I have updated my contact info!
It's official. I am a nerd. [academic earth]
March 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
OKAY SO!!! We all know that I am a complete nut about anything science-y… or really learning anything for that matter [ if it interests me ]. I wanted to share this website I found that has thousands of thousands of FREE [yes, free! something that is hard to find these days] partial/full lectures for classes.
Go forth and click this link- Academic Earth
So you can pick your subject (chemistry for instance) pick a class under that [if it's been recorded and available] and watch all the lectures from the semester. That’s free learning. And it will definitely better my science writing [though not my regular writing, because clearly I just started this sentence with the word 'and'] as well as give me lectures to watch so I can add to my infinite little book of knowledge I”m writing in my head. I also know that my best friend G. Tsao will be stalking this [Hi jenna!] and she will also be enamoured by this amazing website as well. SO JENNA! GO HERE!
I also wanted to throw in there that these are lectures from Harvard, Yale etc… so you know it’s good.I honestly feel like a complete dork admitting that this excites me, but what can I say.. constant learning and a thirst for knowledge open up many, many doors… and also keeps my brain from jumping through hoops in my head.
Earth Hour tonight!! See details inside.
March 28, 2009 By 1 Comment
Hi everyone! I don’t know how many of you are aware of this [I certainly wasn't until I read it here and also on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/earth.hour/index.html] but tonight, there’s a worldwide effort for the fight against climate change/global warming, put in by the World Wildlife Foundation [WWF... and I still love saying that because it used to be the wrestling abbreviation til they got their asses kicked!] in order to show that people do indeed care about the earth. If you want to participate it will be occuring during the hour from 8:30-9:30, no matter where you are or what Time Zone you’re in. You have these options to display your support and participation:
- Via Flicker- Take a photo on the night, upload it to Flickr and add it to Earth Hour’s Flickr group and tag it with your city and country.
- Via Video- Make a fun video and upload it to the YouTube group.
- Via Blog Post- Write a live post during the event hour and tag it with earthhour or voteearth, and your location. [this is most likely what I shall be doing, being the little writer that I am]
- Via Twitter- Update your twitter on the night and write #earthhour or #voteearth and your #location in your update to tag it. [I shall also be doing this, because I am a little Twitterbug!]
I hope that you choose to participate in this! I realize it’s easy to think that just because you’re one person your actions won’t make a difference, but when there’s millions of those “one person’s” participating, it leads to something huge and beautiful. Climate change/global warming is a real issue, regardless of the numerous ways people try to debunk it and say it’s false. Be smarter than them. Even if you don’t believe that it’ll help just remember- you’re not losing anything by trying, if anything, there’s a lot to gain. So please! Turn your lights off at 8:30-9:30 your time and let the world know about it :) Thank you. ::bow:: ALSO! I had to edit this and share. I was just watching the space shuttle Discovery make its landing, and I heard the sonic boom from when it was coming down! It sounded like two huge bombs went off on the roof of my house, and it was AMAZINGLY AWESOME! This is one of the reasons that I love florida. It’s great for a science geek like me. Lol
Life is catching up with me!
March 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Well, its been an awfully busy month of march. Which, by the way, is almost over. That is a scary though. I’ve had a ridiculous amount of school work and my poor, poor webpage has been suffering! I feel bad because I’m aware I have a steady stream of viewers and I’ve just been putting the writing off. Tonight I plan on writing something, so check back. I can’t let this go any longer with nothing on it!
Twittersphere!
March 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
lmao this seriously made me laugh out loud. If you use twitter at all, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it
Back from spring break
March 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
well, I had a blast on my spring break! The beach was beautiful when I went, and I got to watch the shuttle launch from right outside my house [because it got canceled like 80 billion times, and I wanted to go to the beach so I didn't care whether the launch was going off or not]. What more could I ask for?! I’ve been really tired this week since classes are back in session, so I haven’t really been inspired [or done anything inspiring] to write about. I’ve been too tired to read my New Scientist magazine, which I have 3 news one of. Anyway, until I formulate a good topic to write about, I wanted to leave you with these. One is a picture of the sunrise at 7:20 AM right in my backyard, and the other, underneath it, is the video from the shuttle launch. Enjoy!
Shuttle Launch! Hoooray!
March 11, 2009 By 3 Comments
Another intermittent post- I’m sorry! I know, I know. I’ve been promising a physics post. I have it saved but I’m trying to make sure that everyone can understand it. I’m trying to break down all the physics-y stuff into laymans terms I guess. To tell you the truth, I think I’ve just been lazy. But anyway, there’s a shuttle launch tomorrow and we’re going to the beach with a friend to watch it :D HOORAY! It should be fun! Although, NASA is on my temporary hit list because they were supposed to have it yesterday but they moved it to today, and today we were prepared to go to the beach and it got effin changed to tomorrow. What were they thinking?! Why on earth would NASA think they could CHANGE a launch date? Geez, way to go NASA. Total dream crushing homewrecker. [Note: total sarcasm right there, in case you couldn't see it].
Tomorrow night I should have a video of it, given that we get there on time and aren’t mobbed by tons of angry beach goers. Byes!
I'm a creative person! on paper!
March 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I wanted to post this article from psychology today-
The Creative Personality
I won’t waste time paraphrasing it because the whole article is pretty rockin’. Basically, it describes the mind of a creative person (writers [read:me], designers, artists, physicists, scientists etc) and sums up how I feel a lot of the time. Of course, some of the things are completely off. It describes creative people as having a lot of energy but by no means hyper, they like to rest etc. THAT is totally not me, seeing as I always want to be doing SOMETHING. Aside from that though, it’s pretty on point. It’s not often you get to read an actual article from psychology today that demystifies the idea of the “creative” mind. Enjoy! And as usual… check back for the post I’m working on currently.
Science & Progress
March 9, 2009 By 1 Comment
I do have a post that I’m currently formulating (it’s about physics, so if you don’t care to read it don’t check back. But it shall be interesting!) BUT! I wanted to put this little post in here because…. OBAMA JUST ANNOUNCED THAT HE LIFTED THE BAN ON STEM CELL RESEARCH!! How exciting is that?!?!?! Hate me all you want, but I am a complete supporter of it. I know we all walk the fine line of “what is considered human” and “at one point does something feel” but… this is a necessary step forward in science to allow us to study and research things we weren’t before! I wrote a post on stem cell research last year so….hooray obama! thank you.
Please stay tuned in the next few days for my ACTUAL post. Bahahaha.
Robots, Australians and Didjeridoos, oh my!
March 4, 2009 By 1 Comment
Okay sooo. I wasn’t going to write anything tonight because I haven’t really looked through my new magazine that came today, but I came across this on engadget.com that was pretty freaky looking. 1) Because robots are doing housework and 2) I’ve always been convinced that robots with artificial intelligence will slowly take over the world. This lovely, beautiful and metal endowed beasts are named “DESIRE” and “Rollin’ Justin”. It’s true. I tell you no lies. See video below and continue reading underneath that.
Pretty much, it replaces a physical person who would stay at an elder person’s house in order to assure that somebody(thing) is there to do difficult tasks.. which clearly consists of throwing out cans and taking out the garbage. Since I STILL don’t feel like writing much tonight, I think I’ll wrap this up. I do have some other nonsensical things on my agenda that I want to discuss though.
NIP/TUCK! Which I just typo-ed as HIP/TUCK! Which… would make sense also I guess. You can tuck hips right? Or would that just be liposuction?? Anyway- The season finale was on Tuesday night and it was WEIRD. I’ve been watching the show for years and it was weird enough to make me THINK it was weird. Nip/Tuck is already a really strange show, so you can imagine what went on in the finale. I won’t tell you what happens (who knows if you still have to watch it?! I refuse to ruin your pre-planned Nip/Tuck night and accost you with details) but please make sure you watch it!
Also! The stamp collector! Has ANYBODY seen that movie? I was thinking about it because I said something about lying up there, and the line from the movie goes like so-
Tommy Tricker- “Ask me a question, and I tellllll you no liiiiies”
It’s from the 80′s I think, ’cause I watched it when I was a kid, but nobody else has seen it! It has the kid who rides on the stamp, and gets kicked around from place to place, and ends up in Australia trying to escape from some Didjeridoo toting crazy Aussie with kangaroos! While that sounds like I’m on some strange hallucinogenic, I assure you that it exists! Anyway. I think I spent too much time today studying. I sound like a maniac. Good night.