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If I knew what I was doing after college, I would tell you.
Please stop talking.
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This thought crosses my mind every single day without your help.
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Wait, how? Is there some sort of handout for this adult thing?
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College is great and all but I'm not trying to be an 8th year senior. Gotta leave sometime.
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After famously criticizing Gravity , the astrophysicist — and host of Fox’s COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey — doesn’t know if he’ll ever publicly fact-check a film’s science again. Praising a film’s science, however, he can do.
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AUSTIN — When acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter last fall to catalogue the scientific errors in Gravity — “Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west” — he had not intended his factual critique to go viral. Not even close.
“I was astonished at the attention the tweets got,” he told BuzzFeed while at the SXSW Film Festival, where the first episode of his scientific TV series COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey screened before its series premiere on Fox. “I have some metrics for how far a tweet will reach. I had no way to have predicted it [would be] on Today, and “Weekend Update” [on] Saturday Night Live, and on CBS Morning Show, and the blogosphere.”
Tyson's shock was partly due to the fact that this was far from the first time he's critiqued science in a film. He famously got James Cameron to replace the night sky in the 2012 re-release of Titanic , and he once schooled Jon Stewart on the rotation of the globe that opens The Daily Show . (And then there was the time Tyson, as the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, was the most visible scientist in the successful effort to de-list Pluto as a planet, a different sort of fact-check.) Tyson explained, however, that he only tries to weigh in on a movie's accuracy “if the film has a premise that it's getting things right.” “I don't tell you the bad physics in Star Wars,” he noted.
The Gravity tweets, however, garnered so much attention so quickly — even after Tyson clarified that he did enjoy the film “very much” — that it's given the Harvard and Columbia educated scientist pause about the whole notion of pop-culture fact checking.
“I don't know if I'll do it again, given how people just went crazy,” he said. He happily listed the science that Gravity got right, including the appearance of liquid water in space, the orientation of the stars in space, and the physics to how Sandra Bullock tumbled backward when she first tried to use the fire extinguisher. “But that's not as interesting as picking out the few things that it got wrong,” he asserted.
Then again, it's doubtful Tyson will keep to that mild declaration. When pressed to list films that did indeed get the science right, something compels Tyson — perhaps his sense of scientific rigor, his sense of showmanship, or both — to note when those films also got something wrong, even when it is Tyson's stated favorite film ever.
“I love The Matrix,” said Tyson without hesitation. “The Matrix 1 — not 2 or 3, of course. But that's my single favorite film of all time. I like the visual effects. I like the story. I like the premise. It gets one thing wrong with the physics, but I'll forgive it, because it did so much else so well. That part where [Laurence Fishburne] holds up the battery and says [the machines] are breeding humans to serve as a source of energy for their civilization, so that we're just really like a battery, a copper top. That's a weak point in the storytelling, because you don't make a human, and use the energy of the human, because you have to put energy in a human to begin with. Whatever energy that you're putting in the human, use that to drive your civilization. Any time energy transfers from one form to another, you lose efficiency. You're losing some of your energy. And a human is not the most efficient way to express the energy that you're feeding it. But then they wouldn't have a story. So I gotta give them something.”
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“The story as it plays out lasts a month,” said Tyson of the romantic comedy written by and starring Steve Martin about a weatherman and a magical highway traffic billboard. “How do I know that? Because they had the moon in the sky at night changing phase. And you know he put it there because he put it there, and each couple of days, its slightly bigger, and it goes through its phases. I thought that was great. I put a check in the box for thinking about connecting your storytelling to the cosmos.”
Unfortunately, Tyson's praise only goes so far: “What he got wrong was the moon grew in the wrong direction. So you did good for thinking about the universe, but next time call somebody!”
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This week, we profile four women who are fighting for feminist change within their conservative religions: Orthodox Judaism, Mormonism, Catholicism, and Islam. Read that series and these other great stories from around BuzzFeed and the web.
“Why bother? Why fight? If you’re an educated feminist who was born into such a religion, why not convert to another that doesn’t relegate women to a second-class status? For each of these women, the answer relates to not only her devotion to her own faith, but to her community.” Read it at BuzzFeed.
A collaboration with This American Life, this stunning piece by Susan Zalkind examines a gristly triple homicide in Waltham, Mass. Two years later, two suspects were dead: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and a friend the FBI say was about to confess — when agents shot him in the head. Zalkind asks the big question: Could the Boston Marathon bombing have been stopped? Read it at Boston Magazine .
An ambitious piece by Raffi Khatchadourian about an extremely ambitious project: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, which is being built with investment from 35 countries and is the most expensive scientific instrument ever. “But if it is truly possible to bottle up a star, and to do so economically, the technology could solve the world’s energy problems for the next thirty million years, and help save the planet from environmental catastrophe.” Read it at the New Yorker .
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Todd Balf examines new College Board president David Coleman, who saw a clear need for change: “Teachers, students, parents, university presidents, college-admissions officers, high-school counselors. They all were unhappy with the test, and they all had valid reasons.” Read it at The New York Times Magazine .
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Police had to use pepper spray to break up the crowds of thousands at the annual “Blarney Blowout” in Amherst, Mass.
Police detain a participant in the pre-St. Patrick's Day “Blarney Blowout” near the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. on Saturday, March 8.
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Might be best to take a time out, everyone. All statuses via @worst_status .
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“Land of the Longhorn” was made to promote the Watch What Happens Live residency in Austin, but I think Andy should make many more of these.
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Just. Wow.
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The Save the Children campaign is hoping to raise awareness about the plight of youngsters in Syria.
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A publican has caused outrage with a poster barring Aboriginal Australians.
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Meet the “Menstrual Man” who is changing the way people think and talk about women’s periods in rural villages throughout India.
A high school dropout from a poor family, Muruganantham is an unlikely hero for women in India.
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He said the cloth was in such a bad state he “would not even use it to clean my scooter.” Apparently his wife didn't buy sanitary napkins or pads because, as they cost so much, she wouldn't be able afford household essentials for her family.
Upon his discovery, he went into town to buy his wife a sanitary napkin, and said it was quickly sold to him as though it was a banned item.
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He then made a cotton pad for his wife and asked for feedback. His wife then had to explain that periods are monthly, to which he responded: “I can't wait a month for each feedback, it'll take two decades!” So, he had to find volunteers.
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The women like his wife who use cloths are so embarrassed by their periods, they don't lay their cloths out in the sun to dry, which means they are never disinfected. This is a major reason of why 70% of all reproductive diseases in India are caused by poor menstrual hygiene.
According to the BBC, he also found that many women used “but other unhygienic substances such as sand, sawdust, leaves, and even ash” to absorb their menstrual fluid.
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Dating is hard enough without having to deal with a total creep.
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1. I want to love you.
2. So, what's wrong with you?
3. We would make beautiful children.
4. Wow, this is so weird.
5. Are you going to kill me? I'm not into internet murder.
6. My therapist tells me that I should really stop talking to my ex.
7. I think I love you.
8. You seem nervous.
9. You're too cute to be single.
10. You'd like my wife/husband.
11. You'll definitely have to smoke more weed if you hang out with me.
12. I just feel a lot, I don't know.
13. How many people have you slept with on OkCupid?
14. You remind me of my mom.
15. I guess I can be kind of a jerk sometimes.
16. You're not the type of person I usually go for.
17. Do you want to go to a strip club?
18. So, are you smart?
19. Do you mind if my friend stops by?
20. I have a third nipple — want to see it?
21. I'm thinking of moving. I just can't sit still.
22. So, you just don't have any hobbies?
23. How's [the online dating website you met on] going for you?
24. So was I an accidental right swipe?
25. So, are you bi? 'Cause those glasses are giving you away.
26. I'd never read [that book you like]. I only read dense, complicated books.
27. You're kind of eating a lot.
28. So, how long have you been single for?
29. Look, I'm all for gender equality, as long as women know their place.
30. You'd make a beautiful mother.
31. It sounds like you don't really have fun.
32. My ex always used to say…
33. So, do you go on a lot of dates?
34. What's the worst thing you've ever done?
35. I met my last girlfriend while I was hanging out in the undergraduate library trying to meet girls.
36. I'm not looking for anything serious.
37. Is your friend from your profile picture single?
38. I think R. Kelly is misunderstood.
39. I don't really know how to watch my tone.
40. This wasn't a good idea. I think I'm just going to go.
41. Can I look through your diary?
42. ** starts crying **
43. We should definitely travel together.
44. Sorry I'm late, I just came from this cool art thing. You probably haven't heard of it.
45. I just had a burrito.
46. I don't like burritos.
47. You're not one of THOSE feminists are you?
48. Not to sound sexiest or anything but…
49. So, how long until you'll let me sleep with you?
50. Have you ever thought of losing a few pounds?
51. I'm about to go on a trip for the next six months.
52. So, how do you think that went?
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Holy doppelgänger! Jon Stewart was right.
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Bet you can’t get through this post without running to your local pharmacie .
This rich vitamin A and D mask gives you the power of retinol without the redness or peeling that comes with it. It has an interesting ointment-like consistency that might take some getting used to as you smear it on your face, but It does smell lovely. Buy it here for $39.
This stuff is great for blemish-prone skin (read: BACNE) and comes in a very pretty bottle that doesn't highlight your ravaging acne issues. Get it here for $20.
This stuff is the most effective and cosmetically elegant sunscreen you can buy. It just melts effortlessly into your skin, leaving a very smooth finish that makes a great primer for your foundation. (Disclaimer: I own it, I love it.) Get it from Amazon for $24.
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