I'm a post-bacc student rediscovering my love of truly learning. I follow back my fellow studyblrs :-)
“Pooh and his friends were given as gifts by author A. A. Milne to his son Christopher Robin Milne between 1920 and 1922. Pooh was purchased in London at Harrods for Christopher’s first birthday. Christopher later gave them to publisher E. P. Dutton, who in turn donated them to the New York Public Library.”
Oh my god. Oh my god.
This is them, guys. This is them. Got chills.
1 more page to go before I’m done with this criminal justice paper…………………………….it feels like it’s the longest page ever.
“The simple fact is that people who achieve excellence in their fields didn’t just have a dream. They got up at 4:00 am to practice on parallel bars or had to forgo other desirable activities and paths in order to get in six hours of violin practice a day, or stayed off several million absurd writing advice blogs with their overheated little cliques that dispense useless regurgitated maxims and empty praise and decide to actually confront their own thoughts on a page. Or they read Beowulf and Dante carefully and deeply when they didn’t see any point, since all they were interested in was Sylvia Plath, because someone of more experience and wisdom told them to do so. I don’t know whether we’re overly lazy, stupid, or childish these days. But the idea of preparing oneself for excellence has somehow disappeared. So – my advice to dreamers: Don’t just follow your dreams. Earn them. Do what it takes to achieve it. Work for it. Don’t just sit there and dream because if you do, it will never, ever be yours.”
– Harrison Solow, Don’t Follow Your Dream
(via crimsun)
Artist Stanislava Pinchuck, a.k.a. Miso, offers beautifully minimalist, simple tattoos in exchange for thoughtful acts from friends and family.
I kinda want to get one of these with Sierra but I don’t know where id have it on me.
My delicious (half-eaten) dinner of 2 eggs, 3 strips of turkey bacon, and roasted butternut squash. SO FREAKING GOOD.
I had some leftover uncooked squash from the butternut squash lasagna I made for thanksgiving. I seasoned it with salt and a little diced garlic, popped it into a pan that I sprayed with Pam, and let it cook for 30 minutes at 400 degrees. So basically by the time I was done unpacking and changing from school, it was done.
Make sure you are all taking care of yourselves during finals! Eat good food to fuel your body.
WHYYY THE FUCK DOES THIS EDIT FIT SO WELL I’M SCREEAAMINGGG LMFAOOO EJKGB`S;F
GO AWF!
Women In Science by meganleestudio // meganlee.etsy.com
• Mary Anning - fossil collector and paleontologist whose discovreies made fundamental changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
• Ada Lovelace - mathematician considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.
• Marie Curie - pioneer in the field of radioactivity, as well as the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry.
• Lise Meitner - nuclear physicist who was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission.
• Emmy Noether - mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
• Cecelia Payne - astronomer and astrophysicist who discovered that the universe is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.
• Barbara McClintock - cytogeneticist best known for her discovery of transposition which she used to demonstrate that genes are responsible for turning physical characteristics on and off.
• Grace Hopper - computer scientist who developed the COBOL computer programming language.
• Rachel Carson - marine biologist, conservationist, and author known for advancing the environmental movement.
• Dorothy Hodgkin - biochemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules.
• Hedy Lamarr - both a popular Hollywood actress and an inventor who contributed to an early technique for frequency-hopping spread spectrum communications which paved the way for today’s wireless communications.
• Rosalind Franklin - biophysicist whose work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA led to her discovery of DNA double helix and her data was used to formulate Crick and Watson’s 1953 hypothesis.
• Esther Lederberg - microbiologist who devised the first successful implementation of replica plating and helped discover and understand the genetic mechanisms of specialized transduction.
• Jane Goodall - anthropologist and primatologist known for her extraordinary study of the interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell - astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars (signals coming from rapidly rotating neutron stars).
• Mae Jemison - engineer, physician, professor, and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American woman to travel to space.
Listen to Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, and remember her son for who he really was. Remember Michael Brown and remember all the other black lives lost to police brutality and an unjust system.
Lol “he was just doing his job”
So were nazi soldiers“Its the law”
It was once illegal for black people to readFuck out my face
you’re not welcome here;
“Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or more sonically pleasing. Its international usage comes from forceful assimilation and legacy of colonialistic injection. It isn’t a deed that one should take pride in.”
– my uncle left this comment on his friend’s Facebook status, a white British man who was bragging about how easy it is to be a native English speaker when trekking to different nations. (via commanderspock)
Across campus, in a second-floor windowless room, four students huddle around an odd, 3-foot-tall frame constructed of PVC pipe. They have equipped it with propellers, cameras, lights, a laser, depth detectors, pumps, an underwater microphone, and an articulated pincer. At the top sits a black, waterproof briefcase containing a nest of hacked processors, minuscule fans, and LEDs. It’s a cheap but astoundingly functional underwater robot capable of recording sonar pings and retrieving objects 50 feet below the surface. The four teenagers who built it are all undocumented Mexican immigrants who came to this country through tunnels or hidden in the backseats of cars. They live in sheds and rooms without electricity. But over three days last summer, these kids from the desert proved they are among the smartest young underwater engineers in the country.
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