30.11.2017
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30.11.2017
ending the year with two weeks of year 12 before summer!! i'm terrified yet excited for the new year, largely because i finally get to do politics, which is quickly becoming my favourite subject ❤️
What do you think about the arab-israeli conflict?
oooooo boy what a question this is gonna be a long one
first off, the palestinians were absolutely ripped off. like of course they were gonna be pissed, some western country that only gives a shit about them for their resources just gave half their land to a group of people they really couldn’t care less about and expected all the displaced people to be fine with it? surely there would have been a better way of giving the jews some of their homeland but also enough land for them without just cutting a whole country in half
and then, when the palestinians were like “what the fuck we gotta do something about this” and neighbouring arab states were starting to get a bit pissy about their new neighbours along with the west messing things up as they do, they try and fight back against israel, only to have israel completely demolish them at every turn (nasser literally just wanted a canal like come on you don’t gotta take his whole peninsula, not to mention destroying 300 of egypt’s aircraft on the first day of the six-day was before it had even left the ground) and just got even more land and power which they had no right to, and eventually just taking the whole of palestine for themselves and forcing all the people that lived there to either flee for jordan or some other close arab state or live in fear in their own country
i can’t say i agree with terrorism or attacking civilians but it’s pretty understandable that the palestinians were mad and the only way they knew to fight back was using guerrilla warfare, not that it made an awful lot of difference since israel was funded and armed almost entirely by the us and developed one of the world’s strongest militaries to keep the land they’d managed to capture and occupy
and at this point it’s gonna take a miracle to stop both sides from fighting and get them to just talk and actually deal with the problem at hand instead of just blowing each other up and calling it progress
so basically, while i sympathise mainly with the palestinians, i wish there was a diplomatic way for both sides to get as much of what they want as possible without anymore bloodshed
How to Take Notes: from a Textbook
(Be sure to change the post type from link to text post when you reblog, if that’s what you want to do)
This method is best suited for textbook or article notes, and is a version of revised notes. It is also well suited for books you plan on returning to the bookstore or books you have rented, as it does not involve writing directly in the book itself.
First, you’ll need to find a notebook, and the pens you like the best. My favorite notebooks to work with for note-taking, especially for my “revised” notes, are the Moleskine, hard or soft cover, in size extra large. For this specific class (Intro to Gender and Women’s Studies), I decided that lined pages would suit my needs better. For my math, engineering, and science classes, I usually opt for squared paper, as I draw in lots of diagrams and graphs.
My favorite pens ever are Staedtler Triplus Fineliners, so even though they show through the pages a little bit, I still choose to use them. I just love the way they write. I usually write out my notes themselves with a Pilot G2 05 with black ink, as it writes with a finer line and doesn’t bleed through quite as much.
I usually try to set up my notebooks about a week or so before class starts, that way it’s ready to go on my first day of class.
You’ll want to start off by setting up your notebook. On my first page, I put my course code for my university, as well as the course title.
Next, and this is perfectly optional (I just like the way it makes the book look, especially at the end of the semester), I include some sort of related quote to the course. For my engineering courses (which are related to my major), I put a different quote at the beginning of each section. But as this is a two-month long course during the summer, I opted for one quote by Mohadesa Najumi at the beginning of my book.
Next I set up my table of contents and include a page with basic course information. As this course is all online, my course information just included the start and end dates of the course, what time content is posted and on what day, and the name of my professor. For my usual courses, I will include the days of the week the class meets on and where, TA names and contact info, as well as posted office hours for my professors and TAs and tutoring hours either in the library or in the College of Engineering.
Next is one of the things I’m most proud of.
While I religiously use my Erin Condren planner to map out my days, weeks, and months, I have found throughout my college experience that including monthly views for the months my class ranges has been helpful. This way, there’s no sifting through the multiple colors I have in my planner, and everything related to that class is in the same notebook.
On this calendar I include start dates of the class, the end date, the dates of exams or quizzes, assignment deadlines, office hours, etc.
For this course, as I just started a few days ago, I don’t have a lot of dates or information, so my calendars are still very empty.
Next up I go to my weekly overview. At the beginning of each week, I set up a weekly layout, and I include a list of assignments, tests, quizzes, tasks, projects, etc that need my attention throughout the week, and I place the days I plan on doing them or the days they need turned in onto the weekly layout.
Now you’re finally ready to get into taking the notes.
Gather your book, some sticky notes, and your favorite pen or pencil.
I color code my stickies so that the “revision” process later goes a bit smoother. In this case, I’m using blue to denote something interesting, intriguing, or thought provoking, greenish-yellow to represent the facts or important concepts, and pink for important vocabulary words and their definitions.
Read the selection once.
As you read along the second time, write notes on your stickies, and place them in a place of relevance directly on the page in the book. Just make sure you don’t cover up anything you need to keep reading.
Now, once you’ve read all the material in questions (you can choose to break it up however you want, but since Chapter 1 was assigned for the week, I’ve elected to break it into chapters), carefully remove your stickies one by one and lay them out on a flat surface. This is when having a separate color for vocab can be helpful, as I sometimes put all of my vocab at the beginning or end of a section, especially if the section of reading was particularly large.
Organize your stickies in an order that makes sense to you, and use this order as your basis for transferring those notes into your notebook. The order you choose can just be lumping them under similar headings. Some classes even lend themselves to a nice chronological order. Whatever you choose, just make sure it’s something that will make sense to you when you come back to it in the end.
Okay so up there I wasn’t following my own advice, I just thought I would include the picture because my handwriting looks nice…
Now organize the stickies!
Now you just start writing everything from the stickies into your notebook. I like to take each category or subgroup and put them in the book on the facing page, then put them back in my textbook as I finish with each post it.
Moving on to the next category.
Before you know it, you’ve written all of your stickies into your notebooks.
Now you’re revved up and ready to go. You can either keep going and make a note summary page (which I’ll show you next week), or you can leave it. These will also be helpful when reviewing for tests and quizzes. You can highlight or underline, or use even more stickies (which is what I usually do) as you review.
Well, that’s all I have for you right now. Happy studying!
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29.10.2017
the arab-israeli conflict is A Mess™ and studying it both intrigues me and makes me incredibly frustrated i love it
how did you find out what you want to do after school?
it honestly took me so long to even have an idea of what i wanted to do, until like the middle of year ten (so mid last year) i had absolutely no clue. it wasn’t until i went to a lecture about space that i kinda started getting interested in astrophysics, then we watched a documentary about the origins of the earth in science and i got a bit more interested in it, and then i did some of my own research into it and it was just really interesting that i wanted to learn more and it’s kinda grown from there
if you have no idea what you want to do with your life that is absolutely fine. no way in a million years if you’d told me at the start of last year that i’d be planning to do an astrophysics course in uni would i have believed you, but eventually you’ll have that moment of “holy shit, this is so cool, i want to do this forever”. i didn’t think it would happen for me, but hey here we are
just keep doing what you’re interested in and try to keep as many options open as possible and eventually you’ll find that thing that excites you enough to make a career out of it, good luck x
Where did you get your spiral bound notebook with the dreamcatcher on the front? It's so cute!!
thanks!! i got it as a gift for my birthday, but i’m pretty sure it was from typo 😊
17.08.2016
the cold war is one of my favourite times in history i've ever studied, it's so interesting and i get so frustrated and yet so intrigued with everything that went on. i have an essay to write on it tomorrow, i'm hoping it goes well!!
How has your year been so far?
my year has been pretty good so far!! i’ve made new friends, found what i really want to do after school, and i’ve just been to a uni open day for a university that i really want to go to where they have a super nice astrophysics building!! getting super pumped for next year and the future xx
what are your favourite books? 💕💫
of the books i’ve read most recently it’d have to be the space book i was reading (i can’t remember the name of it but i made a post about it and i talked about it all the damn time). the harry potter series would have to be my all time favourites tho ❤️
➸ 07.13.2017 | I managed to find the fourth pack of mildliners! ✨ Got so excited I had to share ; u ;
8/100 • 06/20/17 • spent this afternoon in the library (feat. my finished(!) history essay and this week’s journal spread)
Some simple Euler circuit practice for math team :)
21.06.2017
picked up a book for the first time in forever and haven’t been able to put it down
6th June 2017
Studying Macbeth featuring a very battered school copy of the play! Have a good week everyone!
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03.06.2017
my impromptu morning study session was a lot longer than i had thought it would be and i'm so happy with how much i got done today
yes i know it's not good to study on your bed but it was so cold and my bed is so comfortable
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ook so i started this studyblr because of a science mark.
yes. you hard me right
a science mark. i wasn’t very happy with this mark, then i found the world of studyblrs. i decided to create this blog just as a hobby and some duly needed inspiration for the dull and drab 8th grade.
and now i’ve reached 50 followers (well technically 51)
thank you all so so SO much for following me. i can’t even begin to imagine what 50 peopl means to me. this blog was for my recreational inspiration and brain dump, and now 50 people (that’s like more that my entire orchestra) follow me and see the things that i post.
i have met so many people, joined a network (shameless plug its #sscluboriginal)
shoutouts to @bionctes @juliasacads @studyign @emmastudies and @theorganisedstudent for being my first inspirations to start this blog
thank you so much to @victuuri-trashhh and her twin sister @infjproductivitea for alway being there to bear with my rants
and thanks so much to the people of the small studyblr network for helpping me find people and macke friends, including @athxnasdaughtxr and unknown admin who started it!!!!!
congrats!!!
welcome to the community!!
so you see, humans evolved to be bipedal on account of how our ancestors transitioned from the forest environment to the savannah environment, and in the savannah environment bipedalism was more adaptive because it provides better thermoregulation and allows you to carry things, but most of all because bipedal locomotion is highly energy efficient and energy efficient locomotion would have been very strongly selected for on account of how time budgets are a limiting factor on home range which is a limiting factor on diet quality and breadth which is really quite important
my lecturers have been very clear and very insistent that bipedalism evolved first and then allowed tool use, tool use did not spur a transition to bipedalism, the fossil record is Clear On This Point
and what I do not understand is: if bipedalism is so completely wonderfully energy-efficient and optimal, why are there so few bipedal things? How come lions and gazelles and giraffes and buffalo aren’t bipedal? Why aren’t other savannah species selected for energy-efficient locomotion too?
I am sure there is a good explanation for this but my lecturers have still not provided it and I must know please god just somebody explain this to me or I will die of curiosity
Reasons Why We Have Bipedal Apes, But Not Bipedal Lions, According To My Biological Anthropology Supervisor:
You know when creationists talk about how an eye couldn’t possibly evolve gradually, because half an eye is useless and a waste of resources and worse than no eye at all?
They’re wrong about eyes; a single photoreceptor cell (usually just an evolutionary ‘tweak’ away from a regular epidermal cell with biochemistry that happened to be photosensitive) is actually useful and great, and more is better. If you imagine breaking a modern wing in half and attaching it to a bird, “half a wing is useless” sounds true, but it stops sounding true when you realise that halfway to a wing doesn’t look like a modern bird wing but broken in half, it looks like a slightly enlarged membrane between a limb and your body that gives you just an extra half second of glide time when you jump.
But there *are* adaptations in this class of things, where it’s great if you have full-blown X but shitty to have half-baked X. As you might imagine, they are quite rare, because as the creationists correctly observe, if half-X is maladaptive there is no path to arrive at X through gradual adaptation to an environment. And yet bipedalism is of this class. How?
Well, you wanna know what it looks like to have enough bipedal foot structure that you decide to go adventuring around in the savannah on two feet, but you haven’t got the pelvic structure to make it efficient yet? YOU CAN’T RUN. You are literally incapable of moving faster than a kind of slow awkward lope. Your back kills all the time because your bones are all pointed the wrong way and your back muscles are trying to keep you upright. Your ankle and leg bones take far more pounding than they were ever optimised before and occasionally shatter. You’re unbalanced and ungainly and frankly sort of pathetic, and at very high risk from predators (to repeat: RUN AWAY IS NOT AN AVAILABLE STRATEGY).
Why would anything go through a long gradual process of getting much shittier and then eventually getting better, since evolution can’t plan or foresee? WRONG QUESTION. Whoever told you evolution was a slow gradual constant drift was a dirty rotten liar, just like all your other teachers from when you were twelve. More commonly, evolution involves long periods of relative stability where the organism is pretty much as adapted to its niche as it’s going to get, and then something changes and there’s a very rapid response. Or it involves successful populations dispersing widely over a landscape, then becoming distinct reproducing populations which lost genetic contact with each other and diverging, and then there’s an environmental change and they reconnect and sometimes they happily interbreed and sometimes one of the divergent branches drives the others extinct and disperses itself widely and rinse and repeat.
What happened was, basically:
Hi we’re early hominins and we just love hanging around in trees and we’re proud to say we’ve been hanging around in trees now for a couple million years and we haven’t changed a bit, slightly bigger skulls aside, we’re basically just per- what the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK? WHERE DID THE TREES GO?? WHY IS IT SUDDENLY SO DRY???? oh my God I can see nothing but grass and I am having to walk around on my hind legs all the FUCKING time and FUCK FUCK FUCK THAT’S A LION FUCK PANIC RED ALERT oh okay we’re bipedal now I guess, that was quick, oh well, all fine, carry on
Somehow we survived when a change in environment pushed us into a new ecological niche. The selection pressure was strong enough to make us acquire a really quite extensive range of mods to make bipedalism work, but not strong enough to make us dead.
Of course, “strong pressure to adapt somehow” doesn’t necessarily mean “strong pressure to adapt in this specific way we know is really good”. Early hominins who lived before the forest shrinkage have been shown to have a few bipedal adaptations. We weren’t sure what the hell they were doing with them, so we looked at chimps. Turns out chimps display short-distance carrying behavior - as in, picking up an object and carrying it. They don’t carry tools and can’t move far bipedally, but what they do do is pick up a valuable resource like a choice bit of prey and haul it off with them, away from the group of moneys fighting over the rest of the prey. So before the forests collapsed, there was a mild selection pressure to be able to use only your hind legs for a short stretch so that you could carry something in your arms, and when they collapsed, individuals good at that behavior were better at surviving the savannah and evolution just slammed its foot on the gas pedal until you get obligate bipeds.
So, a species that wasn’t forced into a rapid niche change like that, wouldn’t evolve an initially-painful thing like bipedalism. What about all the other species that made the same change as the same time as us? Eh, many went extinct, that happens a lot with ecological change, but the ones who survived didn’t do bipedalism.
Points to those who said it was about evolution having different starting points to build on, y'all were correct. No matter how awesome and efficient and optimal bipedalism is, evolution only cares about whether the next tiny step in some random direction increases or decreases how many offspring are produced. Evolution “looks” for the NEAREST solution that counts as a solution, not the best solution.
For a species of monkeys that were forced to spend less time in the forest and range wider and already had some variable locomotion abilities, evolution went for bipedalism. Bipedalism may have enabled the future awesomeness of humans with its efficiency and head stability and what have you, but evolution made it happen just because it was the local maxima - its awesomeness is a lucky side effect.
But where monkeys used short bursts of bipedal movements to carry things, another species might use something more convenient for them - say, a lion might pick up and carry things in its mouth, and if there was a selection pressure to be better at carrying the lions might end up with bigger mouths, but “become bipedal” is very unlikely because half bipedal is worse than no bipedal at all.
Basically, monkeys had the preconditions for bipedalism, nothing else did. (Note that this does not make monkeys special - the ancestor of any species with an unusual adaptation, from giraffes’ long necks to penguins’ Arctic-water-proofing feathers, was a thing that had the preconditions for that adaptation when nothing else did.)
Bipedalism didn’t happen because it was awesome, it became awesome because the range of adaptations it supports turned out to be a package that turned into, well, us.
…Notice that we are not actually the only bipedal species. Notice what they mean when they say things like, “Bipedalism leads to the ability to carry things leads to tool use leads to bigger brains”. On a naive reading, it means “bipedalism is a part of the tech tree and once you’ve bought it you can get hands optimised for holding tools”, and if it says this then you are right to be confused as to why perfectly good bipedal emus do not also have spears and control of fire.
When you realise that evolutionary studies is so full of ridiculously many caveats and preconditions that lecturers just omit them and assume you know they’re there, you start interpreting what they say more like, “In a species that already dabbled in just a tiny bit of bipedalism, bipedalism was the only way to go when the niche changed, it was way better for the new niche then the old way of locomotion, and given the likely presence of some proto-tool-like behaviors like throwing rocks or poking things with sticks, it created an adaptive opportunity to better fit this particular environment by improving on the tool behaviours using the new physiological advantages.”
Also god I learned a lot in that hour. Why does time spent *not* talking to biological anthropologists have to be a thing? Talking to biological anthropologists is the BEST.
Epistemic status: my recollection of a conversation an hour ago between me and an academic in this field, any misunderstandings are because I’m an undergrad who didn’t get what he was trying to say.
THIS IS SO COOL
(Why do I not live on a university campus D:)