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themarysue:

ajacquelineofalltrades:

menshevixen:

bananakarenina:

villa-kulla:

Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?

And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?

Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?

The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.

You know, I always did like Scarlett Johannson.

Dat side-eye.

Let me just hug you forever Miss Johannson.

Scarlett Johansson gives the best side-eye. 

karnythia:

icecreamsocialistslut:

anji-beast:

kingcakes:

morfinkanin:

geekgirlsmash:

mullets-to-mohawks:

mellydash:

Dr. House, Tom Brady, Bender. 

Awesome. 

Olivia Benson, Vin Diesel, BENDER.

I’mma gonna LIVE!!!

Nancy Botwin, Louis CK, and Batman

So…we’re going to get really high, and send Batman to do the killing!

Tyrion Lannister, Jackie Chan and Gordon Freeman?!?!! Hell yeah, bitches. Me and Tyrion will be the brains, Jackie and Gordon the brawns. Invincible.

Walter White, Bender, David Grohl.

I’m fucked.

Yeah bender is awesome but he’ll also probably abandon us.

Nancy Botwin, Bruce Willis AND THE INCREDIBLE HULK! I’ll live so lang as Dr. Banner doesn’t get infected

Dude, I have Sheldon Cooper, The Hulk, and 50 cent. That’ll do. 

Dexter, Batman, & Bieber. I’ll live & have a person to sacrifice so the rest of us can escape!

Kenny Powers, Iron Man, and Nicki Minaj.

We’ll sacrifice Powers and Minaj as a decoy effort IMMEDIATELY so that me and my millionaire playboy philanthropist fly off to safety (because fuck some retconning Marvel shit, Tony Stark has plenty of brains, he doesn’t need to eat them). I finish my physician training and between us, Stark and I save the world even unto reversing the zombies back into (amnesiac of that period) humans, because we are fucking awesome like that.

“…And no one ever heard “Super Bass” again. *applause*”

(Source: generallydecent)

hats-hatseverywhere:

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(via gleesquee)

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

8 Myths About Scientists

I stumbled across this in Thick Books and Thin Films by Adam Ruben. Pretty good.

Myth #1: Scientists frequently make “breakthroughs.”

Truth: Scientific discovery is agonizingly slow. The only time I’ve ever run naked through the streets yelling “Eureka!” is when I forgot to refill my prescription.

Myth #2: Scientists work in isolation.

Truth: Scientists are even prouder of setting up collaborations than they are of actual results. Most scientific talks end with a slide listing all collaborators like little badges of honor—and the less similar the collaborator’s field, the prouder the scientist. “Well, you know, I might have discovered a cure for tuberculosis,” a scientist will say, “but what I’m really excited about is this new collaboration with an Icelandic poet!”

Myth #3: Scientists possess useful skills.

Truth: Scientists possess useful laboratory skills. But you should never allow a physicist to wire your house.

Myth #4: Scientists follow the scientific method as it was taught in high school: Observation, Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusion.

Truth: In reality, the way scientists work is more like: Fiddle Around, Find Something Weird, Retest It, It Doesn’t Happen a Second Time, Get Distracted Trying to Make It Happen Again, Go to Chipotle, Recall the Original Purpose of Your Research, Start Over, Apply for Funding for a Better Instrument, Publish Some Interim Fluff, Learn That Someone Has Scooped You, Take Your Lab in a New Direction, Apply for Funding for the New Direction, Collaborate With an Icelandic Poet, Eat Chipotle With an Icelandic Poet, Co-Write Scientifically Accurate Ode to Walrus, Get Interested in Something Unrelated, Apply for Funding for Something Unrelated, Notice That 20 Years Have Passed.

Myth #5: Experiments always yield data that teach or reveal something.

Truth: Let’s say you’re doing an experiment with five mice. These particular mice will turn either yellow or blue. So you walk into the lab expecting to see five yellow mice, which will point to one explanation, or five blue mice, which will point to the other. Instead you would see one yellow mouse, one green mouse, one striped mouse, one plaid mouse (dead), and one mouse that has somehow sewn himself a little blue jacket, though he doesn’t wear it all the time.

Myth #6: A personal tragedy can turn a scientist evil.

Truth: Very few scientists are legitimately evil, though the number rises if you ask graduate students to characterize their advisers. Besides, it’s hard to be truly evil when you don’t have any practical skills.

Myth #7: A scientist can be proficient in all branches of science.

Truth: Exactly what discipline did the professor from Gilligan’s Island specialize in? Chemistry? Mechanical engineering? Coconut-based transistor radio construction? Any time a problem needed solving or a device needed building, the professor knew exactly how to do it. That guy could make anything. Except a boat.

People who don’t understand science assume that scientists can master any subfield. That’s why we’re often asked for our opinions about scientific news items, and we can only reply, “Uh … sorry … I know I’m a molecular phylogeneticist, and this story was about molecular phylogenetics, but, well, I’m a different kind of molecular phylogeneticist.”

Myth #8: Scientists are not sexy beasts.

Truth: Scientists are indeed sexy beasts. Not only do our lab coats make us look dapper and charming, those same coats look even better strewn unceremoniously over a standing lamp while we make passionate love to you.

#8. I look hawt in a lab coat but wooooooo, what I look like OUT of it. Yes.

Myth #9: Scientists are always tinkering in their labs with glassware and machines and chemicals, with strange glowing substances!

Truth: Tons of time is spent “going over the literature” to make sure you’re not repeating work, to see if there’s any useful info out there to use as a starting point (well, if Dr. Rumpuss has already graphed the melting point of X, I don’t have to worry about that part so much and can get right to… telling my grad students to graph for Y and Z and then A’-Z’, too! We’re a week ahead!). In addition, someone has to clean all that glassware, maintain and clean those machine, and feed the glowing slime mold. So what I’m saying is that science involves dishwashing and a lot of it.

(Source: approachingsignificance, via quetzalcobra)

onehalfprince:

geekingabout:

WHAT’S GOIN’ ON!

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deserthooker:

Daw

So, B lost his wedding ring one night. Came off in the moonless night because he’d lost a lot of weight and it just finally caught up. Came off into or in the direction of the compost pile. He’s felt bad about that since then, as it was bought with money from his then-deceased grandparents. 

I’d been planning to replace it after a talk with him indicated that he’d be alright with that. 

I think it’ll need engraving while we get it sized. :D