Source: sciencepopularis
Someday I’ll be the first to get a Ph. D in ‘Undeclared’.
Considering the comic’s chosen method of delivery
That there’s no music major shown is really just a mystery.
That Randall could ignore my field of study has me quite irate.
Who’s worse off than a music major when it’s time to graduate?
You sir, are a winner. Awesome comic! You have to sing it to Modern Major-General!
Source: xkcd.com
Oh, go fuck yourself, Google. This is just as bad as companies forcing me to “like” something on Facebook before I can view whatever it is they want me to “like.”
Just let me thumbs up something, without forcing me to “upgrade” to G+, you dickheads.
The worst part of this? For a producer like me, I’m going to lose a crapton of potential upvotes for Tabletop, because the core of my audience is tech-savvy and may not want to “upgrade” to yet another fucking social network they don’t want or need.
I strongly agree with this. Making it so that only google plus users can decide whether a YouTube video is worth watching benefits no one except for Google Plus: It is bad for viewers, bad for video creators, and bad for YouTube’s ability to curate and tailor videos to potential viewers.
I just deleted my G+ account, now G+, everywhere.
Source: wilwheaton
I’ll just leave this here
Almost died laughing.
The last ones are too funny!
(via edwardspoonhands)
Source: avidxcritical
A Universe from Nothing?
Sean Carroll discusses Lawrence Krausses A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing.
Source: addtoany.com
Kidney for Papa DeFranco
So I mention this in today’s PDS (not posted yet), but my dad recently visited me for a week because he is about to go into dialysis and will have a hard time traveling after that has begun. If you don’t know, my father and I have PKD (Polycystic Kindey Disease). Its this congenital disease that involves our kidneys being squeezed to death by cysts over a long period of time. It hasn’t affected me yet, but my Dad has dealt with the pain for over 15 years and his kidneys are finally about to fail.
I have played this out in my mind thousands of times. How can I ask someone for something this big? I’m the kind of person who hates asking to borrow five dollars let alone a part of a person. But thats where I am and I’d hate myself if I never asked and God forbid something happened sooner rather than later.
If you would be interested in donating a kidney to my father the following information is for you
- Call 813-844-5669
- Ask for the Living Donor Program
- Request to see if you are a match with Philip DeFranco Sr.
If you are interested in donating a kidney, bone marrow, etc to someone else/someone local you can find more information here.
If you want to support this but not in a surgery sort of way you can always donate to PKDCure.org and/or promote their amazing efforts.
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
Philip DeFranco Jr.
Source: defranco
The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
Scientists are a famously anonymous lot, but few can match in the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity the 20th-century mathematical genius Emmy Noether.
She is the most important mathematician who ever happened to physics. Even if this sentence doesn’t make sense.
Source: The New York Times
A physicist's tangential thoughts.
