fuckmorgan:

fuckmorgan:

When you see a Prep in hottopic

“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”

setheverman:

2017 has just started…….. it’s alright so far………… i am suspicious

You’ve seen A Series of Unfortunate Events, now get ready for:

jointherebellion215:

the next four years in America

grey-marsh:

So one thing watching A Series of Unfortunate Events reminded me of, and something I hope I constantly remember, is the frustration of being a kid and having adults constantly doubt your understanding or intelligence. Because watching this show I can aptly remember being a kid, reading and connecting to these stories so much because I felt like adults constantly belittled me. The whole ‘adult explaining what a word means when you already know it’ running trope in the series was the one that most stuck with me. And like, since I am now in contact with younger relatives, I really hope I never make them feel that way.

charlesoberonn:

I like how both Fury Road and The Force Awakens are acclaimed “soft reboots” of franchizes from the 70s and 80s that came out in 2015, but Fury Road was really good because it was made by the original creator and The Force Awakens was really good because it wasn’t.

CARLOS WEARING A WEDDING LABCOAT REBLOG IF YOU AGREE

yogvrt:

when i was like 14, i once wore contact lenses instead of glasses to school bc i had just learned how to put them on and i wanted to show them to my friends right, and this one guy goes and tells me “i thought girls were supposed to become beautiful when they stopped wearing glasses. something obviously went wrong with you” and that was??? so incredibly rude i wanted to cry but i just stood there not knowing what to say bc i honestly thought we were friends

but the girl sitting in front of him (who was also his crush, mind u) hears him and turns around with the most disgusted expression on her face, and calls him out on it like “omg i cant believe you said that have you even seen yourself in a mirror you have no right to tell her shit” and then she turns to me and says “dont listen to him, you look gorgeous with or without glasses” and she probably already forgot about that but i always remember it whenever i feel self-conscious about myself

so the moral of the story is: if u see someone being a jerk to someone else, dont laugh along and call them out on it. stick together and bring all the fuckboys down

silmarilswan:

gettysburgaddress:

inoue-takehiko:

evilscum:

deenoverdami:

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

his name is Ibn Khaldun

Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.

#no offense but arabs literally invented chemistry and algebra and we came up with the concept of the camera #the cataract operation that’s still practiced today was invented by an Arab #we created alchemy and the wright brothers used abbas ibn firnas’ findings and writings to build on to create a plane #I could go on and on and on #pls don’t erase our scientific history

I would say that for those who are familiar with the history of evolution, it is pretty common knowledge that the idea of evolution predated Darwin by quite a bit, and Darwin knew that.  Darwin’s valuable contribution was not the idea of evolution itself, but that he proposed a valid, precise, and empirically supported underlying mechanism of evolution- natural selection.  You will notice that Darwin’s theory, when properly referred to, is actually “The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.”  The idea of species becoming other species was not a new idea - the Greeks in the 600 BCs, and the Chinese in the 300 BCs all proposed early ideas of evolution.  It is indeed true that Islamic scholars preserved evolutionary thought after Europe entered the Dark Ages and expanded upon it greatly, and many of them did propose ideas that closely resemble natural selection.  However, no one in antiquity had precise enough language to describe evolution, and biology (and science in general) lives and dies on precise language.  You will notice that many ancient scholars and even contemporaries of Darwin described evolution as transmutative, linear, having a purpose, that later evolved animals are “superior”, or that some animals are “less evolved” than others, or that humans are the most advanced stage of evolution so far.  All of these are inaccurate misconceptions of evolution and natural selection, and would be rejected by the scientific community today.  Darwin’s theory on natural selection is what overturned pretty much all of those explanations/descriptions of evolution.  This is not to refute that Arab scholars discussed evolution in an impressive capacity, but to give insight on why the scientific community places such importance on Darwin’s theory, as he genuinely did propose a novel idea that consolidated and provided the most accurate basis of modern evolutionary study.