“If I go broke then broke must be in style.”
— Bernie Mac
(Source: nedhepburn)
“The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.”
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Frank Pittman, Man Enough (via stay-at-homedadblunders)
This is so true, it actually made me a little weepy.
(via thedaddycomplex)
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”
— Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via ceedling)
(Source: alliterate, via mquester)
“I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.”
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Albert Einstein’s advice to a little girl who wants to be a scientist, in a 1946 letter.
(via Brain Pickings)
(via jtotheizzoe)
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”
— George Orwell, 1984. (via lionskeleton)
(via philphys)
Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium | Off Book | PBS (by PBSoffbook)
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.”
— Aristotle (via philphys)
Proof: Pi to the 10,000th Digit
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028
84197169399375105820974944592307816
40628620899862803482534211706798214
80865132823066470938446095505822317
25359408128481117450284102701938521
10555964462294895493038196442881097
56659334461284756482337867831652712
01909145648566923460348610454326648
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Street artist Vhils scratches intricate portraits of people’s faces into walls.
You might remember his portraits from Moscow. He recently visited China, which is where these were made.
[Check out this incredible video of his time there!]
(via gthegentleman)
Someone once commented on a post of mine asking why I seemed to promote the What To Expect books when they make fathers out to be useless idiots. I have two things to say to that:
- They sent me a shitload of books to give away, so technically I’m just clearing my garage.
- The What To Expect books are full of awesome advice and they don’t make fathers out to be any more idiotic than every other parenting book on the planet does.
The person who asked me that did so after I posted the first trailer for the upcoming What To Expect movie. There are two very good reasons why I’m promoting the film (no, I’m not being paid or anything):
- It looks funny as hell.
- My friend Shauna wrote it.
And if you dads are interested, they’ve set up a “Dudes Group” Facebook page for the movie. Go there and like it and stuff.
