I spent too many years thinking Michael Jackson had a thing for girls who worked in libraries.

Keyboard shortcuts for special characters is a pretty handy thing to have. But combined with the Inter font, it’s hours of fun!

The irony. Most of the men on the Most Beautiful Man site look like big girl’s blouses.

I thought we’d left ‘teacher’s pets’ behind in infant school but apparently they’re still allowed to exist at university level.
“But Dr. Flababa, wouldn’t you say that this should be blah blah blah di blah blah?”
Yes, please ask more meaningless questions that you know the answer to and you’re just asking so everyone will know how clever and all knowing you are. ‘Cos that’ll make us love you even more. Twat.

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The Renaissance has been defined as a rebirth of knowledge and revival of art and literature originating in Italy in the fifteenth century. This revival led to the revolution in the arts, which had an immense effect on the “understanding of the world of nature”. A revolution in physics and astronomy changed Western cosmology and greatly influenced the development of modern science. “Measurement, observation, experiment and classification” were beginning to be used on a much wider scale. Debus states that the period between the mid-fifteenth and end of the eighteenth century saw an important growth in “cultural and political influence of Western Europe over all other parts of the globe”. It can be said that science gets invented in the Scientific Revolution. The word scientia had long been in use, but it meant something like “knowledge.” There was no notion of a discipline called Science, and no one described themselves as being scientists or scientific. By the early 1700s, there were Academies of Science, and the word “science” had the specific definition we use today.

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