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HI, I'M LAURA AND I PLAY THE BANJO

This blog may perhaps be only about science and astronomy... and Carl Sagan.

I aspire to be a scientist of some kind in the future, specifically an astrophysicist.

I am 16 years old.

This is a personal blog, so don't expect a constant stream of science/Sagan 24/7. I try to keep it consistent but occasionally diverge.

Thanks for visiting :D
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan (via composedofstardust)
spikedteacup: Society disgusts me. Appalling!

spikedteacup:

Society disgusts me.

Appalling!

What grades determine:

laviesupernova:

  • Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
  • Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
  • Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
  • Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want…

(Source: greaterandmoreterrible)

The Spiked Teacup: The Humorist and Rape Culture

spikedteacup:

An excerpt from my humorist essay:

While one would like to believe that jokes trivialize issues limited to race, insensitivities in humor regarding rape, sexual assault, and sexuality in general create a safety net onto with perpetrators of such actions may fall upon. One issue must be…