raindancejodi:

post–grad:

i’m back at my ancestral home (lowe’s) and I just watched a very burly man in a lot of flannel carry a potted orchid SO TENDERLY across the parking lot

A sentence that starts with “i’m back at my ancestral home (lowe’s)” has to work really hard to make the end of that sentence equally as amazing and by god you’ve done it

friendlytroll:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

pervocracy:

Fun statistical fact: Cows are about 300 times more likely to kill you than coyotes.

Minor sidenote to statistical fact: If it was common for people to keep several hundred coyotes on their property and routinely chase them into a corral and handle them, this statistic would be different.

this is a great summary of ‘conditional probability’, a statistical property many people grapple with 

…I feel like this post just made me realize that both coconut trees and vending machines, items often quoted in wacky death statistics, are both things that people shake vigorously often

Doctors: Teenagers brains don’t fully work until 10am.
Schools: Let’s start at 8.
Doctors: But-
Schools: Ya 8 sounds good.
Doctors: …
Schools: Why are all these students failing?
Schools: Why are they always so tired?
Schools: Why is everyone so stressed out?
Doctors: Fuck you.
Students: I wanna die.