*watches infomercial for 17 minutes before realizing its not a regular commercial*
The World at Large
Time uses a picture of a young woman taking a selfie to demonstrate how fucked up our generation is
Why not use a picture of a 50 year old white male banker masturbating with mortgage papers into the mouth of a senator
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true self control is waiting until the movie starts to eat your popcorn
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One study had people sit in front of an array of objects, then grab and manipulate a specific sequence of objects, as directed by a computer voice. Sometimes the computer voice said things like, “Move the box.” Other times it added a filler word, saying, “Move the, uh, box.” The task wasn’t complex, and people had no trouble following the directions. Still, they were quicker to follow directions that involved objects they hadn’t yet manipulated when their instructions included an “uh.” To listeners, “uh” indicates that something new, which requires more mental processing on the part of the speaker, is about to be introduced. This helped the study participants put themselves in the right mindset of choosing from the as-yet unfamiliar objects. So even a word that’s no more than a grunt is helpful. Which is good, because all languages have verbal filler. American Sign Language has a sign for “um,” and most languages have some monosyllable that has no meaning but indicates a pause
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Every language needs its, like, filler words (via aminatou)
This is probably one reason it can be so hard to digest a lot of academic and straight-news writing. And, uh, therefore a helpful writing tip.
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Time to write a script to insert filler words into academic papers. “Subject B was a member of, like, the control group.”
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THIS STUPID GAME IS RUINING MY LIFE
Annnyyywwaayyysss, it was prom. It was kinda awk, I don`t know. At my school it’s a family dinner/slideshow sort of event with a dance afterwards, but no one stayed for the dance… Our getting ready was a series of unfortunate misadventures. We were really late, we attempted to curl our hair but we ran out of time, we got locked out of our car while meeting a friend at a salon, we had about 40 minutes to do all of our hair and makeup and my hair ended up being really frizzy and I got false eyelash glue all over my dress.
The prom was alright, but my hair looks super frizzy in all of the pictures and everyone else has such nice hair… I lost my keys and ran around looking for them until I discovered my friend has them. We were going to go to an afterparty but when we showed up, it was really sketchy and the entire house was pretty much hotboxed and there were graduated people everywhere. We went to a friend’s house, but it turned out it was under construction and gutted and there was a hole in the floor and no walls and insulation everywhere. We were gonna play Settlers of Catan, as usual, again, but after we set it up we realized everyone was too tired to play so we all went home. Also, it was Seafarers and I’ve never played that before and I really wasn’t in the mood to learn, and everyone was feeling crappy from playing ultimate. We could’ve had a beach fire or something and it probably would have been more fun, but what can you do?
On the plus side, none of my friends were at school because they all had hair appointments, so I finished all my homework for the weekend as I was able to focus. :)
I bet you did.
Did you estimate what mpg your car is getting? Did you figure out how many hamburgers you could get for six bucks? Did you think about how long it would take you to get somewhere given the speed and distance? Did you plan a meal so all the components would be done at the same time? Did you encounter anything on sale? Did you figure out how many groceries you could get for how much money you had?
There are about a million other daily, unconscious tasks that use algebra or at least algebraic thinking. Just because you weren’t writing out an equation or employing variables doesn’t mean you weren’t using the skills that algebra and other math courses taught you.
Science and math aren’t important because you’re going to need to know the exact steps of photosynthesis or the quadratic formula. They’re important because they teach you scientific and mathematical literacy and rational thinking, and that is sorely needed in a world where charlatans and cheats or people with a political or religious agenda can get away with all manner of pseudoscience and bullshit because people don’t have enough scientific literacy or critical thinking skills to accurately weigh the arguments or even discern where they fail logically.
So study math and science, and art, and literature, and history, and politics, not because you’re going to need it or it’s going to do something specific for you, but because an uninformed populace is bad for the world.
I reblogged this with a similar response a while back. This one is more eloquent than my response so I will share it with you all ^_^
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View Larger so I was going through an old hard drive looking for old pictures for the grad slideshow and I found this
