Academia is a profession with little acknowledgment and many costs. We are repeatedly rejected and/or told we’re not good enough…but really it’s the academic system that is broken.
@ametsoc Why do clouds form these sort of repeating bands of whispiness? The bands seem to be along wavefronts moving in a direction perpendicular to the bands. Maybe in a higher layer of clouds?
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It is strange to me it is more socially acceptable to talk about killing and ending life than it is to talk about how life is made. Both industries are huge. Our ability to assign arbitrary meaning to things is befuddling.
Having family photo sharing is nice sometimes. I don't need to send the pictures to my wife, I just need to wait until she sees them. By then I've probably forgotten about it and the joy is so much better.
I want an American History class where we learn about all the ways the US has screwed up. I want to learn the shit parts of history. I was taught more of the successes than the enormity of failures that have happened. I want to learn about those.
@hankgreen your books do me think