sideshow-bib:

Want to get smarter during your commute? There are a lot of fantastic podcasts that will teach you new things in a thoroughly entertaining way. Here are 13 podcasts that will expand your brain with cutting-edge science and cutlural analysis.

palmtreepalmtree:

They are refreshing because their choices are so unexpected, and their choices are unexpected because they actually have them.

Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times TV Critic, demonstrating yet again, why she is a Pulitzer finalist, and one of the best critics out there.

sideshow-bib:

Making a grilled cheese sandwich isn’t rocket science, but making a great grilled cheese sandwich is a bit of an art. Thankfully, J. Kenji López-Alt over at Serious Eats shows us how to get the best grilled cheese every time. For starters: grill both sides of the bread, then add the cheese.

astronomynerd:

I highly encourage my followers to view this.

I help run this (it’s incredibly fun) - it’s an astronomy lecture open to the public, completely free, at Harvard-Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics.

If you cannot make it to Cambridge for this event, you can view it online live and watch previous lectures.

(via jennhoney)

quotesfromfiction:

Every year, the American Library Association sponsors “National Library Week,” a week for nerds, book lovers, book worms, and the like to revel in the awe.

National Library Week is April 14th to the 20th! Is your library celebrating?

(Source: writersprocrastinate, via eebees)

wnycradiolab:

We’re now accepting apps for summer!

wnycradiolab:

Robert Krulwich found some videos of quadrocopter robots doing…well, very impressive things. 

daddynobucks:

Goodbye sleep. 

ohapoeticsoul:

Some guidelines for loving:

1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.

2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real…

(via seriouslysassy)