I want to write an essay about the phenomenon of being a “girl son,” because people will fight to the finish before they honestly admit it exists and is common, especially in my part of the world — the Pakistani Muslim society + family.
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
YouTube is a free university.
But there are more than 38,000,000 channels there and it's hard to find the good ones.
Here are 10 channels that will make you smarter:
I love Christmas in New Zealand. It’s the middle of summer, boiling hot. But every shop is playing “let it snow” and “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas”. The mall Santas are dying of heat in their fluffy suits, people have inflatable snowmen in front yards. No one questions it.
it's important to remind yourself on an extremely regular basis: almost nobody thinks about you, is genuinely interested in you, remembers that thing you did, etc. and this should be both liberating and also deepen your affection for the few people who actually do