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just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL

Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleupagus !

We report: May is, so far, colder and wetter than April had been, which is something we had hoped for. Smelling leftover rain suspended in the air is an essential experience to our concept of spring. And then anyway, the sun emerges last second, so we may all be content.

Gespensterwald

there’s a local guy called the Sidewalk Astronomer who sets up outside the clubs downtown with a giant telescope and lets the drunk people walking by look at the stars. he’s my hero and he let me see the moon and Jupiter today

That there are, in the dark, in the quiet, always people who are doing good, and the reason you don’t hear about it is because they’d rather die than receive recognition for it, but they’re real; they do exist. And you are never alone

Also, don't assume that the thing you don't understand is insanely complicated and you'll never get it. Assume you will understand it. Assume you're very close to understanding it. I did peer tutoring for three years in college and something almost every student said as soon as they understood a concept was always: "Oh, that's it? I thought it was way more complicated than that." And I'd be like yes!!! You've been so very close to understanding it all along!!!! I watched students go from failing and considering dropping the major to getting B+/A-s while two-thirds of the time all I had to do was say "show me how you would try to solve this" and tell them to just keep going every time they looked at me like they were lost and ready to give up. And they'd figure it out. That's the real advantage that the privileged students have: they assume that obviously they are smart and can figure it out, and so eventually they do. Persevere with the confidence of a mediocre white man!

when i grow up i wanna be a dandelion