Sparrow

Remember when you could look things up online. Do you remember how we used to search

“our age of bronze is collapsing” is this beautiful random burst of monty python dialogue amidst the drudgery of nolan’s vision and i think it should win the first-ever oscar for best solitary line

[wringing my hands as i look out my window directly overlooking wall street, watching the sun rise on october 29, 1929] aw fuck it’s the great depression

asked a student what their favorite animal was today and they said “a cheetah AND a sloth” and I said “wow smart, you’ve got both ends of the speed spectrum covered!” and they looked at me like I was the only sensible adult they’d ever spoken to

also looked up if christopher nolan was american after watching the odyssey even though i was pretty sure he was british (turns out he’s both. dual citizen) bc there was something sooo 2010s american military movie-esque about the sequence at the end with the war where he’s looking in horror at what they did to those people and that’s what fucked him up. like i was rooting for him but that reveal was sooooo nothingburger bc you knew that? you planned exactly that? it reminded me of “americans love making war movies about how killing civilians made their soldiers sad” bc that was bar for bar exactly that 😭 nothing personable even happened with any of those people that’d make him change his mind. (and wholly underutilized zendaya in that bit bc an interaction between them would’ve added a lot of depth to what fucked him up) but literally everything at that battle went according to HIS plan. like bruh lmao

they invented like 1000000 foods by doing some bullshit to milk

Archaeologist problems: Women (in the US at least, likely similar in many other countries) currently earning 70% of recent archaeology degrees, but still being forced to listen to some random guy's (uncited and unfounded) sea peoples theories.

Adding Australian data to this - 58% of currently employed consulting archaeologists (CRM equivalent) were women in 2021, and this number was increasing. It’s understood that this is even higher when we factor in academia numbers, and graduate numbers in general, but less data is available on this