Glasgow, UK
So, that was a good solid 12 hours of procrastination. Now onto my last 1500 words. Yay…. Kill me now :(
YOU CAN DO IT!!
Yes.
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Seamus Finnegan and the Year He Blew Shit Up By Accident.
Seamus Finnegan and the Year He Blew Shit Up By Accident.
Seamus Finnegan and the Year He Blew Shit Up By Accident.
Seamus Finnegan and the Year He Blew Shit Up By Accident.
Seamus Finnegan and the Year He Blew Shit Up By Accident.
Seamus Finnegan and the Year He Blew Shit Up By Accident.
Seamus Finnegan and the Year He Had Permission To Blow Shit Up.
In his second year of neuroscience grad school, Greg Dunn was moonlighting with a different kind of experiment: blowing ink across pieces of paper. The neuron-like pattern it formed was instantly recognizable to him as a neuroscientist. “Ink spreads because it wants to go in the direction of less resistance, and that’s probably also the case of when branches grow or neurons grow,” he says. “The reason the technique works really well is because it’s directly related to how neurons are actually behaving.”
Dunn calls this the “fractal solution to the universe,” which he sees as the “fundamental beauty of nature.” He’s fascinated that this branching pattern holds true across orders of magnitude, whether that’s nanometers for neurons, centimeters for ink, or meters for a tree branch.
Since graduating with his PhD last fall, Dunn has continued to spend his days with neurons—big, golden ones ten thousand times the size of neurons in your brain. The former University of Pennsylvania grad student now creates paintings of neurons for a living.
I finally got to see Avengers yesterday. It was awesome but this is not about Avengers, it is about how all the feminist classes I have taken and knowledge I have gain has ruined the my enjoyment of media. Yesterday while the preview were playing I was using the Bechdel test on them. They all failed. Not only did they all fail, but one preview “The Expendables 2” didn’t have any women in it and… it was mostly things being blown up, the entire preview. The concept of the movie it’s self is kind of amusing, sure, take all the old famous action heroes and put them all in a movie together. But… also… how many movies of aging women do you see out there. Also this movie was clearly made for “manly men.” It was so full of action that at the end on of the men in the audience joked “so is this a romance movie? Is it a chick flick?” To the amusement of all the rest of us.
The second trailer was for “Battleship” this one did have a woman in it, and she was a woman of color. However, she said one word in the trailer “boom” and I didn’t see any other women.
As for Avengers itself… there were strong women characters in the movie, after all Joss Whedon is a feminist. But I don’t think they ever talked to each other so I believe it failed the Bechdel test. Also when I was talking to my mom about it she said “I had never heard of Black Widow. Who is she? Why have I not heard of her?” And my comment was “Because she is a woman.” (sigh) But seriously, I want a movie about her cause I think it would be awesome.
This part made me laugh so much.
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Mr Cumber Butch Sherlock star shows off toned physique in Los Angeles (x)
A new video in which I discuss traditional marriage, religion, intersexuality, the idea of marriage as a covenant, and the legal rights of gay people to marry.
Thank you John Green, Thank you. But my one correction would be… lets call it Same-Sex marriage, not Gay marriage please.
