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Black women take over

Female characters appreciation, Part 4  |  Pt. 1 x, Pt. 3 x

“In chess, the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board, as it can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants. The King is more important to the game, as you need it to win, but it is pretty useless compared to the Q U E E N.“

Are you saying it's okay to take the life of another human because you can chose whether to kill it or not?

Hi anon!

Thanks for the input :) There’s no easy answer, I’m afraid. It depends what model of ethics you follow (deontology, consequentialism), but it is never black or white, sadly.

Have you ever heard of the trolley problem?

Imagine this: A train is running uncontrollably down the tracks. No brakes. Sadly, there are 5 people chained the tracks, who will be killed unless you flick a switch, which will change the train onto tracks that have 3 people chained to the tracks.

Either 5 people get killed, or you become responsible for the death of 3 innocent people by flicking this switch.

So, is it alright to take the lives of these humans because you can choose whether they are killed or not? Is it logical to spare some lives by killing 3 people instead of 5?

There’s no easy answer, I’m afraid :( Should you be allowed to decide what happens to your body? Absolutely. Is it wrong to abort babies, essentially killing them? Some people think so. There’s no easy answer, but I believe that we should be allowed to decide what happens to our bodies. Perhaps the answer is educate youngsters on sexuality and pregnancies, but in some cases, pregnancy will occur no matter how much protection you use - these are the cases that I think abortion should be acceptable for, being the next step from emergency contraceptives.

I hope this helped at all :)

Thanks for the question, anon! :)

Fabiola Gianotti Becomes First Woman Physicist to Take the Reins at CERN

Previously, Gianotti headed the ATLAS collaboration, one of two teams responsible for the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson on July 4, 2012.

Particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti has become the first woman to head CERN, the organization based in Switzerland that is home to the Large Hadron Collider. She succeeds outgoing director-general Rolf Heuer, who oversaw the laboratory’s operations for the last seven years.

Previously, Gianotti headed the ATLAS collaboration, one of two teams responsible for the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson on July 4, 2012. She quickly became a favorite figure in the media coverage surrounding that achievement — partly because of her gender (only 20% of the ATLAS team were women), and for her elegantly understated style, but also for her good humor.

For instance: Her use of the much-derided Comic-Sans typeface on her Powerpoint slides during that historic announcement was the source of much Internet amusement. Gianotti took the ribbing in stride. She even made an April Fool’s Day decree to make Comic Sans the official document typeface for all of CERN. She was a runner-up for Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2012.

Gianotti’s father is a retired geologist, while her mother had a passion for music and art. Their daughter, born in 1962, effortlessly straddles both cultural realms, excelling not just in physics, but also music, cooking, and even dance (she trained as a ballerina as a child). “Musical harmony is based on physical principles while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision,” she told the Guardian in 2014, when her selection as the next director-general of CERN was announced. “At the same time, you have to able to invent, because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.”

We were the most reblogged animated TV show on Tumblr this year! Thank you so much, everybody!

Goals

WHY DIDN’T ANYONE LET ME KNOW ABOUT THIS

THIS IS THE BEST

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I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From general excrement: each thing's a thief: The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power Have uncheck'd theft.

Timon William Shakespeare "Timon of Athens" Act IV, Scene iii

He said is this the return to Oz? The grass is dead, the gold is brown and the sky has claws There's a wind-up man walking round and round What once was Emerald City is now a crystal town

The Scissor Sisters "Return to Oz"

The Veil Nebula is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. While the Veil is roughly circular in shape and covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky in the constellation Cygnus, this portion of the eastern Veil spans only ½ degree, about the apparent size of the Moon.

via Neil Slorance

Mind blowing space gifs

Mind blowing outer space attractions

Crazy Science Facts

Earth LIke You’ve Never Seen It Before

Watch: Bill Nye’s graduation speech was as fiery and inspiring as you’d expect 

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via kushandwizdom)

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, excerpt from “The Poet’s Tale” (via larmoyante)