Waiting for Winter

panzerbjoern:

thetechnicolortrenchcoat:

Today is Copernicus’s 540th birthday. You may remember Copernicus as the man who said “Hey, what if the Earth went around the sun?” To which the Catholic Church replied “Hey, what if we set you on fire?”

I hate to be ‘that guy’, but the Catholic church never threatened him. His calendar reform and his ideas on heliocentricism weren’t even discussed at the Council of Trent and his works were seen as uncontroversial. Copernicus never faced any persecution directly or indirectly by the Holy See. In fact, Pope Gregory XIII used Copernicus works on heliocentrism to reform the calendar in 1582. It was only 75 years later that it was even brought up again by Galileo. The pope at the time was a conservative one and the Catholic church was desperately trying to counter Protestantism and the thirty years war, hence why the pope and the inquisition placed him under house arrest on suspicion of heresy, using Copernicus’ theories as their argument against him.

johnskylar:

goshawke:

last-snowfall:

thewinstonisin:

stele3:

fuckyeah-nerdery:

huffingtonpost:

Queen Rania: Let’s Drop The First ‘I’ In ISIS. There’s Nothing Islamic About Them

LONDON — Queen Rania of Jordan said Thursday evening that there is nothing Islamic about the self-proclaimed Islamic State, or ISIS.

Watch the full interview here.

I think the West is the only place calling them ISIS; the Middle East and elsewhere calls them Daesh. Here’s the thing: Daesh hate being called Daesh. Daesh wants to be called the Islamic State because Daesh thinks it gives them legitimacy and validity. Plus, Daesh is very insulting to them, so I think we should call Daesh Daesh as a fuck you to Daesh.

What does Daesh mean?

Technically, Daesh is an acronym for their full name in Arabic (al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham), but it also sounds very similar to Arabic words meaning “one who crushes things underfoot” and “one who sows discord” (“daes” and “dahes”, respectively) so that’s why Arabs like to call them that.

Daesh it is.

DONE.

Friendly reminder.

swevani:

sometimes people dont really understand that having schizophrenia doesn’t permalock me as an angsty 13 year old evanescence fan

did-you-kno:

In the 1800s, the infamous Robert Liston
performed what was dubbed ‘the only
operation in history with a 300%
mortality rate.’ He rushed through a leg
amputation and failed to save his patient
(who died of gangrene), then cut off the
fingers of his assistant (who also died
of gangrene), and slashed through the
coat of a surgical spectator who was so
terrified his vitals had been cut that he
dropped dead from fright. Source

mediamattersforamerica:

Conservatives are already using the Brussels attacks to fearmonger about Muslim refugees. Don’t take the bait.

seriously fuck that lg commercial for repeatedly getting the fucking leek song stuck in my head

gameraboy:

A Wonderland Walkway, the Polish lake Morskie Oko in the Tatra Mountains.
Photograph by Sara Delić

stirringwind:

onlyblackgirl:

I can’t believe I actually lived though the full transition from VHS to DVD. Like there are people alive who have never seen a VHS tape….I remember when we were still tryna figure out how the fuck they got a full movie onto a cd.