happy public domain sherlock holmes year to all who celebrate <3
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the notes on this post are stressing me out so bad! regardless of the intention or veracity of the picture posted, i will just leave here that a recent gallup analysis of data collected by the US department of education estimated that 54% of US adults between 16 and 74 read below a sixth grade level (i’m linking to a snopes page that links to the analysis and breaks down a bit why we shouldn’t take that precise number as gospel; precision aside i think that gets at the scale of the situation). this is not the result of the pandemic or of tiktok or of anything else; a 2002 study by the USDOE found remarkably similar figures, and also found that older adults were more likely to have low literacy skills than younger ones, so it’s not a matter of generational decline, either. the reasons any single person struggles with reading can be complex (to address a common theme, no, ADHD doesn’t guarantee reading issues, but there is evidence that it can make them likelier to occur), and the reasons for our societal failure to create a literate populace are exponentially so, encompassing matters related both to broader social ills such as poverty and to pedagogical issues with the way teachers are trained to teach reading (here’s a good general interest piece on one particular problem; here’s a more in depth podcast, with episode transcripts at the site, that i highly recommend, and which, to address another idea that comes up often, features interviews with the parents of children with reading problems who absolutely kept books in the house and read to their kids regularly, which alone will not teach most children to read or prevent difficulties learning; i’ll mention too that if the specific problem highlighted in these links were fully remedied, that would still leave a lot of work to be done to ensure that we were equipping children to develop into proficient adult readers). reading is not a naturally occurring process for the vast majority of people. a number of different things need to go right in order for proficient reading to occur, and for most people, those things are not automatic or instinctive and need to be explicitly taught with sufficient guidance and practice in order to develop them. including, yes, things like visualizing and summarizing as you read, although the ability to use those itself rests on sufficiently automatic decoding (which means mastery of the alphabetic code and also some degree of knowledge on morphology), the ability to parse more complicated syntax, a strong enough vocabulary to recognize nearly all of the words you’re reading, and probably some other stuff i’m forgetting off the top of my head. given the situation as it stands, it makes about as much sense to sneer at someone for not knowing how to read a fantasy novel for adults as it would for me to roll my eyes and scoff at every person on this website who couldn’t sit down right now and factor a basic quadratic equation. i don’t do that, even though i do think it’s a skill almost everyone is capable of learning and the vast majority of people should graduate high school being able to do, because i recognize it is something that needs to be taught to be learned and is frequently taught poorly, and also because i’m not a fucking asshole.
Extremely needy boy in need of a home ASAP (N. Idaho)
Help! I have a problem and he looks like this!
He climbed into my delivery van while I was working my route. I have a lead for the general area of where he came from, but he's an outdoor cat and the person who tipped me off recognizes him but doesn't actually know who he belongs to... and frankly I'd rather not return a kitten to someone who would leave him out in the snow.
He wants all of the snuggles and none of the relative stillness required for snuggles. He is an extremely needy baby with several extra toes. He never stops moving (I had to pin him down to get this photo), is SO FULL OF LOVE, purrs very loudly and very constantly, aaaaannnd... has a terrible habit of suckling on everything. I CANNOT keep him. Even short term. I need someone to adopt or foster him in an indoor home immediately. I really don't want to be forced to throw him back out in the brutal north idaho winter, but I have no cat on my lease and a very small home that is full of toxic plants and beloved trinkets for him to knock over and destroy. He does use the litter box. Though he's very... enthusiastic with his shovels of hands so you'll want one with high sides or a cover.
Located in the silver valley idaho area. Weather permitting, I'm willing to drive him but I just have a little front wheel drive sedan so I'm not super capable when the snow is too bad on the passes.
Look! he's got thumbs! Please take him off my hands right now! D:
Apparently laudanum was invented by an alchemist which kinda tracks. Also what is the point of the crushed pearls that seems so weird. @cryptotheism is this an alchemist thing (putting stuff like pearls and amber in medicine) or was this guy just weird/fucked up/swiss
I don't know enough about actual chemistry to say. I can however, confidently say that Paracelsus was weird and swiss for his day. Other priests would regularly write about Paracelsus like "This dude is a genius but he's A Lot."
Well, he was an alchemist. Don't these guys technically date back to chemistry's earlier "Hey, let's grind down X thing into powder and stick it into a retort over medium-low heat, for the lulz" days? Alchemists just had some tacked-on mysticism added to stuff that wouldn't have been out of place on TikTok's weirdo homebrew "cleaning paste" recipes.
You could also argue that like those TikTokers who mix whatever they've got under the kitchen sink, Paracelsus probably had a fair bit of that fumes-induced dain bramage...
Alchemists predate chemistry, but the idea that they were doing shit at random for lolxd reasons is ahistorical. They weren't just fucking around, they were attempting to discover new knowledge, and we're operating by what information and technology they had available for the time.
Also the idea that alchemists were mystics is largely ahistorical, and the result of later baroque and especially early 20th century occultists romanticizing them as magicians.
All that said, Paracelsus was a weirdo and a genius. He regularly publicly burned copies of Galen's medical texts, and spearheaded the radical knowledge reform movement for his time. Of the big three alchemical theories of his period, his theory is actually the most correct, and the closest to how chemical reactions actually take place.
“Mathematician Henry Segerman demonstrating how a linear 3rd dimensional plane is only a projection of the curved 4th dimensional space time.”
Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension, and arranged in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other while the prestressed tensioned members (usually cables or tendons) delineate the system spatially.
Get your flu shot.
On a related note, make sure you also get the bivalent covid booster shot. Drink plenty of water afterwards.
Get your flu shot.
Are you okay Logan?! Do you have the flu??
No, but an estimated 35,000,000 people in the US in the past two years have.
this unit on yo mama jokes will be on the midterm, but you will not be expected to know the original categories. instead, we’ll be focusing on the kinds of dadaist reinterpretations we’ve been doing in class. if you’ve been paying attention and keeping up with the assignments you should do just fine.
*whispering to the person in the seat next to mine* daddyist interpretation
@ladyinsertnamehere do you have something you’d like to share with the class?
see, you guys have nothing to worry about, everyone’s gonna get an A. now get out of here and go enjoy the weather, next week don’t forget we’re meeting in room 206 upstairs for the exam.
F- for you
Anonymous asked:
Have you had a healthy meal and water recently?
It is not necessary, but yes. At least two.
Anonymous asked:
I saw a Heart and Brain comic where they were reading together. Do you and Patton ever read together?
Technically as facets of the same person, we all read together whenever Thomas himself reads something.
NEW SANDERS SIDES: "Can Plushies Improve Our Health?" 🧸 Is there a time when we need to say goodbye to stuffed animals? Opinions differ... Hope ya enjoy! https://youtu.be/urSZqHMh2Lo
Anonymous asked:
How do you guys get sick? Are there germs in the mindscape?
That is a great question, kiddo! I wish I had an answer, but I don't quite know! @logicallysanders Do you know??
We metaphysical beings; we are directly affected by Thomas's state of being, along with what free will we now have as more fully realized creations. As such, while contagions do not technically exist within the mindscape, we can still 'catch' ailments like the common cold through suspension of disbelief and catch it from other sides as a sort of empathetic response.
Aside from that, we can also 'catch' ailments that do not technically exist in the real world based on Thomas's state of being, such as but not limited to 'brain freeze' or as previously shown, a 'bruised ego.'
Hope this helps.