#I love education

[yoongisleftearring]

My tutor emailed me to say I haven't submitted an essay but ?? I had no idea there was even one to be submitted

I had to full out a form of integrity to even be able to see that there was an essay?? I could have been more on top of it and avoided a late submission but that is such a flawed system wtf are you trying to catch people out

I have another essay and a prerecorded presentation to do too I'm so stressed and I'm so sick rn too

Send help girlies xx

[deux-jared]

meeting a bunch of med students ! gonna be rly positive and not think any bad thoughts about them !!

[bicycles-bees-bisexuals]

Getting my Masters degree in “things that make me mad”

[tchaikovskym]

Elementary school homework for the next lesson: write the name of these 3 shapes

Middle school homework for the next lesson: fill in the blank with the correct tense for these 10 sentences

High-school homework for the next lesson: write a 200 word essay about this topic

Bachelor's homework for the next lesson: solve this a4 page of organic chemistry problems

Master’s homeowrk for the next lesson: make a 10 minute PowerPoint for this niche scientific topic

PhD homework for the next lesson: learn to code python

[grim-has-issues]

that history assignment is so fucking dumb, it just has to want to be late.

[angel-in-your-basement]

Just a reminder that aftercare can mean the difference between someone feeling safe, satisfied and sexy after a scene, and feeling shamed, gross and at worst, traumatized. Sex is a vulnerable thing for everyone, and no matter how casual, people deserve respect before, during and after. Dom or sub, kinky or not, take good care of your partners! The emotions are more important than the sex.

[timethehobo]

Emmy being self-conscious of his age, and maybe even about how he looks. 🥺 Rook loves him anyway.

[hussyknee]

Her final tweet on October 8 reads:

“Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”

[vigilskeep]

what makes me feel crazy about neve is that as a human mage of such wit and style and sheer talent—a less academically focused mage than emmrich or bellara and yet capable of some of the greatest feats of raw power in the game, yes i’m still not over her ice dome from the intro holding off shots from the archon’s palace—she absolutely could have gotten out of dock town. maybe she’d never have the life or titles of someone born altus, but she could have made it to somewhere comfortable. she’s the one person in dock town with a ticket out, with the unexpected gift that every tevinter non-mage dreams their children will have... and yet she’s still right there working late into the night in one lonely, run-down apartment after another, because these people need her. because nobody else of her ability has ever stayed for them. she tells herself every day that it’s probably a doomed fight, trying not to get her hopes up and her heart hurt, and she still stays!! i wonder if some people there resent her for having that chance and not taking it. she talks about having cut ties with at least part of her family. do they resent her for not taking the chance (and letting them share in the spoils)?

[madamepestilence]

The Chemical Structure of Redstone

So I was curious about what the chemical structure of Redstone looks like, and Minecraft Education Edition, albeit unintentionally, gives us a canon look into what Redstone is made of:

In Minecraft Education Edition, putting a Redstone Block into a Material Reducer shows that it's composed of 31 Carbon, 31 Uranium, and 38 Unobtanium, which we can assume to be measured in grams

Dividing the Redstone Block into Redstone Dust, each Redstone Dust is then composed of approximately 3.4 Carbon, 3.4 Uranium, and 4.2 Unobtanium

Again assuming that's measured in grams, that's 0.17 cm³ of Uranium, 1.496 cm³ of Carbon, and ???³ of Unobtanium per Redstone Dust

So what does this tell us about the chemical structure of Redstone? Basing this on Redstone Dust's composition, we can estimate that each Redstone molecule is composed of 3 Carbon atoms, 3 Uranium atoms, 4 Unobtanium atoms, a little under half of the time it binds to an extra Uranium and/or Carbon, and 20% of the time it binds to an extra Unobtanium

This also has some horrifying implications for how Redstone works:

Redstone would be extremely volatile as the radioactive decay from Unobtanium and Uranium would occasionally release Helium ions through alpha radiation, sometimes breaking apart Carbon into two Beryllium atoms (as it absorbs the extra proton and neutron from the Uranium) or merging into Oxygen

So Redstone should, in theory, be extremely flammable and potentially explosive, which implies that cave static, or the player mining Redstone with an Iron Pickaxe, could lead to a spark that causes an explosive cave-in

As Unobtanium is just a placeholder for unobtainable elements (hence the name), I'm going to estimate Unobtanium in this case as Unbinilium, the placeholder name for element 120

Why?

I'm estimating the Unobtanium as Redstone as being larger than the largest man-made element, Oganesson, which holds an impressive 118 protons

Each valence electron shell, from innermost to outermost, can bind with 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, and 8 shells respectively, so I'd like Unobtanium to be an element we haven't discovered yet, and consequently I'd like to jump up to the next shell

While I could estimate with element 119's placeholder, Ununennium, it would have one electron in the next shell, so Unbinilium allows for easier chemical binding

So what does this molecule look like then? Well, horrifyingly...

It looks like this. As Redstone forms in crystal lattices, and only two Carbon atoms are free to bind, I can absolutely see why it's so brittle that it breaks into powder.

This makes the structure of Redstone:

C3U3Uno4 (55% of molecules) C4U3Uno4 (13% of molecules) C3U4Uno4 (13% of molecules) C4U4Uno4 (7% of molecules) C3U3Uno5 (5% of molecules) C4U3Uno5 (3% of molecules) C3U4Uno5 (3% of molecules) C4U4Uno5 (1% of molecules)

An extremely radioactive, flammable, and explosive compound.

[toneelspeelster]

the theory of you.

[egophiliac]

C'MON TO THE THEATER!

I love these guys so much. forget NRC, I want to attend their terrible disaster school for disaster children that might actually be plastered on top of the smoking remains of an actively sinking ship. I may or may not actually learn anything, but I will have the time of my life.

[eyra]

love and light to big blue sky readers everywhere but for the last time, yorkshire is not in wales.

wales is a whole different country. please…. please learn this…. this is important

[metagamingseagull]

Not the whole setting being a metaphor for how academic institutions hoard knowledge to serve the interests of the elite and powerful?? How they will misrepresent and trap other entities to suit their own political agenda???? And how higher education institutions' limited attempts to recruit "a more diverse" student population - without addressing any foundational or structural issues - will fail to meaningfully improve anything?? Decolonisation is not a metaphor indeed!!!

The image of the whole of magic being condensed into a football field-sized room really evoked how academic knowledge production is limited by how many people - with incredibly informative and interesting viewpoints and understandings of the world - are excluded by our education systems.

DAMN AABRIA YOU ARE A GENIUS AND I LOVE YOU

[ericeffiorg]

Ncuti Gatwa and Emma Mackey attend the European premiere of 'BARBIE' in London, July 12th, 2023

[abnomi]

the only thing keeping him alive are his cartoon physics