“Your job — as students who are receiving an education — is to be aware of your privilege. And use this particular privilege called “education” to do your best to achieve great things, all the while advocating for those in the rows behind you.”
In honor of the new year, I’ve decided to reblog my Top 10 Facts from 2016. I hope you enjoy them!
(In theory, you should… cuz they’re the ones you liked the most)
#4). NASA’s Space Travel Posters
NASA created retro travel posters for different locations in our solar system in hopes of inspiring young people to imagine a future where common space travel is a possibility.
You make decisions more rationally if you think about them in a foreign language. Trying to process a second vocabulary eliminates your immediate emotional instincts, which makes you think more analytically and reduces your need to avoid the possibility of loss. Source
‘The Writer,’ 1 of 3 surviving automata
from the 18th century, is a programmable
boy that uses quill and ink to write any 40
letters of custom text. This 240-year-old
automaton uses all 6,000 of its parts to
create just enough pressure for fluid,
elegant writing, and is thought by
some to be the first computer. Source
