so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944. 

Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538. 

Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.

my nephew, who is like 11 or 12, is playing “5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel”, which is exactly what it says on the tin, and I have never been more terrified of the youth of today

here’s a sample picture from the Steam page:

what the hell is this

Wow I’ve never wanted a game more

Oh

Yes

This was definitely worth my 15 bucks

I’m already in love

Most Spoken Indigenous Languages by Continent

come closer i am a normal person with normal feelings about math

Normal

Topology

We say a topological space X is normal if given two disjoint closed sets E and F, there exist open neighbourhoods U of E and V of F that are also disjoint.

Normal

Geometry

We say a vector V is normal to a plane E if it is perpendicular to any vector inside the plane

Normal

Group theory

We say a subgroup N of G is normal if gN=Ng for all g in G.

Normal

Galois Theory

We say an algebraic field extension L/K is normal if every irreducible polynomial over K that has a root in L splits into linear factors in L.

Normal

Term Rewriting

A term is in normal form if it cannot be rewritten any further using the rules of the given rewrite system.

Normal

Number theory / Analysis

A number is called normal in base b if every digit from 0 to b-1 occurs in the b-ary expansion with frequency 1/b. It is called normal if this holds for any b.

Normal

Psychology

Come closer I am a normal person with normal feelings about math

Some people don't have an internal monologue: they don't hear a voice in their head speaking their thoughts. Some people can't imagine living without one. Which best describes you? (More specific descriptions on reblogs would be great!)

quick question if I became a professor would I have to stop exlusively dressing like a west coast washington summer camp counselor or

it's not even my fault. i moved to alaska and everyone clowned on me for how "dressy" i was and then I got down to washington and my roommate was this cool girl mountain biker and I said I loved her look and I was like 5 pants sizes bigger than her so any time she went thrifting and found clothes SHE'D wear but were too big for her, she just GOT them for me like i had a personal stylist/shopper and now I look like i have a boyfriend named kyle from snohomish we're really into bouldering.

and you know what. i like that

I mean I've seen adjuncts wear Carhartts to class and once my art professor got tenure she declared that Not Even God Could Stop Her and started wearing Hawaiian shirts with enormous amounts of cleavage and no bra so I feel like you're fine

Depends on the school and the program. Some areas of study - especially those that are associated less with the classroom and more with the field - can dress down more.

I studied literature, which is more of a classroom subject. Some places, like University of Delaware, where I did my MA, are dressier, and expect you to look nice when you're teaching, as a grad student or a professor. Other places, like Ohio University, where I did my PhD, are more casual, and as a grad student, I usually taught while wearing t-shirts and jeans.

I remember talking to somebody about the literature program at the University of Connecticut, and asking them if they expected grad students to dress up to teach, and the professor literally said, "Oh, no, the men don't wear jackets EVERY day."

So it really depends on the program and the local culture.

That said, once you've got tenure, you can get away with a lot...

one full prof usually shows up immaculately dressed, but once in a while will show up in like flip flops and a t shirt that says "busy 😭" or something

I just think it's a gauge for how close to mental breakdown someone is tbh

someone just called the science museum to complain that this eclipse wasn’t as good as the one in 1979.

he wasn’t even a visitor, he was just mad about the eclipse not being visible without special glasses and wanted to complain to me about the eclipse “not being dark enough” for ten solid minutes

“I looked at the sky and all I saw was birds! On the news they showed in south carolina where you could see venus and all the stars, why couldn’t we see those here?”

in honor of today’s eclipse, throwback to the best phone call I ever got at my old job

We legit had two people call and complain about our eclipse viewing party “it’s very inconveniently timed. Can’t you reschedule it?”

Ma’am, we are a library. We cannot control the sun.

Tabby

Why can’t you just reschedule the eclipse??

Why can’t you

TABBY.

Sorry let me just call the goddamned solar system customer service line with your complaint okay brb!!

#Wait was he calling to complain about the partial eclipse#not being as dark as a total one?!

Sadly that is exactly what he was complaining about. Evidently he’d been in the path of the totality in 1979 and could not understand why it was different in 2017 when our city was at about 90%. It also took me a bit to figure out that he was complaining about the actual sun and not how badly organized the museum’s viewing event had been, which lead to the most memorable part of conversation:

He had me there.

quick question if I became a professor would I have to stop exlusively dressing like a west coast washington summer camp counselor or

it's not even my fault. i moved to alaska and everyone clowned on me for how "dressy" i was and then I got down to washington and my roommate was this cool girl mountain biker and I said I loved her look and I was like 5 pants sizes bigger than her so any time she went thrifting and found clothes SHE'D wear but were too big for her, she just GOT them for me like i had a personal stylist/shopper and now I look like i have a boyfriend named kyle from snohomish we're really into bouldering.

and you know what. i like that

I mean I've seen adjuncts wear Carhartts to class and once my art professor got tenure she declared that Not Even God Could Stop Her and started wearing Hawaiian shirts with enormous amounts of cleavage and no bra so I feel like you're fine

Depends on the school and the program. Some areas of study - especially those that are associated less with the classroom and more with the field - can dress down more.

I studied literature, which is more of a classroom subject. Some places, like University of Delaware, where I did my MA, are dressier, and expect you to look nice when you're teaching, as a grad student or a professor. Other places, like Ohio University, where I did my PhD, are more casual, and as a grad student, I usually taught while wearing t-shirts and jeans.

I remember talking to somebody about the literature program at the University of Connecticut, and asking them if they expected grad students to dress up to teach, and the professor literally said, "Oh, no, the men don't wear jackets EVERY day."

So it really depends on the program and the local culture.

That said, once you've got tenure, you can get away with a lot...

Saint Paul Public Library, I am begging you to make this real

my dad sent me this today and I'm so jealous

i know we all love that mary ruefle poem about how the sirens in the odyssey were singing the odyssey but i think they were singing the iliad, i think they were singing an iliad in which the war makes sense and was worth it, an iliad in which odysseus is the hero, not achilles, an iliad in which a hero is simply a hero and not a mourner

The fact that you can boop @jstor

It's required

The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.

Fossil [Explained]

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