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Hello, @sinesalvatorem! I got you an IRL heart emoticon. I made it myself, using my own hands and everything. <3

(For the record, just as “:)” represents smiling, to me “<3″ represents doing this. Now you know how to picture it when I write that, and what I’m picturing when you write it.)

This was originally going to be a contribution to the Put Nice Things in Alison’s Inbox project, but it turns out Tumblr is smart enough to recognise my usual URL contortions but stupid enough not to whitelist URLs from its own website, so instead it will be a contribution to Put Nice Things in Alison’s Pings (which does have the advantage of rhyming).

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#sinesalvatorem #oh look an original post #the most selfie-ish thing I have ever done

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sigmaleph:

Genius.

[text over an image of a boy and a wolf, the text says: “Never confuse Type I and Type II errors again. Just remember that the Boy Who Cried Wolf caused both Type I & II errors, in that order. First everyone believed there was a wolf, when there wasn’t. Next they believed there was no wolf, when there was. Substitute “effect” for “wolf” and you’re done. Kudos to @danolner for the thought. Illustration by Francis Barlow “De pastoris puero et agricolis” (1687). Public Domain. Via wikimedia.org”]

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#the more you know

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sinesalvatorem:

thebaconsandwichofregret:

weepingdildo:

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

Human Beings: These Are My People

(You can hear what the song would have sounded like here.)

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#Mars #Curiosity #proud citizen of The Future #neat #I hadn’t known about this #but I looked up the video

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ozymandias271:

transmemesatan:

lennonhead:

asexualeliza:

The Purple-Red Scale measures attraction in two dimensions: who you’re attracted to and how you’re attracted to them. It is designed to replace the Kinsey Scale, created to simplify human sexuality while still allowing for complexity. Plus, I love the idea of going up to a hetero and telling them I’m a Level C5 Gay.

Add yours in the tags!

this is the worst definition of hypersexuality I’ve ever seen oh my god how rude

this is also kind of a bad chart and seems convoluted in a way I can’t fully express

“the opposite sex” yikes

“bonds stronger than friendship” yikes

“sex is the be-all end-all purpose of any relationship” yiiiiiiiiikes

Yeah, the asexuality bloggers I know have been tearing this to shreds.

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#asexuality #debunking