Epic Funny: The most awesome responses to celebrities’ tweets.

See this and weep at your insignificance as it relates to the size of the universe.

Yep. Pretty much.

Wait what? Iran has an army of highly-trained female ninjas? This is literally blowing my mind. As a kid, and even today, I call veiled and women that wear the hijab ninjas! These women are literally ninjas. Like literally! Mind blown.

Wouldnt it be nice if the US had real democracy? Like the one in say… Pakistan? Oh thats right… Pakistan is lawless. I forgot.

One constantly hears in American political discourse that Pakistan is so terribly un-democratic because the shadowy, omnipotent ISI functions with no accountability or transparency. Yet here they are being ordered by that nation’s highest court to account for serious detainee abuse (this, despite the fact that Pakistan’s problems with Terrorism are, at the very least, as pressing as those faced by the U.S.).

New Scientist on the power of math equations.

Without equations, most of our technology would never have been invented. Of course, important inventions such as fire and the wheel came about without any mathematical knowledge. Yet without equations we would be stuck in a medieval world.