I’m immensely proud to be one of Time Magazine’s 30 Must-See Tumblrs! And a “Reader’s Pick” no less! You guys are awesome. The rest of the 30 are amazing, too. Check them all out. Especially science friends CWL and SciPsy.
And no, I wouldn’t mind being Neil deGrasse Tyson’s sidekick.
(via TIME.com)
The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1 (by crashcourse)
Dirty Signs - Fuck This Shit (by thfemale)
10 Misconceptions Rundown (by CGPGrey)
Epigenetics (by scishow)
George F. Spencer of Lyndon Center, Vt., died in 1908 at age 83. His epitaph is inscribed on the sides of a granite monument:
Beyond the universe there is nothing and within the universe the supernatural does not and cannot exist. Of all deceivers who have plagued mankind, none are so deeply ruinous to human happiness as those impostors who pretend to lead by a light above nature. Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teachings, and most of these teachings have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her dogmas, and most of these dogmas have been false.
(From Charles L. Wallis, Stories on Stone, 1954)
Web Storm: President Obama Sings Al Green At Apollo Theatre (High Quality Full Version) (by NewsTsar)
This Is Important, You Should Watch It of the Day: Salman Khan offers the most succinct and straightforward rundown of how the language in SOPA’s current iteration leaves wide open the possibility that, despite its ostensible intention to block foreign sites trafficking in pirated content, completely legal websites operating inside the United States could easily be labeled “enablers” of “U.S. property theft” and subjected to crippling sanctions that would effectively shut them down.
(Worried? Do something.)
[khanacademy.]
“Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.”
-Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.”
Early Bird Special: The Golden Age of Hollywood Bloopers: 10 minutes of flubs and stumbles from classic Hollywood movies.
[reddit.]
