Inupiaq Healer

I'm on my way to become an M.D. and hopefully become fully fluent in Inupiaq! All at the same time!

[soft-october-night]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[lithominium]

You’re not casting

[peachblossomstudy]

// tips for being an a* student

by @peachblossomstudy

[byjove]

I see a lot of ‘cis’ women say they wish they were androgynous in the way men were or they wish they were pretty in the way men were. This is your sign to go try to do that. You may find you enjoy being an androgynous woman. You may find you no longer identify as a woman. You may find you don’t like androgyny. You will not know until you try. Cut your hair if you’ve always wanted to but have been afraid to. Shop in the men’s section if you’ve been too nervous to. Wear clothing with an androgynous  silhouette. Experiment with binding, take baby steps with compression bras if you want. Wear unisex scents. Live life. Try things you want to try. A lot of cis women do not understand the joys of mens pants and mens deodorant. I think everyone should try both of those things.

[happyheidi]

cats on quilts ♡

x x x - x x x - x x x x

[le-dreadmau5]

It’s literally that simple

Friend: “hey my son can’t concentrate on his homework. He chooses to do literally anything else everytime. He said his head doesn’t feel like it.”

Me: “Did you give him music?”

Friend: “No! No tech until he’s done! He doesn’t need more distracted.”

Me:

“k, bring me the child”

*Go to her house*

*points to the obviously ADHD boy struggling with his homework*

Me: “so your head doesn’t feel like doing homework?”

Son: “yeah. It would rather do ANYTHING else.”

Me: *unwrapping earbuds* here, listen to this for an hour while you do it.

French voice: 1hr later

Son: “k I’m done! :-)”

Friend: “wow, what’d you give him? Concentra, Adderall, Ritalin‽”

Me: “Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics” and some lo-fi.

[fckingowlnerd]

I-I’m gonna try this for myself

[le-dreadmau5]

Go for it! From what I’ve seen, everyone has a different genre but instrumental (no words) seems to be key. I guess Sweet Dreams words are so ethereal, ADHD just rolls with it????

For me, orchestral covers of songs I know work best since my ADHD is using the extra hyperfocus to remember and keep up with words. Have fun experimenting!!

[avatar-of-the-vast]

I have some arrangements of songs I did that I just loop. Mind you, these are, like, 1-3 minutes long, but the drone really helps with focus

[a-dumb-bitch-apparently]

Y'all I just listen to Lana Del Rey. Would recommend because with instrumentals I tend to focus on where actual words would be but with Lana’s stuff her vocals sound like music but it’s words

[mbrainspaz]

really wish I could’ve done this when I was spending 4 hours on every page of math homework in the 90′s. Fast forward to my last year of college when I finally figured out I could just listen to Blackmill and blaze through an entire semester of college math like it was nothing.  Find the study methods that work for you!!! Help kids find the study methods that work for them!  

[heywriters]

It takes me all day to do simple chores because i keep getting distracted. If i put in earbuds with upbeat music I’m done with everything in a couple hours AND i feel really good and probably danced a little i.e. exercised.

[abadbowlofsoup]

Try songs in another language - one you don’t speak. The idea is that since you don’t understand the words, your brain doesn’t go “Oh hey, someone is talking to me” and thus you can maintain your focus. Although, this is something probably  best suited to writing. But on the other hand, if it works, it works.  Personally, I like Opera. BUT, I advise against using Pandora’s Opera Station. At least in the free version, it either cycles through the same ten Singers/Albums or drifts off into instrumental covers.  On the other hand, it’s great for background noise when gaming. Just be sure you have an ad blocker running. You will also have to confirm that you are listening every hour or so. 

[abadbowlofsoup]

Followup on the lofi front: I recommend the following channels. Chillhop Music:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOxqgCwgOqC2lMqC5PYz_Dg

In particular, I recommend the relax/study livestream radio. Or just about any of their mixes. Fantasic Music:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZyyXrEF2WCZbI653PFNBbA Both the Chill and the Jazz playlists are excellent.  Jazzhop Cafe:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi8wqezBudeAiTdKOX571ug

Their ChillMix videos are the best.  Jazzhop Cafe Archive:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKbD–QKXKosHmSXarqYUeg Name is self-evident.  I believe ChilledCow also has a livestream, but I honestly prefer Chillhop. YMMV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow

EDIT: Oh, Pandora’s Vitamin String Quartet IS good, but it tends to drift off into New Age type stuff. Adblocker thing still applies though. 

[misfiterators]

I’ve seen is said elsewhere but I also highly recommend video game soudtracks! Especially if you don’t tend to enjoy the more orchestral music. They are usually engineered to make you focus better (ie. not want to stop playing the game)

“portal 2: songs to test by” got me through all my college math classes

[levymcgarden55]

[id: the Ben afflek smoking meme.]

[abessinier]

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

[vesperlionheart]

6. Content creators are not your parents and owe you nothing, not even a breakdown on why their content isn’t problematic. You don’t get to demand a dissertation denouncing any and everything unhealthy in a piece you don’t like. Move on.

[summerpipedream]

7. Tagging is a nicety but not an obligation. You can message people, politely, and ask them to tag things, and many people will, but understand that it’s their blog and they aren’t obliged to say yes. Unfollow and block when you need to. Circling back to number 1, you are responsible for curating your own experience.

8. Don’t be a jerk. Remember at the end of the day, there are actual living, breathing people behind each screen name. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t say to someone’s face in real life. 

[pixie-mage]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to remember this.

[rjzimmerman]

Climate Activists Alarmed as Biden Admin Takes Major Step Forward in Proposed Alaska Oil Drilling Project - EcoWatch

The Biden administration has taken a major step on a proposed oil drilling project in Alaska, much to the dismay of climate advocates.

Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:

The Biden administration has taken a major step on a proposed oil drilling project in Alaska’s North Slope by releasing a draft of an environmental impact statement (EIS), much to the dismay of climate advocates, CNN reported.

The ConocoPhillips project, known as Willow, would release tons of carbon dioxide emissions and spell disaster for the administration’s climate goals, which include slashing carbon emissions in the U.S. by half by 2030.

The Trump administration had approved the Willow project, but a judge temporarily blocked it, saying the environmental analysis hadn’t sufficiently considered the possible harm to wildlife or additional climate change impact.

The EIS includes an array of possible plans for the project, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) said, one of which is “no action” — meaning no drilling — and doesn’t represent a final decision, reported The New York Times. The DOI’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will take public comments on the proposed drilling for 45 days, with a final decision expected later this year.

“We are disappointed to see BLM moving forward with considering the Willow plan when it is so clearly inconsistent with the goals this administration has set to transition away from fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis,” said Earthjustice attorney Jeremy Lieb, as The Washington Post reported. “This single project, which will release a staggering amount of climate pollution, threatens to send us dangerously off track by undercutting urgently needed measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.”

The EIS said the 30-year Willow project would generate 629 barrels of oil and release from 278 million to 284 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, reported CNN.

In a high-emissions scenario, temperatures in parts of Alaska — including northern areas — are predicted to increase by ten to 16 degrees Fahrenheit by the latter part of the 21st century, the new review of the project said, as The Washington Post reported.

[mapsontheweb]

Alaska wildfires as of Tuesday morning from BLM AK Fire Service analysis with the largest fires highlighted. Not all of these fires are currently growing but wide distribution of fires is a big part of the story. Total area burned now 2.74 million acres.

by @AlaskaWx

[rawr-gorg-smash]

Another of the photos from the Alaska trip with @celestemagnoliathewriter . This guy was right off of the bow near one of the glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park.

Literally chillin.

Best shot I could get with a 200mm lens. I’m kicking myself for not renting an ultratele before we left.

[ratsarecute4]

A desperate mycologist, trying to seduce a potential partner by putting on knee-high socks because they've heard those are sexy except they're knee-high mushroom socks and they're trying to impress them with their extensive knowledge of wild mushrooms: *points at one of the mushrooms* This here is a common morel mushroom or Morchella esculenta which is poisonous when raw but when you cook them they're safe to eat. You can only find them by foraging! Isn't that totally bonkers? Nowpleasehavesexwithme

[tulunnguaq]

Greenlandic Masterpost 2021

I thought it was time to do another round-up / masterpost of my own posts to date on the Greenlandic language (and some more recently on Inuktitut). I promise that none of the links below are rickrolls! (but I guarantee that at least one of the posts does contain one…).

As ever, I’m open to questions and comment!

Translations and stuff

Greenlandic Text Lesson 1 - Bussimi Naapinneq (The Meeting in the Bus)

Greenlandic Text Lesson 2 - Ingerlaliinnaleqaagut by Nanook

Greenlandic Text Lesson 3 - Qeqertarsuarmi nanorsiortut (Bear hunt in Qeqertarsuaq)

Greenlandic Text Lesson 4 - Name the Book Challenge!

Greenlandic Text Lessons 1-4 - Revision Challenge!

Greenlandic Text Lesson 5 - Arnanut (For Women)

Greenlandic Text Lesson 6 - Aasami Atuanngiffik (The Summer Holidays)

Greenlandic Text Lesson 7 - A letter

Greenlandic Text Lesson 8 - Astrofysikeri Stephen Hawking

Greenlandic Text Lesson 9 - Ulla the pregnant LOLcat

Greenlandic Text Lesson 10 - Tuuma

Greenlandic Text Lesson 11 - Benny the Beluga

Greenlandic Text Lesson 12 - Nunassittarneq/Settlement

Greenlandic Text Lesson 13 - Bussimi Naapinneq (again)

Greenlandic Text Lesson 14 - Captain Tom Moore’s fundraising for the NHS

Greenlandic Text Lesson 15 - Harry Potter!

Counting in Greenlandic - 1 to 20

Word length in Greenlandic

Another Greenlandic Song - Ukiut Qaangiuttut by Zikaza

Inuktun - the language of the Inughuit of Northern Greenland

Iikkaleeq - an East Greenlandic Children’s story

Linguistic Excursions #7: French and East Greenlandic/Tunumiisut

Herod and Mariamne - Pär Lagerkvist - Greenlandic extract

Greenlandic - Skolt Saami Phrase List

Greenlandic - Yorùbá Phrase List

Greenlandic / Icelandic Parallel Texts - The Northern Lights

Greenlandic / Icelandic Parallel Texts - The Ice

Enjoy *being* Yourself - LGBT terminology

Humour and stuff

A nice long word

Another nice long word

Roll on another long word

Some Greenlandic humour…

More Greenlandic humour…

Italian words for pasta…

Essential Movie Quotes in Greenlandic #1-#9

Essential Movie/Book Quotes in Greenlandic #12 - Harry Potter

Greenlandic Linguistics in 2025

Qaqqaqaqaaq!

Greenlandic Scrabble

Books and stuff

Learning Greenlandic Book Review #1: Qaagit!

Grønlandsk Rejseparlør

The Language of the Inuit - Louis-Jacques Dorais

Words of the Inuit - Louis-Jacques Dorais

Oqa.dk - a new Greenlandic grammar resource

Some textbook suggestions

Other stuff

Juullileqaaq - It’s Christmas soon!

Tsunami in Greenland

Playground sign

A (Greenlandic) quote for Valentine’s Day

Etymology of Greenlandic “Tuluk” - an alternative hypothesis

West Greenlandic guide to the orthography of East Greenlandic

Ethnonym Chain

How do you say North-West in Greenlandic?

Mutual Intelligibility of Greenlandic and Inuit dialects

Greenlandic Language Puzzle

My blog gets cited in a Bachelor’s thesis

Inuktitut artwork - Josie Paperk

“The Terror” - Post 1 (Silna), Post 2 (Netsilik Hunter)

And finally - not my work, but here you have the excellent “Ultimate Greenlandic Resource List”

[orchiddingme]

Inuktitut Alphabet

Letters with the dot above are long vowels. In English, the vowel would be doubled. E.G. Naujaat (ᓇᐅᔮᑦ). The small symbols on the right are single letters.

Image from Wikipedia .

[phonaesthemes]

Nunavut television network launches Inuit-language channel | CBC News

Inuit Canadians will have 24/7 access to Inuktitut-language television programming starting first thing on Monday, at 12:01 a.m.

The Nunavut Independent Television Network (NITV) is launching a new channel — Uvagut TV — starting first thing on Monday, at 12:01 a.m.

The new channel’s Inuktitut title translates to “Our TV” in English — a term used to encompass all Inuit languages, including Inuktitut, which is spoken in western and central Nunavut.

Canada is home to several other Inuit regions besides Nunavut, including the Inuvialuit region of the Northwest Territories, Nunavik in northern Quebec, and Nunatsiavut in Labrador.

Uvagut TV is calling itself the first language-focused Indigenous television channel in the country. Content will be primarily in Inuit languages, with English subtitles, says the network’s executive director, Lucy Tulugarjuk.

“For me, Uvagut TV is a dream come true — to see Inuit culture and to hear our language full time on TV,” Tulugarjuk said in the news release.

“As our elders pass away, we are fighting against time to keep Inuit culture and language alive for our children and grandchildren. TV in Inuktut all day every day is a powerful way to keep a living language for future generations.”

Tulugarjuk said the network will also have programming in Inuinnaqtun, an Inuktut dialect spoken in western Nunavut, and Inuvialuktun, which is spoken by Inuit in the Northwest Territories.

Both of those languages are considered dying languages, and the organizations from those regions that create cultural programming for television, like the Inuvialuit Communications Society, often create content in English as well.

Tulugarjuk says the network is hoping in the future to have content from Alaska and Greenland.

[tulunnguaq]

Some new reading material in the post, from Professor Louis Jacques-Dorais!

“Words of the Inuit is an essential compendium of Inuit culture illustrated as a journey through the Inuktitut language and dialects.”

Looks fun! Some extracts below:

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages of the world

Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 35,215

Official language: Northwest Territories, Nunavut (Canada)

Recognized minority language: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Yukon (Canada)

Also spoken: Alaska (United States)

Script: Inuktitut, 105 letters

Grammatical cases: 8

Linguistic typology: agglutinative, SVO

Language family: Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo, Inuit

Number of dialects: 4

History

1870s - adaptation of the Inuktitut script from the Cree syllabary

1976 - creation of two standardized writing systems

1984 - Inuktitut becomes an official language in the Northwest Territories

2000s - immersion programs in school

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the script: ᐃ ᐄ ᐅ ᐆ ᐊ ᐋ ᐦ ᐱ ᐲ ᐳ ᐴ ᐸ ᐹ ᑉ ᑎ ᑏ ᑐ ᑑ ᑕ ᑖ ᒼ ᑭ ᑮ ᑯ ᑰ ᑲ ᑳ ᒃ ᒋ ᒌ ᒍ ᒎ ᒐ ᒑ ᒡ ᒥ ᒦ ᒧ ᒨ ᒪ ᒫ ᒻ ᓂ ᓃ ᓄ ᓅ ᓇ ᓈ ᓐ ᓯ ᓰ ᓱ ᓲ ᓴ ᓵ ᔅ ᓕ ᓖ ᓗ ᓘ ᓚ ᓛ ᓪ ᔨ ᔩ ᔪ ᔫ ᔭ ᔮ ᔾ ᕕ ᕖ ᕗ ᕘ ᕙ ᕚ ᕝ ᕆ ᕇ ᕈ ᕉ ᕋ ᕌ ᕐ ᕿ ᖀ ᖁ ᖂ ᖃ ᖄ ᖅ ᖏ ᖐ ᖑ ᖒ ᖓ ᖔ ᖕ ᖠ ᖡ ᖢ ᖣ ᖤ ᖥ ᖦ.

Inuktitut is also written using the Latin alphabet.

Smaller superscript versions of symbols are used at the end of a word or before other consonants.

There is a distinction between short and long vowels, the latter of which are marked with a dot above the corresponding syllabic.

Grammar

Nouns have three numbers (singular, dual, and plural) and eight cases (ablative, absolutive, allative, equative, ergative, instrumental, locative, and prolative).

There are two forms of the third-person pronoun: the “normal” one and the obviate form, which helps disambiguate the antecedent when both have the same gender.

Verbs are marked for tense and mood, as well as for person and number of both subject and object. They fall into two categories: specific and nonspecific. The former have definite objects.

Dialects

Four main dialects can be distinguished: Qikiqtaaluk nigiani, Nunavimmiutitut, Inuttitut, and Inuktun.

They differ in phonetics, phonology, syntax, and vocabulary.

[renegade-hierophant-deactivated]

Canadian Aboriginal syllabics

[esmereldastudies]

Study Motivators That Work

The 3 Minute Rule

When you have a task that you don't want to complete, just get started and keep going for 3 minutes. If you still don't want to complete the task after 3 minutes, stop and start another task

This method can be very challenging during the initial stages of trying it

When you procrastinate, you tend to find something else to do first to dodge the main task at hand

This rule forces you to immediately avoid any deviation from completing the task for 3 solid minutes with the option to stop after those 3 minutes

Discipline plays a crucial role in this motivation technique as starting the 3 minutes requires you to overcome procrastination

Something that helps in this process is trying to slightly mentally detach yourself from the situation to have an objective view on it

You need to look at the situation and acknowledge that you have the freedom to stop the task after 3 minutes if you truly cannot complete it and that you absolutely must start the task immediately

Often times, I keep going once I start which results in significantly improved productivity

Flexibile Schedules

Often times, I plan out the perfect study and work session with my tasks and times detailed to the second

However, sometimes, life gets in the way of these plans and I'm forced to reschedule everything

Something like this can be extremely demotivating, especially if your day revolved around your very detailed plan

To help solve such issues, there are 2 options for 2 different scenarios

The first option is to prevent the situation from occurring at all

Extremely rigid and detailed plans are very easy to disrupt

Preventing the situation would be done by outlining more flexible study and work plans that can be done at most times and don't rely on strict timings (I will post another article on creating a flexible and functional study schedule)

The second option is how to move forward if you do find yourself in a situation where your study plans have been disrupted and you're demotivated

In this instance, the first step is to list the topics you need to cover and sort them from most important to least important

Estimate how much time each topic will take and look at how much time you have available

Evaluate if the time you have available is adequate to completely cover all of your listed topics

If not, choose as many topics with the greatest priority that will be able to be completed within your available time

Remember, these steps should be completed within 5 minutes at most to prevent you from losing any more time

There's always a plan for every situation. It just needs to be found.

Justify It

If you truly feel like there's no reason to compete the task, find a reason

If the task is important enough for you to lament over it, it's certainly important enough for you to complete it as soon as possible

Clear your mind of any frustration and just relax

Think of what the purpose of the task is

Do you need to complete an assignment that will be a part of your final grade?

Do you need to complete a report for your job?

Will this benefit you in the future - near or far?

If you need to study, what is your end goal?

When I hesitate with my studying, I always remind myself that what I'm learning now will one day help me improve as a doctor

Once you identify a reason, act on it and complete the task

The reason will help you sense that what you're doing has meaning and purpose, making the task less of an inconvenience and more of a duty

Knowledge is always valuable.