A Haiku About Feeling Addicted To My Phone From 4/3/24

can’t focus on work. can only think of that one lesbian poem about chivalry

cardboard man    4/12/21

a box of a man

controlled by cardboard and tape 

stiff and stumbling

4/5/22 (2)

Hello! Took a little break from posting haikus because I was in Spain, but I’m back!

Question: should I start titling my haikus?

The Genius of Marie Curie

Growing up in Warsaw in Russian-occupied Poland, the young Marie Curie, originally named Maria Sklodowska, was a brilliant student, but she faced some challenging barriers. As a woman, she was barred from pursuing higher education, so in an act of defiance, Marie enrolled in the Floating University, a secret institution that provided clandestine education to Polish youth. By saving money and working as a governess and tutor, she eventually was able to move to Paris to study at the reputed Sorbonne. here, Marie earned both a physics and mathematics degree surviving largely on bread and tea, and sometimes fainting from near starvation. 

In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium spontaneously emitted a mysterious X-ray-like radiation that could interact with photographic film. Curie soon found that the element thorium emitted similar radiation. Most importantly, the strength of the radiation depended solely on the element’s quantity, and was not affected by physical or chemical changes. This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element. The idea was radical and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects. Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende, the Curies realized that uranium alone couldn’t be creating all the radiation. So, were there other radioactive elements that might be responsible?

In 1898, they reported two new elements, polonium, named for Marie’s native Poland, and radium, the Latin word for ray. They also coined the term radioactivity along the way. By 1902, the Curies had extracted a tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride salt from several tons of pitchblende, an incredible feat at the time. Later that year, Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel were nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics, but Marie was overlooked. Pierre took a stand in support of his wife’s well-earned recognition. And so both of the Curies and Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Prize, making Marie Curie the first female Nobel Laureate.

In 1911, she won yet another Nobel, this time in chemistry for her earlier discovery of radium and polonium, and her extraction and analysis of pure radium and its compounds. This made her the first, and to this date, only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Professor Curie put her discoveries to work, changing the landscape of medical research and treatments. She opened mobile radiology units during World War I, and investigated radiation’s effects on tumors.

However, these benefits to humanity may have come at a high personal cost. Curie died in 1934 of a bone marrow disease, which many today think was caused by her radiation exposure. Marie Curie’s revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. For good or ill, her discoveries in radiation launched a new era, unearthing some of science’s greatest secrets.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose

Animation by Anna Nowakowska

a show about love 

4/3/22 (2)

When I see this picture, I feel comforted. This feels so familiar.

Last night, I got into some conversations with my friends about life, heaven, past lives and future lives. I will never know who or what I lived in my past or future, because the only plane that we truly know is real, and the only one we have control over is the present. But I see an image like this, I know I’ve been these before. I’ve swam in these water, basked in these iridescent light beams.

And I look foreword to the moment I get to do it all again.

Yes yes YES

I've always been a bit unsatisfied with how Adventure Time dropped Finn's desperation to find other humans. Like, yeah I know they sort of brought it up again with Islands, but here's the thing: you're telling me that Finn-- the boy who got that excited about Susan maybe being human-- wouldn't go nuts over Betty's introduction to Ooo?????

I think a more satisfying arc for both Finn and Betty would've been Finn seeking her out to ask all these questions about Human Things he's never been able to ask anyone before (especially since this takes place after his and Flame Princess' breakup)!! And he would want to help her in her quest to bring Simon back-- at least, until he starts becoming torn between the morality of it and his selfish desire to be around more humans.

uuUUAUGHGHH just imagine how fabulous the conflict would've been 🤌🤌

this is the best video ive ever seen 

The Star and The Hermit

You've gone out to see who's splashing around in your pool at this hour of the night.