The Giant Squid Nebula

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

I’ll never understand why people argue about free will. Your choices were always determined by the shape of the universe at the moment you decided to argue. Isn’t that beautiful, though?

I refuse to have a LinkedIn, it itches my body everytime I've tried setting up an account

MINIATURIST, Flemish Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung: Romance of the Rose 1490s Manuscript (Harley Ms. 4425) British Library, London

The trilemma of fast, good, and cheap: you may attain two of these properties, but probably not all three. If it is fast and good, it probably won't be cheap. If it is good and cheap, it probably won't be fast. If it is cheap and fast, it probably won't be good.

Bonus: The concept of "cheap" is context-dependent and may not necessarily pertain to a thing's monetary cost.

Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata), Libellulidae, Chambers Bay, Pierce Co., WA, USA

photograph by Steve Russell

doomy doomy doomy doom doom doom the end

This post is a stand-in for a very real complaint that I'll eventually speak of at a later time.

Virtue doesn't have to be complicated. Nor does it have to be a grand gesture. For example, a virtue could be simple, like doing one thing at a time or cleaning up one mess before making another. If you want a measure for approximating integrity, consider that how you do one thing tends to become how you end up doing everything.

The economics of the band-aid industry hinges almost entirely on the suffering of small children