AIRHEAD

I finally know what made me a fan of mecha anime in the first place, and it wasn’t any Gundam or any other popular series with Big Robots, though Transformers definitely had a hand in it anyway. It was a friggin TEKKAMAN! That would explain why I love when characters in Gundam-like anime are all hurt and are screaming in the cockpits of the bots and there is some drama. Tekkaman is literally 100% about the friggin drama and suffering of the MC. It must have enamored me enough to make me enjoy all those drama moments.

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”

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Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there's not much exposure for woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

These people are defending Mariupol right now. They are located at "Azovstal".

We pray for them every day🙏

Before/During war

The name of the girl in the photo is Katya

She is a sniper, and only 20 y.o.. Katya's the one of the last defenders of Mariupol at "Azovstal".

Singing a 🇺🇦 patriotic song, written in 1929. The first lines are:

"We were born in a great hour

From the fires of war and the flames of gunshots

We were nurtured by the pain of losing Ukraine..."

"While so many Western colleagues of mine worry about Russian culture, Ukrainian culture is being literally destroyed. Why not write about that? This is Hryhorii Skovoroda Museum in Kharkiv region. It was a wonderful museum with amazing staff. And now it wasn't canceled, it's contract has not been suspended, it is just fully gone, burnt together with its unique collection."

The Chauvet cave, France, the art of prehistory.

In 1994, three friends discovered in the south of France a cave with magnificent cave paintings, more than 30,000 years old.

Under the ground of the Ardèche region, an invaluable treasure is hidden for its antiquity, its conservation and the pictorial quality of the representations; one of the oldest and most splendid examples of Arieñaciense parietal art, dating approx. between 40,000 and 30,000 B.C.