So I Stumbled Onto The Etsy Shop Of This Academic Who–in Real Life–is An Expert On Cuneiform–and

Sometimes you have to lick the equipment for science. It’s just a little fluid  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i was looking for info on when artificial sweeteners became popular and came across this. this idiot fuckn scientist just went and licked his entire lab. what a fuckign fool. wht the fuck

“[…] all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time.” — Ricketts and Steinbeck, The Log From The Sea Of Cortez

Little god raised up in grass, lord of fields and valleys vast

When your hair is wavy/curly sometimes there is a fine line between “messy romantic waves” and “evil witch who lives in the woods.”

People horrifically fucking up facts about evolution and genetics too support their stupid beliefs or to seem smart and “rational” is probably one of my big pet peeves 

what is a god to a scientist?

Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Albert Barr

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yes and that’s a happy fact

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The Languages of Iran

Just by looking at this map of Iran’s spoken languages, you can tell it has a long history of immigrations, migrations, and conquests. Pretty neat!