless, the components fit together in marvelous ways. Art, science, and religion all aim to channel people’s curiosity and enlighten us by pushing the frontiers of our understanding. They promise, in their different ways, to help transcend the narrow confines of individual experience and allow us to enter into — and comprehend — the realm of the sublime.

Cosmologist and particle physicist Lisa Randall on the sublime and the essential differences in how art, science, and religion make sense of the universe – wonderfully mind-expanding read. (via explore-blog)

“We can read even a correct proof, and be completely convinced of the logical steps of the proof, but still not have any understanding of the whole. Like being led, step by step, through a dark forest, but having no idea of the overall route.”

Eugenia Cheng (via cofinaldestination)

Maybe this is why I have trouble reading math textbooks sometimes? I can understand why a step is valid, but I get caught up on, “Wait, where are we going? Where are you taking me?”

(via ryanandmath)

I love mankind…but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via wordsnquotes)

Found this little guy at college today