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leupagus:

HE USED TO BE A DANCER

viviling:

Holy fucking shit.

Eargasm.

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kryptaria:

jennybel75:

stephrc79:

Bitch, please.

Weapons of mass.. Yeah, I can’t say that with a straight face.

Guh, that first one? *dies*

Yep. First one.

kryptaria:

jennybel75:

Black and white Bean.

Hopefully any of you who don’t want this have Tumblr Savior. I swear, I’ll try and remember to tag these.

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devildoll:

cathymccaughan:

> Well played

It’s Friday. 

The Secret of Nicola Tesla - (1980)

tmbgareok:

The Secret of Nicola Tesla - co-starring Mrs. Pauls Fishsticks/Paul Masson Wine-era Orson Welles as J. P. Morgan. (As the title character, actor Petar Bozovic looks remarkably like Tesla.)

swingsetindecember:

scienceing:

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princess-munchkin:

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.

Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here. 

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields. 

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit. 

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now. 

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

• RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966. 
• Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.
• Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970. 
• Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952. 

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit. 

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter. 

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am. 

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there needs to be more women scientists in the world. 

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it’s hard to be a girl in engineering. really hard. you have less chances than a man. they can screw up. but your mistakes are remember. because they remember the girl who made the mistake. so we always have to be on guard.

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scarymarymoon:

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

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arachnis-deathicus:

Gonna quickly throw in an epic quote I found on this article.

KJKJ: Gene Roddenberry, with balls of brass, got up on national tv and said, “hey people, if a geneticist took all the best DNA from planet Earth and put it together to make the best human the world has ever seen - he wouldn’t be a white guy.”

This is why I find the casting of a white actor in this role to be so repugnant. They are not whitewashing an Asian role, they are saying that the best genetic material that the entirety of this world and it’s diversity has to offer….still comes from a white guy.

Yeah I mean who cares that Benedict Cumberbatch is a great actor like that doesn’t have anything to do with casting roles or anything WUT

Cumberbatch is a great actor. I love him in Sherlock, and I think he gives a highly enjoyable performance in ST:ID. But I don’t think he was the best choice for this role, and I’m puzzled that Abrams and Co. picked a white actor to play a POC.

roane72:

No Reservations: Narnia (6228 words) by Edonohana
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations RPF, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Anthony Bourdain, Reepicheep
Summary:

I’m crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table.

This fic is insanely brilliant. And makes me hungry. I could hear Anthony Bourdain’s voice in my head. (h/t to Diane Duane for retweeting this!)

punkypeggy:

cumberbitchsandwich:

permantrackstar:

[x]

THIS MAKES MY LIFE

the perfect villain award goes to Simon Pegg. Everybody clap.

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princessjameskirk:

bolderbart:

For $70 you can have a 3D printed Star Trek TOS figurine that looks just like you. They even have a Vulcan option! Pretty cool, if I do say so myself. (x)

PLEAAAAAAAASE

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arachnis-deathicus:

Gonna quickly throw in an epic quote I found on this article.

KJKJ: Gene Roddenberry, with balls of brass, got up on national tv and said, “hey people, if a geneticist took all the best DNA from planet Earth and put it together to make the best human the world has ever seen - he wouldn’t be a white guy.”

This is why I find the casting of a white actor in this role to be so repugnant. They are not whitewashing an Asian role, they are saying that the best genetic material that the entirety of this world and it’s diversity has to offer….still comes from a white guy.

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