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brightTopic: Science and Health
Blogging is actually a form of journeying online. A memorandum of where you have surfed online, as the vast ocean of information one encounters, it is a good way of flesching wheat from chaff and collating information, proving cohesiveness from othewise disparate bits of information to form a larger picture.
It can streamline your base generalizations and bookmark foundation support of your most basic assertions.
It appears mine has become a scrapbook of the world, interspersed with human memory and my events, a MySpace for moi, but deeper than rock videos and flashy gifs; it chronicles my net experiences in dips and dives in net-time, in peaks and flatlines, and is not dissimilar to a growth chart.
Or, on a larger scale of a word picture: sedimentary rock; as one level of an information layer is covered by another.
It is utterly amazing to think, through the act of sharing and telling, in remembering that the surest way to actually help your self remember something is to immediately tell someone else; by commiting things to blog with a purpose in mind: to enlighten, entertain, inform, educate my self, offer an alternative creatively to strictly intellectual blogs, I can actually remember blog entries I made a few years ago.
Specifically, an entry I made about Nobel Prize winners for discoveries about bacterial infection being implicated in stomach ulcers.
Those that have read about it in The Economist may have simply forgotten about it, those that read it in the paper may have forgotten about it, even those who read it in my blog when it actually WAS news may have forgotten about it. But because of the effort involved in making such an entry, it becomes something that becomes indelibily a part of you.
Which brings me to todays entry and a book cover, a quote and snippet from the forward to that book, a link to a YouTube video for a fascinating riveting 10 minute dissertion on women and science (you will be surprised) and a current event that also highlights and plays UP the role women have played in science over the years.
During my film industry related course last year, in a public presentation I made on G.E. (I was so glad and proud to be feeling that special attachment to Geoff Immelt , who surely could be the next President of the United States as far as I'm concerned), I was thrilled to learn and later report that the first woman scientist ever employed by General Electric was responsible for inventing reflection free glass, and other discoveries that are used in the photo and film industries today.
I hope you enjoy making these types of discoveries, as there always seems to be something new to learn everyday, and how often do we hear of such discoveries made quite literally by sheer accident?
From Viagra creation taking a left turn on its way to help heart patients, from Post-It notes incubated in a accidental lab of convenience and velcro being invented by chance, there are a lot of stories that share that common thread.
But today, as I wrote here trapped inside my den of a makeshift office,the very remains of the day. i.e. the smell of campfire and soot still penetrating my senses, my town is enshrouded in a deep fog like cloud of forest fire smoke.
And peoples nerves are frayed to edges. Its definitely not pretty, and its utterly annoying as a mere afterthought to think human carelessness (or even outright stupidity) could be a causal factor, and yet we think of children and the elderly first, and in between news of shootings, robberies and unsolved crimes in our city ..try to stuff it into the book ends of politics and love. And our outright love of the forest and its wildness and beauty and support of life itself.
So , for today, in my location with the forest burning in hundreds of places in my province, and people I share a province with now living on the edge wondering if an evacuation notice will come and force them to leave their homes; its fitting to try to look beyond the immediate horizon, which may be obfuscated from view; to try to see the reasoning behind the pure logic of a planet for the sharing, to find some solace in solidarity with others ...whether it be flooding in Pakistan to forest fires in Russia.
Together we can learn and work towards some common good.
"The rising temperature of the Earth is seeking to say something about the arrogance of man that has become the biggest challenge of the future of the Earth. The Earth is changing and has stopped enduring all..."- http://www.shaktibharath.org/kwsc/
and as promised...
Book TV: Julie Des Jardins, "The Madame Curie Complex"
Julie Des Jardins talks about the many contributions that women have made to science. She talks about the work of Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin, Rosalyn Yalow, Barbara McClintock, and Rachel Carson.- http://youtu.be/1MaEcDujkwk
post bloggers note: equally fascinating to me is that the stalwart stubborness of Madame Curie ..would only be met with the pitched passion and ferocity in equal form only from the man who later become her husband ...who convinced her to give up her ideal of teaching to continue with her experiments. How much he prized her.
