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Half Of The United States Lives In These Counties

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

(via brittbutterfly21)

Having been lucky enough to travel on numerous roads like this last summer, I'm pretty sure I remember being genuinely and irrationally afraid of this exact thing happening. I have no clue why.

"We humans long to be connected with our origins, so we create rituals. Science is another way to express this longing. It also connects us with our origins, and it too has its rituals and its commandments. Its only sacred truth is that there are no sacred truths. All assumptions must be critically examined. Arguments from authority are worthless. Whatever is inconsistent with the facts, no matter how fond of it we are, must be discarded or revised. Science is not perfect, it’s often misused, it’s only a tool, but it’s the best tool we have. Self-correcting, ever-changing, applicable to everything. With this tool we vanquish the impossible. With the methods of science we have begun to explore the cosmos." - Carl Sagan

From the coldest cold to the hottest hot, here’s all the universe’s temperatures.

(from BBC Future)

Bonus question: What is hotter, a boiling tea kettle or an iceberg?

How much is time wrong around the world? [4000x2048] Source in comments

"The goal is to get from point A to point B as creatively as possible so technically they are doing parkour, as long as point A is delusion and point B is the hospital."

-Jim Halpert