Curiosity - Blog Posts
Book haul!
I got a few new books to fuel my curiosity and my need for a more sophisticated vocabulary- and because I was in need of a good few stories.
I’ve been feeling really disconnected lately. I crave conversations about astronomy, psychology, and philosophy—those deep dives into mythology and the mysteries of the universe. I want to discuss the stars, the moon, and the way different languages shape our thoughts. It’s tough when no one around me shares that passion; it often feels like I’m speaking a different language. If you’re out there and want to explore these topics together, let’s connect. I’d love to find someone to share ideas and rants with.
More favourite numerical memes:
Implicit or implicit enumeration of uncountable things (example: taking inventory of the fucks which one gives)
Suggesting the divisibility of things which are not customarily thought of as able to be subdivided (example: "six whole people")
Using words that aren't numbers as numbers (example: "one William dollars")
Technically correct but contextually misleading estimates (example: looking at a group of several thousand things and observing that there are "at least three")
Incongruous qualifiers for apparently simple sums or tallies (example: she was twenty-seven years old, not counting 2014)
Dating with purpose?
When you are young and pretty, there are things like "Seeking Arrangements" and more than a few other options online and off to get whatever it is you're after. But, what about when you're older, not so pretty, and no longer trying to pay for school? Are there rich folks out there, looking for old, chonky, and broke... but funny, curious, and not "dead" yet? Are there also dating? sites for that sort of connection? Seems to me everyone wants a pretty face or some sort of impressive resume but what about the folks still trying to find happy, without the good looks, or impressive "goals"? Are they stuck dealing with whatever they can find at the local bingo hall?
hahahaha Random curious thoughts.... heh.
bought this gem secondhand and can’t get over how stunning it is 🪐 reblog is okay, don’t repost/use
dark academia isn’t just for the humanities: i bring you STEM academia.
observatories. stargazing. biographies of scientists. filling the board end to end with equations. hand-drawn anatomical diagrams. the hazy euphoria after finally finishing an assignment. oppenheimer & frankenstein. the uniformity of a circuit board; the chaos of a programming window. ibm’s a boy and his atom. event horizon telescope’s black hole photo. the wonder of studying anatomy and knowing that’s happening within you. sketching organic compounds that may as well be sigils. studying latin for medical terminology. doing problem sets to classical music.
UNKLE. JUNKLE.
UNKLE.
JUNKLE.
*INHALE*
UNKLE JUNKLE IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*INHALE*
MOOOOOOOOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I cannot believe I'm doing this. (It's prolly not gonna work tho.)
but please share him with ur friends and family if you can/want.
For those who don't know him, this is a remake of a meme I saw in a dream. Make him famous, please.
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ῥαθαπυγίζω
I give kick in the ass
Νειλοθερής
Toasted by the sultry Egypt’s weather
Roman naming conventions
During Roman Empire, the Romans employed a system of nomenclature, consisting of a combination of personal and family names. It was called Tria Nomina (lit. three names), divided in: praenomen, the name who are normally called with; nomen, which indicated the bloodline of the family or the clan they were from; and cognomen, like surname, which indicated the household such as the modern usage. At times, they would use a third surname, called agnomen, for the ones who were adopted by the new family, but it hadn't a formal use. Between men and women, there were few differences: women usually had father's or husband's praenomen instead of one for theirselves.
I’m Not Arguing, I’m Curious
Neurokinection
i’m such a big fan of feeling different things, i think it’s a curiosity thing. like at one point i considered “what if right before i die i have my eyeballs removed so i could know what it’s like to not see at all. no dark. just nothing”
they’re not always so gruesome though, i really want to know what love feels like. and not really in a craving a relationship type of way, im just genuinely curious.
Hell yeah!
Showing an intense interest is how we get anything done, so be curious! Ask about what kind of bug that is on the road, question why so many of this one type of plant is in this one area, show interest in learning about that one animal you saw on a walk! It is never a bad thing to try and explore the world around you, we are stuck in it after all.
A dinosaur obsessed 12 year old studied fossils and found a 69 million year old hadrosaur skeleton embedded in rock while hiking. A fisherman in Australia noticed tiny shrimp in his net that looked slightly different from the others and he sent a few specimens to biologists for testing. Turned out to be a never before described species, going unnoticed in a popular lake. I posted a pic ~here on tumblr~ of a weird parasite on a dead fish and a parasitologist found it and asked to report it as the species has never been seen in my area before.
There is so, so much out there we literally don’t even know. And the best way to find that stuff out is to be intensely curious about everything you see. You might not discover a new species but you absolutely will gain a deeper appreciation for the world around you.