Paralysis By Analysis

mattschwarz:

topherchris:

Finally!

Finally, I can take a basic task and complicate it with a plastic rod.

THERE’S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!

White Girl Can Jump-Rope

via reddit

(via stalk: johncdutcher)

I’ve become obsessed with quantum mechanics/particle physics/astrophysics for the past month. Videos of Brian Green (in the video above), Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Feynman, and Brian Cox have been on constant playback on my computer. This whole fascination has distracted me a bit from all the stuff I need to get done, but I don’t care because I love thinking about this stuff.

In the video above, Greene argues that our current methods of teaching science and math are inept and lifeless. He goes to to say that if we make connections between the concepts taught in school to concepts beyond our imagination then it “comes to life.”

I’ve been having difficulty figuring out my perfect system for studying/writing. By this I mean that I can’t decide whether to listen to music or not while I’m working. If I don’t, I get antsy as shit and end up having four or five songs cycle through my head, so I result to throwing on the headphones. But if I do choose to listen to music, I have trouble finding something that won’t distract me and put me to sleep. I settled on Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast and Useless Creatures because right when he’s got you doing the droopy eye, BAM you’re head bobbing again.

These charts shows character interaction. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.

via xkcd

soupsoup:

And now, Christopher Walken reads the lyrics to Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face”

Ooooohh Eeeee Ohhhhh

kateheffernan:ilovecharts:brownpau:

“Hey Jude” flowchart, by loveallthis. I lol’d.

Bijan Sabet, via Twitter

Note that it’s “funny” rather than, say, “surprising.”

(via whitneymcn)