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Teen breaks Rubik’s Cube new world record (video)

26,500 meals, 180 spacewalks and 1,200 scientific results publications later, we celebrate 15 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. 

An infographic from NASA.  

Credit: NASA’s Website

verklempt

(adjective) An untranslatable Yiddish word, verklempt is described as a person who is too emotional to speak. Verbalizing your emotions or the simple act of uttering a word become a challenge. (via wordsnquotes)

@girls don’t let a man interrupt your education

Once you start thinking of ‘poet’ as identity, once you start thinking that being a poet is just like being anything else that you are, as being something else that you were born, then you can go about doing the things that poets do, and you can go about that more comfortably. Or at least I think so. Or at least it gives you a rationale for why you’re doing what poets do. Like, ‘Why are you still in the dark, trying to read, at two o’clock in the morning?’ ‘Oh, because I’m a poet.’ ‘Why are you pulling your car over to write a line down and you’re already late to where you’re going?’ ‘Because I’m a poet.’

Jericho Brown, interviewed by Elisa Gonzalez for Washington Square Review (via bostonpoetryslam)

friend: I don't particularly like Sappho's poetry--

me: But you will lie dead, nor will there be any memory of you, now or in the future, for you will have no share in the Pierian roses, but invisible, in the house of Hades, you will wander to and fro, fluttering with the shadowy ghosts,

DENDROMORPHIC

[adjective]

shaped like a tree.

Etymology: from Greek dendron, “tree” + morphē, “shape”.

[hoooook]

my math homework: using Lagrange multipliers, safety goggles, rubber gloves, a pair of tongs, and a maniacal laugh, determine that...

The mistakes you’ve made do not invalidate everything you say/do/achieve for the rest of your life.

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