Cormac McCarthy, what a line

we as a society need to go back to giving Gore Verbinski blank checks to make gorgeous and batshit insane blockbusters

not really gonna sugarcoat it; I straight up don’t think you’re qualified to be a reviewer if you fundamentally misunderstand Frankenstein to this degree Like, that’s the book, bud. Thats how it all happens in *one of the most famous works of literary fiction in human history*

Ayer recibí la Medalla Alfonso Caso de la UNAM por mi desempeño en el Doctorado en Astrofísica en el IRyA UNAM Campus Morelia 📡 . Una trayectoria académica que inició en Guatemala 🇬🇹, pasó por México 🇲🇽, Chile 🇨🇱, y ahora por Inglaterra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Nuevos retos vienen por delante 📡📡🪐.

It's so much easier to connect with a politician when their ads are just them talking to you vs. fancy voiceovers and footage of "everyday people" and campaign rallies. The Dems should learn from this

35 years ago or so Chief Justice Rehnquist was asked why the Justices were so opaque and didn't do press conferences and stuff. His response was something like "Opaque? We write down the reasons for every major action we take! Does the President do that?"

this poll is so beautiful to me … the median american Shall come to understand tradeoffs in my lifetime

We have mounting evidence that the move away from phonics education (especially in Blue states) has been an abject policy failure & states like Mississippi have shown us that there’s a way to fix these errors. Not doing so out of ideological purity is choosing to fail our kids

Vance is lying his ass off about the politics but it's worth confronting the principle: I don't want to live in a society where doctors are forced to let people just die outside of the ER because they're undocumented and "can't even speak English." That's fucking barbaric

Evergreen

The fact that hotter things are represented by a larger number and colder things are represented by a smaller number is one of those things that’s totally arbitrary that over time people come to think of as conceptually essential

A missing important point in this discussion is the Anders Celsius was an astronomer and thus smaller number = bigger physical quantity was perfectly natural

What is the point of the “reminder?” From her interviews and continued involvement, it’s clear she remains one of the most shrewd political operatives in the Democratic Party and an asset to the cause

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend Gabriel C. Brown transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇

Incidentally, this is what trying to keep cinema alive actually looks like.

Nacogdoches, TX Natchitoches, LA Take a guess at how you pronounce these cities, then go look it up.

Severin Hacker the point of a PhD is not to get a PhD, it’s to do a PhD

hang it in the smithsonian ☝🏿

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Depends strongly on who this academic astrophysicist is. Some out there have been publishing extremely questionable analyses and claiming biosignatures…