Brazilian cherries aren’t related to common cherries at all! They look like this and taste rather sour:
Also, if you’re not used to them, Brazilian grapetrees look really alien:
The fruit is formed in the trunk, not the branches!
What do we say when we are in a Summer School and we are living hard the impostor syndrome life?
We say: I'm gonna take these much-smarter-than-me people and asked them a fuckton of questions. And I won't stop asking until I have absorbed all their knowledge and they've forgotten their own name.
i cannot emphasize enough how tremendously proud hannah gadsby should be of what she has created and released into this world.
Time: “She knows action on climate change won’t happen instantly, but she’s prepared to dedicate years to this cause, even if life in the public eye has its drawbacks.
“When I grow up, I want to be able to look back and say that I did everything I could,” she says. “I think that more people should feel like that.””
This is what a tiny rock hitting your naked spaceship does. I could hear the ricochets. That’s why the Space Station has armour. http://bit.ly/2pPb7hJ
when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest
Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future
Edward Lorenz
Holy shit
Small and angry.PhD student. Mathematics. Slow person. Side blog, follow with @talrg.
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