There Is No Such Thing As Veganism As There Are Always Going To Be Microscopic Animals On Everything

Happy Birthday Carl (1934 - 1996). Your legacy continues to shine.

A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.

verklempt

(adjective) An untranslatable Yiddish word, verklempt is described as a person who is too emotional to speak. Verbalizing your emotions or the simple act of uttering a word become a challenge. (via wordsnquotes)

A note to incoming STEM major freshmen and high schoolers who are thinking of pursuing science:

you WILL take more than one STEM class. every single semester. so will every single other STEM major. no one will feel bad if you think you have a hard course load because you’re in more than one STEM class. it’s just not happening.

that being said - here is the god’s honest truth, coming from someone who’s overloaded in courses 4 out of 5 semesters (because they wouldn’t let me do so my first):

1) everything you think you can’t do, you can, and then some

2) everything you think is the hardest thing you’ve experienced, you will overcome, and then face even harder challenges, which you will also overcome

3) if you love what you’re doing - really, truly, love what you’re doing - you’ll be ecstatic that your entire schedule consists of just that. taking only STEM classes is awesome when that’s what you want to devote the rest of your life to

basically what I’m getting at with this is -

If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.

Do math majors graduate with degrees or radians?

Physicists often quote from T. H. White’s epic novel The Once and Future King , where a society of ants declares, ‘Everything not forbidden is compulsory.’ In other words, if there isn’t a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)

Michio Kaku

Just for your info, actually he’s talking (without quoting) about the Gell-Mann’s Totalitarian Principle:

“Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”

(via scienceisbeauty)