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“Truthfully? My first reaction is to say I don’t care what people think. If women...”
– Gail Simone (via cock-juggling-thundercunt)
Let geek girls geek.
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“Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous...”
– This was a — wait for it — Koch-funded study that finally reached the same conclusion as 97 percent of the scientific community.
Actually, it even found the the current findings underestimatedthe rate of warming.
Remember that time the Koch brothers funded a study to disprove man-made climate...
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“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the...”
– Abraham Flexner, American educator in “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, Harper’s 1939
More on of the importance of making time for abstract, creative thought in today’s efficiency-obsessed education system at Brain Pickings. (via jtotheizzoe)
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Empirical Research
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“What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate...”
– Gloria Steinem (via waityouguys)
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“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood...”
– Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life : NPR (via nprfreshair)
“Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a...”
– Joss Whedon (via antisocial-socialist) 