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britcision · 2 years ago

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The trick is making those words and their meanings accessible for everyone

Young kids learn all the words for snow in their cultures

Most adults in the western world never learn exactly what quantum physics describes, or the names of half the tools in a standard toolbox

Good scientists build a glossary appropriate to the understanding of their audiences

(They use words you’ll understand when speaking to you)

The takeaway is: scientists are not doing it on purpose, the government is by making it hard for you to learn what those words mean without spending a lot of money

If someone can persuade you that people who use technical terms look down on you for not knowing them, you’re less likely to believe those people if they say something that someone doesn’t want you to know

Like that climate change is real

It is intentional, deliberate anti-intellectualism to make you trust anyone but the experts

We combat this by learning what those specific terms mean, and by teaching our scientists communication tools and not denigrating the humanities

The whole “scientists use big words on purpose to be exclusive” is such a bunch of anti-intellectual bullshit. Specific and concise language exists for a reason; you need the right words to convey the right meaning, and explaining stuff right is a hugely important part of science. Cultures that live around loads of snow have loads of words to describe different types of snow; cultures that live in deserts have loads of words to describe different types of sand. Complex language is needed for complex meaning.

#science #jargon is useful but only if it is accessible #being able to explain a concept to an amateur is a super good test for your own understanding #such as:#time dilation #relative differences in velocity (how fast it is moving compared to you) affects the perception of time #a clock moving much faster than you will appear to tick slower than an identical clock in your hand #this also happens with gravity!#being close to sufficiently massive (real big) objects means you experience time faster than something far from that object #special relativity is the speed one (things going faster experience time slower)#general relativity is the gravity one (being on planet means experiencing time faster than in space)#if people don’t specify they usually mean special relativity (it has more to do with space travel & decreasing time perceived by passengers)#note: differences in time are all relative #because there is no universal constant of time #what with there being lots of planets and stars and super massive objects and shit going real fast #at the speeds we can go now the time dilation is teeny tiny tho #we can about measure it but it amounts to thousandths of a second over months #so no going into space will not keep you young #but if we yeet musk outta the atmosphere real real real fast #the planet could get away before he gets back to find out if we have all aged faster than him #‘velocity’ is more accurate than ‘speed’…. but only if your audience knows what ‘velocity’ means #if they have no idea but they understand speed speed is the word to use #and yeah you don’t ‘need’ to understand specialist jargon for a field you don’t study #but if it’s hard for anyone else to know what you’re talking about your field is not accessible #i haven’t taken physics since high school #but i can access university level lectures from places like Great Courses #because we have a shared family library and physics is tasty

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krysmcscience · 5 months ago

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I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

#fanart #billford #bill cipher #stanford pines #gravity falls #book of bill #i watched gravity falls because i was curious about all the Toxic Old Man Yaoi on my dash and wanted context #turns out most of the context was in the book of bill tho lmao #look they either banged or married or both while drunk and i will accept no other possibilities #you don't use the phrase 'and one thing led to another' in a PRIVATE JOURNAL if what happened wasn't salacious in some way #i mean - ford didn't exactly grow up in The Most Inclusive Time Period???#dude was probably like 'gotta use this wording for plausible deniability - NO ONE can know i boinked the talking triangle'#in other news - i must bully the baby billy #don't know how much more GF stuff i'll toss up here but i have a few other little scribbles in the works. probably won't color them tho lol #also don't ask me why bill's bowtie stays where it is despite his “pants” being under it. just. just fucking don't ok???#EDIT: oh and since i see this a lot in this fandom for some reason: DO NOT REPOST THIS PLZ K THX :D

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proxycrit · 3 months ago

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LINKTOBER DAY 20: ZORA WELLSPRING

Sidon plays packhorse. Link and Zelda play with electricity and water. Everybody leaves happy except for the fried aerocuda.

(Something’s in the water temple.)

This is a self indulgent totk au called Familiar Familiar where link and zelda travel through upheaval hyrule! Masterpost can be found here:

Patreon here too, if you wanna feed me a slice of bread like a duck

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blabberoo · 2 months ago

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Uuhg i was so tired today 😞 i want to do some quick sketches to relieve pain of having ideas stuck in my mind and can't recreate them because of work

(Just stuff related to this comic)

#gravity falls #au #i still dont know what to name it lmaoo #bill cipher #my art #if ur asking what happened to his hat..thats for spoiler teehee #also i meant to write 'million' mb #post-theraprism #Return to Falls

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knockknockwhosthereartistism · 3 months ago

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Fish want him women fear him

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hummise · 30 days ago

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theseus' guide chapter 8 spoilers !!!

an overly dramatic visualization of the chapter finale that i got way too ambitious with enjoy

#if this doesn't follow the exact description of what's happening it's because i can't read </3 #fr tho just tried to make it match the music as best as i could #and maybe.. sometimes i visualise stuff without actually processing whats written down... who knows #also i am doing so great after all of that yep so normal. normal human behavior #gf theseus' guide #gravity falls #stanford pines #bill cipher #billford #fanart #art #digital art #animatic #artists on tumblr #hummise art

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a-fangirltrash · 5 months ago

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Do u guys think that Fiddleford sometimes accidentaly called Stanford darling, sweetheart and love because he kept mistaking him with his wife hahahah.... and that he was so sleep deprived once that this happened....

Yeah this is canon in my head like this would totally happen, he's not beating the cheating allegations

#fidd: ya know baby... why we only have one kid love #Ford: what kid are you talking about fiddleford?#stanford telling him where rhe sugar is KILLS ME #what if once they stopped when Fidd pushed stanford in the bed LMAOOOO #how many situationships like this happened before.... and how worse they were #also i he doesn't say anything i think he enjoys being called like that #fiddleauthor #stanford pines #fiddauthor #gravity falls #fiddleford mcgucket #fordsquared #fordford #old man yaoi #old man mcgucket

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sunsestart · 6 months ago

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This IS basically journal 3, right?🤨

#I'm not normal about them #never have been #but it got worse cause I decided to re read journal 3 #also funny that the end of this implies the “forget what you were gonna say?happens to me all the time”#might be related to the memory gun LMAO😭#hehe #gravity falls #fiddauthor #fiddleford mcgucket #stanford pines

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vtkuu · 6 months ago

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absolutely love how early on in the Oregon Parks promo campaign everyone was under the tweets being like "alex what is this" "alex we know it's you" "what are you plotting alex" and now everyone is screaming and crying in the replies for Park Ranger Gus Burnside and asking if he's okay

he got the fandom invested in his twitter roleplay character in the span of ~a week. i'm afraid there's nobody doing it like him— anyone who thinks they can pull off a Gravity Falls revival hoax/troll/etc should quit while they're ahead, truly