to do sisters

two sisters--one in med school and one in high school--keeping each other accountable in the art of study

[todosisters]

after the storm https://www.instagram.com/p/B_jAP5PAmOpefgp33S94iFLjJUY3YNjT6hfnWw0/?igshid=dtalqsziuxv3

[henkheijmans]

Inner Hebrides, Scotland - by Martin Parr (1952), UK

[abduction]

by veins▼

[the-one-and-only-jazz]

[ceoul]

In Search of Rainbows by Anna Carey

“Los Angeles based, Australian artist Anna Carey presents her latest body of photographs documenting miniature fictional architectural spaces…”

[lematworks]

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[saintjoan]

Poetry recs? Like your absolute absolute favourites

Okay these are the ones that made me die a little

“all people are driven to the point of eating their gods” 

“if I love you / is that a fact or a weapon?”

“the kingdom of god is within you because you ate it”

“the blood in your mouth – I wish it was mine”

“his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars”

“I am singing now while rome burns”

“that corpse you planted last year in your garden,  has it begun to sprout? will it bloom this year?”

“so the gods sank to human shape with longing”

“those imperial, disimpassion’d eyes”

“this beautiful speed will be the end of us.  those are stars in our teeth.”

“if love wants you, if you’ve been melted into stars”

“out of the ash I rise with my red hair / and I eat men like air”

“your body hurts me as the world hurts god”

“lessons on loving a prophet”

“and I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void”

“tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine”

“to love a prophet is to become their desert”

“the void rushing up to greet us in the absence of god”

[aclockworkreader]

Some of my favorite diverse reads/tbr ✨

[mindpalacestudy]

Classic Literature

Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Foreign Language Literature

The Iliad - Homer

Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan

Die Blechtrommel - Günter Grass

Cien años de soledad - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Biology & Medicine

Life Ascending - Nick Lane

The Emperor of all Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Do no Harm - Henry Marsh

The Double Helix - James D Watson

Physics

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Packing for Mars - Mary Roach

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

The Emperor’s New Mind - Roger Penrose

Chemistry

The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Gunpowder - Jack Kelly

Uranium - Thomas Zoellner

Psychology

Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks

Opening Skinner’s Box - Lauren Slater

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker

Geography & Anthropology

Global Shift - Peter Dicken

Blood and Earth - Kevin Bales

Structural Anthropology - Claude Levi Strauss

Earth: an Intimate History - Richard Fortey

Volcanism - Hans Ulrich Schminke

Economics & Politics

Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt

This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein

Buyology - Martin Lindstrom

Other People’s Money - John Kay

Inequality: What can be done? - Anthony B Atkinson

Maths

Fermat’s Last Theroem - Simon Singh

The Golden Ratio - Mario Livio

The Infinite Book - John D Barrow

An Imaginary Tale - Paul J Nahin

In Pursuit of the Unknown - Ian Stewart

History

Victorian London -  Liza Picard

Salt: a World History - Mark Kurlansky

The History of the Ancient World - Susan Wise Bauer

Destiny Disrupted - Tamim Ansary

The German Genius - Peter Watson

Philosophy & Theology

Thus Spoke  Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

What is Called Thinking? - Martin Heidegger

The Stranger - Albert Camus

A History of God - Karen Armstrong

Religion for Atheists - Alain de Botton

Art & Art History

Ways of Seeing - John Berger

The Age of Insight - Eric R Kandel

Art Through the Ages - Helen Gardner

The Yellow House - Martin Gayford

The Power of Art - Simon Schama

Music

How Music Works - David Byrne

The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross

The Joy of Music - Leonard Bernstein

The Classical Style - Charles Rosen

[This is by no means a perfect list and I had real trouble finding books written by female authors, specifically in more scientific areas, so if you have any recommendations then send them to me and I’ll update this list]

[unseeliegrl]

11:46 // 1/26/2017

pretty sure I burned my hand at least three times while taking this picture

also, I would definitely recommend the book i’m reading. it’s called “the intellectual devotional” and it consists of a one page lesson per day and the lessons alternate between literature, science, visual art, religion, philosophy, music and history.

it’s such a good way to learn a little more and be well rounded plus it’s super interesting!!

[colormush]

[lelaid]

Brie Larson by Inez & Vinoodh for Vanity Fair, May 2017

[dig-my-earth]

Consider this: You can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photo-receptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it.

NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012 (via dig-my-earth)

[patternvomit]

[nr1-logo-design-inspiration]

Chocolate packaging

[basiadziadosz]

Back to work 💦

[willow-s-linda]

Merbaby is ready to explore the world.

[jusooobs]

Omg beautiful.