The incredibly talented @arte_de_gustavo is painting my likeness from a photo @shannon_brooke took of me for @mrsawdust’s #sinkorswim Tattoo in Grover Beach, California. What a humbling honor, and wonderful friends all around. #gustavorimada #ivydmuerta #shannonbrooke #tattoo #shoppe #paint #art #fineart
Haha reminds me of when I worked in a generic office.
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My happy place. Nothing feels more like home than being in the middle of a forest. I was 15 when I applied to work for a Summer job with Yosemite National Park; Those three months were brutal, beautiful, and life changing. I worked in the back country of the park for the majority of the time and I quickly realized it wouldn’t be an easy ordeal. After the first month I begged my parents to pick me up and take me home. I’m thankful to this day that they didn’t cave into my whining and that I was able to persevere and complete what would become an epic adventure and first job. Not easy for a teenage girl to do, I could have been off partying and being a jackass like many other teens but I chose to do something I didn’t know I would like or not. Something challenging and out of the ordinary. I guess I still do that, and I’m grateful. That job truly opened my eyes and matured me beyond my years to the beauty and true importance of life. I have gone camping since I was a little girl, and still go at least once a year. Feeling self reliant, yet so minuscule keeps ones perspective on track and is always humbling. Nature shows you that, and nothing can compare to falling asleep under the stars knowing how little you are in the great expanse of the universe.
The most stunning and deeply profound wisdoms ever put to words by Carl Sagan. His humbling words and dreams shared with equally spectacular images. What more one could want!
APOD, 2013 May 7 Galaxy Cove Vista
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo(Deep Sky Colors)Explanation: To see a vista like this takes patience, hiking, and a camera. Patience was needed in searching out just the right place and waiting for just the right time. A short hike was needed to reach this rugged perch above a secluded cove in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in California, USA. And a camera was needed for the long exposure required to bring out the faint light from stars and nebulae in the background Milky Way galaxy. Moonlight and a brief artificial flash illuminated the hidden beach and inlet behind nearby trees in the above composite image taken about two weeks ago. Usually obscured McWay Falls is visible just below the image center, while the Pacific Ocean is in view to its right.
- Newtonian gravity is your high school girlfriend. As your first encounter with physics, she’s amazing. You will never forget Newtonian gravity, even if you’re not in touch very much anymore.
- Electrodynamics is your college girlfriend. Pretty complex, you probably…
You don’t need good mathematics to be a scientist
When biologist E. O. Wilson gave seemingly counterintuitive advice in his book Letters to a Young Scientist, it didn’t go down well – in the media at least
YOU don’t have to be good at mathematics, a high IQ may be a hindrance, and seek goals where others don’t to make for easy wins. Such advice from science giant E. O. Wilson could only cause upset.
In Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson offers searingly honest – and, some argue, incorrect – counsel. An article based on the book in The Wall Street Journal last month caused uproar among the mathematically minded.
In the article and the book he describes how many successful scientists are mathematically “semiliterate”, and reveals how, as a 32-year-old Harvard professor, he sat with undergraduates (some his own students) to learn calculus and achieve an undistinguished C. His aim is not to deter, but to encourage talented would-be scientists who aren’t naturals with numbers. The “haemorrhage of brainpower” must be staunched.
Controversy aside, Wilson’s plain advice is refreshing, and the book, with lovely vignettes of his career, should inspire. Many tips are pragmatic: don’t be lured by a field’s “glamorous aura”, prizewinning scientists and big grants, but “go where the least action is occurring”. Some tips seem like heresy but make sense: forget the hive mind and let the solitary brain wander and dream. A few are a little dubious, brutal even. “Real scientists do not take vacations,” Wilson decrees. Fine – but only if you have his career.
Overall, you could hardly find a better mentor than Wilson. Jaded mid-careerers struggling with lab politics, egocentric colleagues, hazy career paths in the face of cuts and few tenured positions may well disagree. But Wilson has advice for them, stressing how much of the world is yet to be explored by science. “You are needed,” he urges, reassuringly.
Skilfully and elegantly written, many of Wilson’s tips could also apply to other careers. As he says: “The scientist is part poet, and by pleasure drawn from new ways to express old truths, the poet is part scientist.”
This article appeared in print under the headline “My advice is…”
See now don’t let the daunting thoughts of “not being good at math” hold you back from being a badass Scientist saving the world and shit.
Eloquently spoken, I know…
“Universes Evolve Inside Black Holes” —Radical Theories from ESO and Oxford
Cosmological natural selection – an idea first put forward in the 1990s to explain the apparent ‘fine-tuning’ of the universe’s basic parameters to allow for the existence of atoms, galaxies, and life itself- proposes that, if new universes are born inside black holes, a ‘multiverse’ of many possible universes could be shaped by a process similar to natural selection so that successive generations of universes evolve to become better at making black holes.
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I have known this but signal boost for all that don’t!
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I don’t usually reblog these things but oh my god signal boost this is terrible. :(
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Blog-o-rama. Be prepared for random shit.
Model and Author.
HOCKEY, METAL, LAUGHTER, SCIENCE.
