we may laugh together yet

is this this the whosier guy y’all always talking about ? ngl this is a vibe

And in these next 50 years you will eat so many delicious meals, laugh so many times with so many people you love, shout and scream and sing and cry and smile so hard your face hurts. And you will see such beautiful sunsets and feel fresh cold air on your face and feel warm and safe wrapped up in your favourite winter coat.

I wrap this blessing around you like a shroud, so that no ill can find you, and every warmth is held close

He's doing sponsored Harry Potter content now, so he is dead to me.

I almost picked Pierre de Fermat as my favourite mathematician, but he was beaten by a narrow margin.

In my opinion, the relative merits of Newton and Leibniz are truly infinitesimal.

Fibonacci is as good as the previous two combined.

Yes, alright, so what - shoot me - I think Galois is the greatest of all time!

Personally, I think Euclid is unparalleled.

I think Euler’s the greatest: the power he held over math looks imaginary.

this list would be simply incomplete without Gödel

I'd like to smoothly embed Milnor in this discussion.

For my part, I'd like to shimmy in Cantor diagonally. I'll brook no argument

but have you all factored Al-Khwarizimi into the runnings?

When it comes to who's the best mathematician, Noether runs rings around them all!

I love when people try to gotcha me on my stance that all sports should be gender integrated with "even American football???" because I can instantly come back with "oh lmao, no, I don't think ANYONE should play American football at all, it's way too dangerous" like nice try but I know no amount of testosterone is going to protect you from the profound, life ruining health issues caused by getting repeated severe concussions over the course of several years. No one should play this sport.

you are doing ghost of christmas past torment to me

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

I still don’t understand

Also to be clear, it turned out the problem was that the algorithm used to analyze all of these tests was broken and improperly evaluating the significance of correlations. It's been 15 years and I still don't think consequences of that have been fully expunged from the neuroscience literature.

Freely available on-demand HRT and a robust public education campaign about the believability of transition could have prevented this tragedy.

I just learned about this recently from a Viking reenactor! Indigo dye isn't blue until it oxidizes, so when you dye with indigo your cloth or thread doesn't come out of the water blue, it comes out and then reacts with the oxygen in the air and seems to spontaneously turn blue in front of your eyes. It's a really cool process to witness.

there are a lot of really good ancient roman laws but i think my favorite is that, if you got struck by lightening and died, you couldnt have a proper burial because it meant that the gods hated you

“Jupiter cancelled him and we’re not going to question that”

genuinely asking: how would these laws apply to that guy who got struck by lightning on seven separate occasions but survived every time?

I think I would have assumed Zeus was trying to fuck him.

worst possible response thanks so much