lol, github?
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Renting movies at the local video store… gone forever. It’s odd really. I used to LOVE going to the video store. See ya, I wouldn’t stop by even if you were open.
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Our real first gay president
The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.
The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.
There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.
Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:
I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.
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Simple: they’ve mistaken limerence (a cognative obsession) for something magic they saw in a movie. It always goes away after a while and they think: all the love is gone. There’s also an effect after 3 months and again after 3 years — where if no offspring is produced, it’s time to move on for genetic reasons.
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“This picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth.” - Mathieu S.
cool!
Spacetime
In 1905 Einstein showed that space and time are two parts of a unity: spacetime. In our ordinary life, however, we treat space and time differently, measuring one in meters and the other in seconds. They look so distinct in our experience that it seems obvious to measure them in different ways.
If, however, we accept the Einstein’s conclusion about spacetime, we must deal with space and time on an equal footing. So let’s do it!
How much space is 1 hour of space? What about 2 meters of time? Even if hard to grasp in the beginning, these questions are completely reasonable. There is, in fact, a conversion factor between space and time that physicists use to call c and it’s approximately equal to 299,792,458 meters per second.
Wait a minute, is that the speed of light?
Yes. Actually, there’s no particular reason to call it the speed of light, it may be called the speed of graviton as well. As a matter of fact, it’s the speed at which travels every massless particle.
Keeping in mind this new idea we can see that 1 hour of space is the space that light travels in 1 hour (the space traveled by light in one year is probably more familiar to us and we call it one light-year). Similarly 2 meters of time is the time that takes light to travel 2 meters.
This however doesn’t resolve our whole problem, since we’re still left with human-invented units like seconds and meters upon which the universe surely can’t be founded on. To create a description that works independently of the units we must, finally, use the same units for space and time. In this way we have that light travels at 1 meter per meter (that is, each meter of time light travels 1 meter of space), or 1 second per second, or 1 inch per inch etc. In this description the units cancels out and the factor c, the speed of light, has simply value 1. It becomes evident, then, as just a unitless factor of conversion between space and time.
Sources:
- Spacetime Physics by J.A. Wheeler & E.F. Taylor
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
The slomo makes this the best LOL CAT!! picture in the world.
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Guys do it too. It’s not a mistake it’s the best possible outcome even if it ends in tragedy.
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Immediately checked to see if it was this dude (wasn’t):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ydQ-qPD324
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