"the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured…(because) the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence."

tokyohanna posted a photo:

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" Apparently, I do have an incredible immune system. I had hepatitis C and cured it by myself.

How?
Just by being me. "

Love the closing paragraph to this weekend’s Times story on the dangers of a new particle collider creating a black hole that could eventually eat the earth: “Dr. Arkani-Hamed said concerning worries about the death of the Earth or universe, ‘Neither has any merit.’ He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, ‘the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.’”

Interestingly enough, David Schatsky pointed to it on the merits of its opening sentences (”More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice.”), which referenced the other front page stories of the day.

via David Schatsky

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"Names usually reflect parental aspirations, so someone who wants their child to be taken seriously will give them a name that has weight and is not frivolous - whatever class they are."

tokyohanna: My D40 is here I shall name him Hans.

"What is the fastest a dolphin can swim? Near the surface, no more than 54 kilometres per hour. Why? Because it hurts it to swim faster."

"No longer will you have to hitchhike out to a sketchy part of town to get your lower back tattoo… they are at Toys R Us!"