Sometimes women have trouble sharing their achievements or expressing pride in what they’ve done. Serena Williams just became the winningest tennis player in history with a major milestone and she’s not afraid to tell the world.
Gifs: Justi FloriSeri
A dog is only a part of your life but you’re a dog’s entire life
Literally if you meet a man and he says something like, ‘I’m the nicest guy you’ll meet…until you piss me off’ men, run. Cut him off immediately
Let it commence
This false-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. The view was produced by space imaging enthusiast Kevin M. Gill, who also happens to be an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The view was made using images taken by Cassini’s wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
Filters like these, which are sensitive to absorption and scattering of sunlight by methane in Saturn’s atmosphere, have been useful throughout Cassini’s mission for determining the structure and depth of cloud features in the atmosphere.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Kevin M. Gill
things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.
windycityteacher
WOAH WHAT?
I’d always wondered why some adjective choices sounded out of order until they were reshuffled, but I couldn’t figure out a holistic rule for it.
And may have inadvertently created a warp drive in the process.
NASA scientists have reported that they’ve successfully tested an engine called the electromagnetic propulsion drive, or the EM Drive, in a vacuum that replicates space. The EM Drive experimental system could take humans to Mars in just 70 days without the need for rocket fuel, and it’s no exaggeration to say that this could change everything.
But before we get too excited (who are we kidding, we’re already freaking out), it’s important to note that these results haven’t been replicated or verified by peer review, so there’s a chance there’s been some kind of error. But so far, despite a thorough attempt to poke holes in the results, the engine seems to hold up.
Well, I for one am getting my hopes up.
Warp factor SCHWING.
“Be waiting out front of the HAB, Watney, we’re not fucking waiting for you to get dressed. Places to be.”
Guys. Guys. I’ve been following this story for a while now and you don’t get it. Some guy made this and was like “well hi I made a thing and it shouldn’t go but it goes.”
And the science community was like okay that… there’s no way that works.
Then they tested it theoretically and it worked.
Then NASA was like okay but technically this breaks one of Newton’s laws so even if it theoretically goes it won’t like, actually go. So they built it and tested it more and it works.
So what we have now is the scientific community slowly cautiously freaking out because this GODDAMN EM DRIVE breaks the RULES OF PHYSICS but every time we test it, it FUCKING WORKS.
How cool is this????
Every time we’ve found something “broken” that functions, it means something is wrong with our understanding of reality. The next step is to figure out what, figure out what’s true, and open up a plethora of new scientific discoveries.
*nerdy joy dance*
defenestration-committee
I am literally shrieking right now and will not stop ever
A man who has traveled to 217 countries in the world on visiting Iran
http://highlife.ba.com/articles/lessons-learned-from-travelling-to-217-countries/
So I’m reading a collection of interviews from a book called African-American Screenwriters Now, published in 1996. Yvette-Lee Bowser, who’s the creator of Living Single, revealed the following in her interview:
“To produce a positive, hilarious show about young African Americans trying to make it. That was my primary goal. It’s important to me that the show came from a positive place, and that it depicts us loving each other in our way. It must also be honest to who we are. That it’s funny is also critical. [Laughter] After all, we are doing a situation comedy. […]
I did about seven drafts of this show before the network gave a green light to the pilot. I just reworked and reworked and reworked. I thought that I could not write it again without hearing the actors read the words. I just couldn’t do it again.
There was a tremendous battle getting the show to the point where it was actually produced. They were able to read the script and kind of feel the characters, but not really, because the show is different. The show feels different, and I think it reads differently from a lot of other shows.
They wanted a show about black women, but I think they were looking for more hands-on-hips, finger-popping, gum-snapping women, and that wasn’t quite what they got. I think that, to some degree, they were a little intimidated by some of the characters and how strong they were. They actually asked me to get rid of one of the characters, and I really had to stand my ground.
Having gone through all of those battles to get the pilot produced, the show’s immediate success was just that much sweeter. I felt it in my heart. It was important enough to me that I felt that the camaraderie these people have was worth putting on paper. I thought there must be someone else out there who feels the way I do about their friends. And apparently there are a lot of people who feel that way, because there are a lot of copycat shows. People have referred to Friends as the original, but we all know that Living Single was here first.”
And we all know which character the network wanted to axe…
SN: All the interviewees unsurprisingly reveal the same things: “They felt my film/show would fail because it was too different, too smart.” “They wanted to water it down/cut this out.” “I had to fight to get it produced.” “It took years to get it produced.”
‘Quantum Field X3’ at the Guggenheim Bilbao by Hiro Yamagata (2003-4)
When we forget to turn off a light:
C’est pas Versailles ici !
Hey, we’re not in Versailles !
When we stand between them and something they want to see:
Et ton père, il est vitrier ?
Is your father a glazier?
When you are hungry but the dinner is not ready yet
Ben mange ta main et garde l’autre pour demain !
Well, eat your hand and save the other one for tomorrow !
What’s for dinner ?
Des caillous.
Pebbles.
When you lie too obviously :
Et mon cul c’est du poulet.
And my ass is made of chicken.
When you are in a bad mood :
Mange des carottes, ça rend aimable.
Eat some carrots, you’ll be nicer
When you are throwing a tantrum :
Pleure un coup, tu pisseras moins.
Go on and cry, you’ll piss less.
And the world wonders why we are so sassy.
im norwegian and my family say the glacier thing all the time
No this is not a Renaissance painting. Just Nicki Minaj slaying a white carpet
No joke I even see the golden spiral
Yeah, it starts right in the bobbies
Light Cube Factory by A.L.X. // Tokyo, Japan
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