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I’m often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period. I don’t care about your economic background. I don’t care what town you’re born in, what city, what country. If you’re a child, you are curious about your environment. You’re overturning rocks. You’re plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you’re doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
And so then so what do adults do? They say, “Don’t pluck the petals off the flowers. I just spent money on that. Don’t play with the egg. It might break. Don’t….” Everything is a don’t. We spend the first year teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.
So you get out of their way. And you know what you do? You put things in their midst that help them explore. Help ‘em explore. Why don’t you get a pair of binoculars, just leave it there one day? Watch ‘em pick it up. And watch ‘em look around. They’ll do all kinds of things with it.
"- Neil deGrasse Tyson (via senoranelson)
I love this man. (via absurdcreation)
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"What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky."
- Tao Te Ching
"If school sucks, it’s because all the invention has been removed, and students do little else besides practice and perform."
- Justin James
"’Slut’ is attacking women for their right to say yes. ‘Friend Zone’ is attacking women for their right to say no."
- And “bitch” is attacking women for their right to call you out on it (via dearscience)
(Source: emilyslovestory, via liviatsang)
"You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while."
- Eckhart Tolle (via age-of-awakening)
(Source: carmentheowl, via englishmajormade)
It's not child "porn". It's child rape.
The loathsome comments of the former Crimewatch presenter, Nick Ross…. that he would watch images of a child being raped out of “curiosity”…Rape culture: the shutter I get from knowing that even a distinguished British broadcaster feels comfortable openly talking about his interest in watching a child being raped on a film that could have been taken of me.
(Source: nothing-but-white-noise, via demisexualwtfromanticfeminist)
The Golden Phoenix Girl: The Rape of Men: A Women's Issue
The fact that men are in the minority of rape victims and the majority of rape perpetrators does mean that rape doesn’t happen to men. On the contrary, although small compared with the percentage of women raped, male rape is a large and significant social issue, affecting twice as many
Rape…
Today in science we learned that you can never gain cold, you can only have an absence of heat; and it made me think that maybe hatred doesn’t exist, and there’s only an absence of love.
this is the realist shit I’ve ever read
(via liviatsang)
