Found and Filed

A collection of the weird and wonderful things that I find on the internet, as well as my own occasional ramblings.

hamburgerjack:

leroyss:

sensitive fangirl problems


LOL Lord…

That first one is pretty much the basis for most of my parenting.

(via karnythia)

kamidoodles: onceuponanotsolongago: [poster of an older Asian Woman with grey hair and brown eyes. The poster reads: “MissingSince 1/31/12Name: Hong YuanPlease Call 911Fullerton Police714-319-0865 Julie310-920-4163 Jorge End description] ponywithafez: fadeastride: sarasponda: Just watched a man put up posters for his missing wife. I just looked at him and started crying. Please help if you live in or around the Anaheim/Fullerton area. (Taken with Instagram at Fullerton Metrolink Amtrak (FUL)) I don’t leave the house much, but if I do I will be looking for her. Signal boosting, and will be keeping an eye out for her :( Boosting. posting to fb as well, I lived in the fullteron area.

kamidoodles:

onceuponanotsolongago:

[poster of an older Asian Woman with grey hair and brown eyes. The poster reads: “Missing
Since 1/31/12
Name: Hong Yuan
Please Call 911
Fullerton Police
714-319-0865 Julie
310-920-4163 Jorge

End description]

ponywithafez:

fadeastride:

sarasponda:

Just watched a man put up posters for his missing wife. I just looked at him and started crying. Please help if you live in or around the Anaheim/Fullerton area. (Taken with Instagram at Fullerton Metrolink Amtrak (FUL))

I don’t leave the house much, but if I do I will be looking for her.

Signal boosting, and will be keeping an eye out for her :(

Boosting. posting to fb as well, I lived in the fullteron area.

(via karnythia)

religiousragings: thetrevorproject: Please reblog this if you stand with Ellen! Support Ellen and thank J.C. Penny for standing up to the hate group that wants Ellen fired for being gay: glaad.org/standupforellen And what new fuckery is this?  Ellen is AWESOME!  Is it just me or are people getting more open about their bigotry?  SIGN THIS!

religiousragings:

thetrevorproject:

Please reblog this if you stand with Ellen!

Support Ellen and thank J.C. Penny for standing up to the hate group that wants Ellen fired for being gay: glaad.org/standupforellen

And what new fuckery is this?  Ellen is AWESOME!  Is it just me or are people getting more open about their bigotry?  SIGN THIS!

(via ladyatheist)

knowledgeequalsblackpower: Mathematics in Ancient Africa Rarely do historians discuss mathematics in Africa, and when they do, they only discuss it in Egypt and Northern Africa. However, the oldest mathematical objects in the world have been found in sub-Saharan Africa.  The picture is of Ishango bones. They were found near Lake Edward on the borders of Uganda and Zaire and are estimated to be 25,000 years old. At one end of the Ishango Bone is a piece of quartz for writing, and the bone has a series of notches carved in groups (shown below). It was first thought these notches were some kind of tally marks as found to record counts all over the world. However, the Ishango bone appears to be much more than a simple tally. The markings on rows (a) and (b) each add to 60. Row (b) contains the prime numbers between 10 and 20. Row (a) is quite consistent with a numeration system based on 10, since the notches are grouped as 20 + 1, 20 - 1, 10 + 1, and 10 - 1. Finally, row (c) seems to illustrate for the method of duplication (multiplication by 2) used more recently in Egyptian multiplication. Recent studies with microscopes illustrate more markings and it is now understood the bone is also a lunar phase counter. Who but a woman keeping track of her cycles would need a lunar calendar? Were women our first mathematicians? Considering that I’ve heard an argument that women were the first agriculturists/farmers because men were out hunting, I think, because of the same reason, it is reasonable to assume that women created this tool. (via university at buffalo)

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

Mathematics in Ancient Africa

Rarely do historians discuss mathematics in Africa, and when they do, they only discuss it in Egypt and Northern Africa.

However, the oldest mathematical objects in the world have been found in sub-Saharan Africa. 

The picture is of Ishango bones. They were found near Lake Edward on the borders of Uganda and Zaire and are estimated to be 25,000 years old.

At one end of the Ishango Bone is a piece of quartz for writing, and the bone has a series of notches carved in groups (shown below). It was first thought these notches were some kind of tally marks as found to record counts all over the world. However, the Ishango bone appears to be much more than a simple tally. The markings on rows (a) and (b) each add to 60. Row (b) contains the prime numbers between 10 and 20. Row (a) is quite consistent with a numeration system based on 10, since the notches are grouped as 20 + 1, 20 - 1, 10 + 1, and 10 - 1. Finally, row (c) seems to illustrate for the method of duplication (multiplication by 2) used more recently in Egyptian multiplication. Recent studies with microscopes illustrate more markings and it is now understood the bone is also a lunar phase counter. Who but a woman keeping track of her cycles would need a lunar calendar? Were women our first mathematicians?

Considering that I’ve heard an argument that women were the first agriculturists/farmers because men were out hunting, I think, because of the same reason, it is reasonable to assume that women created this tool.

(via university at buffalo)

(via karnythia)

alierakieron asked: I just want you to know that as a result of the "wibbly wobbly sexy wexy" bit I now want an educational video on gender and sexuality done by Ten. It would be brilliant.

Wouldn’t it though? Diagrams, the companions as peanut gallery, possibly demonstrations with volunteers…(What? A girl can dream!)

socialistexan:

This great except for the sexual orientation.

It got so close, but using Bisexual instead of Pan and not including Asexual bothers me.

The problem is sexuality on a linear continuum works asthetically, but not in reality. Wouldn’t pansexual basically *be* the entire line? Where would asexual be? We need a ball of wibbly-wobbly sexy-wexy stuff. With the same little explanation under it that all the other stuff got. My favored summary is: Gender- what’s in your head, Sex- what you have between your legs, Sexuality- who you want between your legs. Though that one sort of disregards expression, though. Hmmm… No such thing as a perfect analogy because none of us are perfect? Possibly the best thing to do is be as open minded as possible and then ackknowledge that you’re probably missing someone/getting it wrong somehow.

5th Grader Accidentally Makes Explosive in Class, Gets Co-Authorship on Subsequent Paper

tierracita:

paradiscacorbasi:

geekymimi:

Kenneth Boehr wasn’t expecting more than the usual from his ten-year-old students when he started a lesson on the Periodic table and handed out the molecule modeling kits. Then Clara Lazen handed him a model constructed from oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon atoms, and asked if she’d made a real chemical or not. Boehr found himself stumped. So he took a cellphone picture of the whole deal, and sent it to an old college buddy: Robert Zoellner, professor of chemistry at Humbolt State University. Turns out, Clara had, in fact, put together an entirely new, but viable molecule. And on top of that, if it can be synthesized, it has the potential to store energy, opening up some pretty wide applications.

Why is there not a picture of CLARA?

We have a girl genius here who invented a new molecule and we see a picture of her teacher?! 

Found some!!! If they won’t do it right the first time, tumblr can make it better:) 

And a video about her that actually features her and an article that puts Clara more in the focus she deserves! 

(via karnythia)

I made Bitey Mad Lady stuff

This is what I did while Tumblr was down. I am having too much fun with Zazzle and can’t wait to be home and on my regular computer. I have ideas.

Also, I am thinking that if money actually comes out of this little venture I want to donate it. Not sure where just yet, though. Something for kids. Something to do with literacy/libraries… This will require looking into.

Whoa, hey there Whovians! Shirt update.

There is no Bitey Mad Lady shirt that I can find on the internet anywhere! So, I’m designing one on Cafe Press (because sometimes I still live in 2001, if I could silk screen myself I’d do them that way and be on Etsy). When I put on The Doctor’s Wife, I clicked forward to double check the line and iTunes landed right on Idris saying “I’m the TARDIS.” Obviously it is meant to be. =D (Edit: Lies. I am going with Zazzle instead: http://www.zazzle.com/petrichordelight)

Also, omg that last post was reblogged by the official Doctor Who tumblr! I’m grinning like a fool over here!

this is super important tw: cissexism, institutionalization

inflateablefilth:

fracturedrefuge:

kyriarchy:

http://www.change.org/petitions/berlin-youth-welfare-office-stop-the-institutionalization-of-a-11-year-old-transexual

http://www.iglyo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=42

Because institutionalization is always, always better for a child than being raised by her loving mother.

Guys, please read and sign.  An 11-year-old trans* girl is being institutionalized because her father does not support her gender identity. 

This is fucked up. And this needs more notes and signatures. Poor kid.

(via ladyatheist)

Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada

stfuhypocrisy:

The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada. Simply put, Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada.

The offending section of the regulations reads:

5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if …
(c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents;

Although this obviously discriminatory smear of regulation did not come to significant public attention until very recently, it apparently came into effect on July 27th, 2011.

It is important to note that these regulations are not actually a piece of legislation, which would have had to pass through readings and votes in the House and Senate (which is probably why it went unnoticed until now). Rather, the Identity Screening Regulations are a set of rules implemented unilaterally by the Ministry of Transportation, as part of Canada’s so-called Passenger Protect, which is essentially the Canadian Federal Government’s equivalent to the U.S.’s “no-fly” list.

Minister of Transportation Denis Lebel is, of course, a federal Conservative MP appointed to the cabinet position by Stephen Harper.

So what does this mean? Well, in order to change the ‘sex’ designation on a Canadian Passport, the federal government requires proof that surgery has taken place, or will take place within one year. So for non-operative transgender persons, for gender nonconforming (genderqueer) persons, and for the vast majority of pre-operative transsexual persons, it is literally impossible to obtain proper travel documentation marked with the sex designation which “matches” the gender identity in which they live.

In the eyes of the honourable Minister of Transportation, that makes trans people unfit to fly in Canada.

It is interesting to note that this regulatory adjustment occurred immediately following the federal election in 2011. In the previous parliament, Bill C-389, a bill to amend the Human Rights Code to explicitly enshrine protections against discrimination for transgender people, had successfully passed in the House of Commons, only to die on the Senate floor when Harper declared a Federal Election (thereby dissolving parliament).

Is the timing of this disturbing and blatantly discriminatory regulatory adjustment merely a coincidence? That is up to you to decide. However, the negative impact on trans people is crystal clear, and we need to take action now.

(via ladyatheist)