new outfit post is up. click-through for more pictures. details:
old coat (similar)
Book of Deer dress
UO tights (old, similar)
heels c/o Modcloth
vintage purse
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Autumn is finally here so I decided to celebrate this event with an autumn inspired outfit. ❀◕ ‿ ◕❀
The bee choker is from my little shop Ana Karuso, please have a look!
How do you celebrate autumn?
Time to make the casual observation that Rebecca very clearly chose to be a redhead because of Neal’s interest in Sara, who was a gorgeous redhead for quite some time. Of all the hair colors and wigs, she chose red. A date with Sara (1/20/12 at 9300 1st Avenue) was also one of the first things in the list of Neal’s meetings in one of Rebecca’s files.
LET IT GO sequence from Frozen in 25 languages
HERE COMES THE LYRICS! DON’T ASK ME HOW TO PRONOUNCE!
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen.
La royaume de solitude, Ma place est là pour toujours
Der Wind, er heult so wie der Sturm ganz tief in mir.
Het werd mij te veel, hoe ik mijn best ook deed.
Bié ràng tāmen jìnlái kànjiàn, zuò hǎo nǚhái, jiù xiàng nǎi de cóngqián
Visa ingenting, vad du än gör, allt är förstört
Arinomama no sugata miseru no yo
Libre soy, libre soy, libertad sin vuelta atrás
Wszystkim wbrew na ten gest mnie stać
Jöjjön száz orkán, és közben a szívemen ül a jég
Desde la distancia, qué pequeño todo es
I les pors que em dominaven per sempre han fugit
Non è un difetto, è una virtù e non la fermerò mai più
Naemamdaelo jayulobge sallae
Sad je kraj, sad je kraj Na krilima vetra sam
Sui yik yui chuen sam gong Mong diu jau tin bei gong
Estou aqui, e vou ficar! Venha a tempestade
Kuasaku buat hidup bercelaru
Podvlastny mne moroz i lod, nu chto za divnyy dar
Og som krystaller står en tanke ganske klar
Shte spra da bŭda az na minaloto plen
La den gå, la den gå, jeg skal stige lik solen nå
Pl̀xy xxk mā leik s̀xn rên dĕk dī mị̀ h̄ĕn mī kh̀ā
Je suis là, comme je l’ai rêvé
En de storm raast door, De vrieskou, daar zat ik toch al niet mee
And so the ultimate english Let it go version is…
English: The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen.
French: The kingdom of loneliness, my place will always be here
German: The wind, it howls like the storm deep inside me
Dutch: It became to much for me, no matter how hard I tried
Mandarin: Don’t let them come, (don’t let them) see. Be the good girl, just like how you used to be.
Swedish: Don’t show anything whatever you do… Everything is ruined!
Japanese: The true self, (I will) show (it)
Latin American Spanish: I am free, I am free… freedom without having to return!
Polish: Everyone against, this gesture I can afford (to give)!
Hungarian: Come hundreds of windstorms! And meanwhile my heart is wrapped in ice.
Castilian Spanish: From the distance, how small everything is.
Catalan: and the fears that have dominated me, have gone away forever
Italian: It’s not a defect, it’s a virtue and I’ll never stop it again
Korean: I would live freely, to my heart’s content!
Serbian: Now it ends, now it ends, I’m on the wings of wind
Cantonese: Whoever, regardless, also desires to say with all the heart. Forget the strains of yesterday, the sorrowful songs!
Portoguese: I am here, and I’m staying! Come the storm!
Bahasia Malaysia: My powers make my life chaotic.
Russian: I have power over the frost, ice, what a marvelous gift!
Danish: And like crystals, a thought stands clear.
Bulgarian: I will stop being, a captive to the past!
Norwegian: Let it go, let it go, I will rise like the sun now.
Thai: Let it out, don’t hide! There’s nothing worth about being a good child.
Canadian French: I’m here as I have dreamed of!
Flemish: And the storm rages on! The freezing cold is already there, and I don’t care about it anyway.
First of all, the Hungarian to English is so poetic, and second, EARGASM
I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.
his name is Ibn Khaldun
Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.
#no offense but arabs literally invented chemistry and algebra and we came up with the concept of the camera #the cataract operation that’s still practiced today was invented by an Arab #we created alchemy and the wright brothers used abbas ibn firnas’ findings and writings to build on to create a plane #I could go on and on and on #pls don’t erase our scientific history
I reblog this post every time I see it
We fucking replaced a Muslim scientist with an apple?
In the middle ages, THE place to go for an education was the middle East, or, failing that, Spain. The Muslim world didn’t have the same limits placed on scientific inquiry that the Christian world did, and since they were willing to look at more than just Aristotole and actually compare texts to the observable world, they had some incredible scientific and mathematical advancements. And street lights and toilets. I mean theories and algebra are great and all, but street lights and toilets. In the 12th century. Also medical advancements, and fewer rules against women studying. Hell, women *should* be the ones studying the female body, would you rather a woman see your female relatives, or some old man? Would you rather have someone who lives in the same kind of body, or one who has no first hand idea what the parts can do?
Europeans erased centuries of knowledge from the East because of fear. When we “rediscovered” it, we were still too egotistical to admit that non-whites could have been smarter, so we invented our own mythology.
Bring credit back where it’s due. Honor the true pioneers.
Well fuck guess I’ll be yelling at my physics teacher tomorrow.
There’s a lot to consider here, so I’d like to start with the things said above that are true:
Ibn Khaldun did suggest that evolution occurred.
Ibn Al Haytham was a pioneer in optics and in formalizing scientific methods, among many other contributions.
(Also there is no such thing as *the scientific method* outside sixth grade science projects, but that’s a story for another day)
Algebra and alchemy(later shortened to just chemistry) are both obviously rooted in Arabic etymology.
And key to this thread, these contributions are usually understated or ignored entirely by western science historiography.
Now then, lets discuss some of the misrepresentations above.
First, no human discovered gravity. Some fish in the Cambrian period crawled out of the ocean, dimly noticed there was some new pressure on its belly, and died of asphyxiation. Something like this happened constantly on earth for the next five hundred million years. And none of it matters all that much, because long before we understood its nature we were using it to our advantage. Catapults and siege engines requiring a clear understanding of what objects will do under the influence of physics, but don’t require any clear formalism.
What Newton proposed was an explanation that the gravity all humans are aware of has no upper end, that it just keeps going, and could therefore hold the planets and moons in place.
To do this well, and to finalize the rules that we still use to describe celestial motion, he needed Kepler’s notes on planetary motion
And Kepler need Brahe’s data
And Brahe needed good optical instruments.
So he needed some good optical and algebraic books.
And the best to consult at the time were the works of Ibn Al Haytham.
This is what Newton meant when he said “If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” He critically consulted the works of others and used them as a tool to gain scientific understanding.
As Al Haytham would have wanted.
This is a common theme in science history. We often ignore tributary works and focus on the end product. To give a more self contained example, consider
Maxwell’s Equations
There’s a whole story here that I won’t get into, but the basic story is this.
Benjamin Franklin (may his name be cursed till the end of time) was among a large number of people looking at the dynamics of electricity. Between the late 18th and mid 19th centuries there were several key relationships that had been worked out: Gauss’ Law, Ampere’s Law, and Faraday’s Law. Each named after it’s relevant scientist. Most physicists at the time could tell that there was some fundamental relationship between these laws, but it was foreign and counter-intuitive to human perception. Faraday took his observations to Maxwell and Maxwell, information in hand put in the final pieces. He saw how electricity and magnetism were tied together, how to write it with mathematical formalism, and how it could be manipulated in an arbitrary case.
Note that phrase, arbitrary case.
Maxwell’s equations, as they were soon to be known, could be rewritten and applied to anything with electrical charge. Even things that hadn’t been built yet.
Like electric generators.
Or computers.
This final set of equations held up largely unaltered until the advent of quantum mechanics, and even now is all you need for most electricity and magnetism problems. Nobody familiar with the story applauds Maxwell for doing all of it by himself. Maxwell was lauded because with his contribution the damn thing was done.
Which brings us to the crown jewel of this this train wreck:
Darwinian evolution
Darwin did not invent evolution. He wasn’t the first to suggest it by a millennium. So why did he get the credit/blame for it?
Because everyone seems to forget what was really revolutionary about his ideas:
Natural selection.
He suggested or noted several narrower points, most of which were available from other sources:
- Organisms produce more offspring than are necessary for replacement (Malthus)
- There is variation among those offspring (Whatever Sumerian invented animal husbandry)
- That variation is hereditary (Mendel)
- The variation that is best suited to survival will keep those individuals alive preferentially, and so be more represented in subsequent generations.
- Over many generations, species will thus adapt to new environments (Darwin)
- And so new species will form (Ibn Khaldun)
Darwin’s legacy was not his insight, but his synthesis. He gave us a reason why evolution was happening that held up to criticism and the data he and others had gathered.
And that is the essence of science. Using what you already know and what people have discovered before you to avoid literally reinventing the wheel every 20 years, while critically analyzing those same sources to make sure no one missed anything.
The contributions of non western scientists need to be taught better, but don’t act as though it is being hidden from you. The proper way to fix this is to share information and sources to help people understand the world around them and the history that informs it, so that everyone can stand on the shoulders of giants.
Reblogging for that last comment about Darwin. Because what Ibn Khaldun said it’s different from darwinism. It’s a base of ONE of the ideas for the explanation of evolution, but not at all what it is.
I agree tho that we should be taught those bases first so we can learn better.