What Comes Easy Won't Last. What Lasts Wont Come Easy.

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra (via quotemadness)

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

-Elie Wiesel when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, in the New York Times 11 December 1986.

I hide because there’s more to me than what you see and I’m not sure you’d like the rest. I know that sometimes, I don’t like the rest.

Iain Thomas (via quotemadness)

Coin flip.

“One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

Ziad K. Abdelnourp

You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.

Jeffrey Eugenides (via quotemadness)

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Moore (via quotemadness)

So, our physics teacher has the strange idea of motivating his students by letting each of us present a physical phenomenal we find interesting to our classmates in a 5-minutes-presentation. And now I need something that is interesting for everyone - even people that usually don't care for physics -, but has interesting facts for someone who's interested in it, too (preferably with an easy experiment). You don't happen to have any ideas, do you?

First of all, your professor is awesome for taking the time to do this. Of the top of my mind, the best one I have is Chladni figures.

Basically take a flat metal plate, fix it at the center and spray some fine sand particles on it.

Using a violin bow, gently excite any edge of the plate to magically witness these beautiful normal mode patterns ( known as Chladni patterns/figures ) forming on the plate.

Also notice that by pinching the plate at different points, the pattern obtained changes.

There is a whole lot of physics that goes behind such a simple phenomenon and I dare say we understand it completely. There are lots of questions on these figures that we have no answer for!

Hope this helps with your presentation. Have a good one!

Gif source video: Steve Mould

Wind whispering something low

It tells me things I shouldn't know

How to catch stars in butterfly nets

And where the moon goes when it sets

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor

No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.

Maya Mendoza (via faronmckenzie)