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ALT“There will come a time when the rich own all the media and it will be impossible for the public to make an informed opinion.” – Albert Einstein
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A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN (1969)
I’ll never be able to get this kite in the air! Never, never, never, never! I can’t do it, I can’t do it! I don’t want to see this kite again as long as I live! Take it! Take it! Get it out of my sight! Anybody who can fly this kite is a genius.
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God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the “hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)” guy get proven right
It was a woman that did it!
I love girl talk, especially when it’s complex geological theory
All the continents really did used to be one body so you really are never alone and girls said it first 💁♀️
My girl is an icon and we regularly turn this photo of her into a meme when men in our department say/do stupid things.
Crucially, Alfred Wegener, “the guy” OP is talking about made a lot of valuable observations, but wasn’t able to explain established phenomena.
Wegener’s ideas fell apart as soon as someone asked questions like “so how did these continents drift apart?” because all he had was some interesting observations (for example, Wegener noticed that fossils from identical species could be found an ocean apart, but almost as if they had a natural range across two specific areas that were at some point connected).
Without Marie Tharp, Wegener’s ideas would have just been interesting food for thought, not a fully developed robust scientific understanding allowing us to predict volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and allowing us to understand continental drift.
It’s wild that Wegener’s ideas were dismissed as amateurish and Tharp’s discoveries and huge quantities of data analysis dismissed as “girl talk”. But they sure changed the face of geology and Marie Tharp specifically has saved lives through her diligent charting of the sea floor and her discovery of that rift and its movement.
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Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.
The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game…
So the first picture is this:
Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious
I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game
Okay so later in the lineup we get to Dalí’s Persistence of Memory, which is very funny because it’s preceded by several pieces that have like, obvious people in them, so everyone’s gotten a bit complacent in their mimicry
In case you’ve forgotten, this is Persistence:
And I swear every time, there’s a beat right before everyone either becomes a tree by t-posing for their life, or goes boneless like some kind of child-shaped pancake over the nearest flat surface
Highlights from this one include a pair who decided to drape themselves pancake-style over the same desk and banged heads, resulting in 2 ground pancakes, and someone who fully just stood there staring, and explained that they were expressing the hatred they felt as soon as they saw it
Last installment: one of the pictures is The Scream, and everyone very quickly just makes a 😱 face, but then we get to talk about my favorite “throw spaghetti at the wall” topic, why is he screaming? (The answer is Existential Dread, but it’s not appropriate to tell 1st graders that so instead we all put out other ideas lol)
In case you haven’t looked at it recently, this is The Scream:
My favorite guesses from the kids to Why Is He Screaming:
-those guys behind him are going to arrest him
-he missed his boat and it’s one of the ones in the background, he just noticed
-the sky’s all wiggly
-he just wanted to scream
-HE CAN SEE THE CLASS OF FIRST GRADERS LOOKING AT HIM AND HE DOESN’T LIKE IT
Children are bonkers
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SONS OF ANARCHY (2008 – 2014)
7X01 « Black Widower »why is this scene so sexy but awful at the same time
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Zelah Clarke (Jane) and Timothy Dalton (Mr. Rochester) in “Jane Eyre” 1983 version
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Michael Fassbender para The New York Times Style Magazine, 2015.
Fotografias por Bruce Weber.
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Tumblr is super big on the “I didn’t say it was good, I said I liked it” but really need to discover the value in its opposite of “I didn’t say it was bad, I said I hated it”.
You can acknowledge that something is good, great, a masterpiece even, and just straight-up not enjoy it.
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ALTDoodles in celebration of the goofiest dragon type getting a megaevo! 🎉🎉
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“Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia evolution leaps forward.”
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