January 2010
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut in “Thoughts of a Free Thinker” (1974) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via notational)
Why I Drink...
Student: So...was Martin Luther King President?
Me: Was Martin Luther King Junior a U.S. President? No. He was an 'American Hero' but he was not the President...We talked about him last week, remember? We listened to his famous speech.
Student: (Annoyed) Yeah, but, my History question says, 'What President freed the slaves?' but since 'Martin Luther Whatever' wasn't ever President then the question is obviously messed up ---Or is the answer Obama?
If You're Looking to Place Blame in the Mass.... →
(via newsweek)
Going to Athens tomorrow!
Watchfuckyeahlost:
thedailywhat:
This Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: ONN’s exclusive sit-down with Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse reveals that the upcoming season is expected to make Lost fans more irritating than ever.
[theonion.]
Wu Tang Vs The Beatles →
csessums:
good god i'm an idiot
bailums:
i need a fucking lady friend to talk to or something because i’m so tired of all these girly emotions and bullshit.
/emotional mini-rant.
Samsies
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know?
Book here, written by physical science editor at Science
I went through and added links to Wikipedia articles on everything.
Mach’s Principle
Newton’s laws of motion
Kepler’s laws
Newton’s law of gravitation
Conservation of energy
Simple harmonic motion
Hooke’s law
Ideal gas law
2nd law of thermodynamics
Absolute zero
Brownian motion
Chaos theory
Bernoulli’s equation
Newton’s...
Student Quote of the Day
toughteacher:
Me: “That’s a smart seat you chose.”
Kiddo: “I chose it because I can’t make shadow puppets from here.”
Me: (wink) “Good choice.”
I wish I could wink, to use it as an educational tool!
