Never Give Up on What You Love. Are you an aspiring artist or writer?
No matter what you’d love to do in life, getting started is never easy! “Art” by *SOLAR-CiTRUS was created in response to something that had been bothering the artist for a few years: Every time I encounter someone who’s just started as an artist, they put themselves down because they’re intimidated by artists who are more experienced. Intimidation is something that every artist has (or will) encounter in their lives, and they need to pull through that fear in order to grow as an artist. Take that intimidation and be inspired about it.
This is an issue that has weighed down on me in the past when I pursued many creative endeavors. 'School of Rock' Cast Has Touching 10-Year Reunion (Photos) This 10-year reunion really rocked.
The cast of the beloved school music comedy School of Rock reunited Thursday night, almost a decade after the movie first hit theaters. The Jack Black starrer went on to earn $131.3 million worldwide and launched the career of iCarly star Miranda Cosgrove, who had a breakthrough role as precocious band manager Summer Hathaway. Cosgrove documented the cast get-together in Austin, Texas, on Instagram (photos embedded below). "10-year 'School of Rock' reunion! Sooo good to see everyone," she wrote. The actress also posted a photo of what she and her young castmates looked like when they were kids: The Austin Film Society event featured a screening of the film, in which Black poses as a substitute teacher and turns his prep-school students into a rock band, and a performance of the film's signature song, "School of Rock.
" Check out an Instagram video of the performance below. Why your brain may work like a dictionary - life - 29 August 2013. DOES your brain work like a dictionary?
A mathematical analysis of the connections between definitions of English words has uncovered hidden structures that may resemble the way words and their meanings are represented in our heads. "We want to know how the mental lexicon is represented in the brain," says Stevan Harnad of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. As every word in a dictionary is defined in terms of others, the knowledge needed to understand the entire lexicon is there, as long as you first know the meanings of an initial set of starter, or "grounding", words. Harnad's team reasoned that finding this minimal set of words and pinning down its structure might shed light on how human brains put language together.
The team converted each of four different English dictionaries into a mathematical structure of linked nodes known as a graph. This enabled the team to remove all the words that don't define any others, leaving what they call a kernel. More From New Scientist. Fifty Amazing Facts About Earth (INFOGRAPHIC) Did you know that 75 percent of Earth's animal species could be extinct within the next three centuries?
Or that up to a million species -- most of them still unknown to humans -- live in the world's oceans? Are you aware that the driest place on the planet hasn't experienced rainfall in 2 million years? Or that an estimated 38,000 man-made objects have orbited Earth since the 1957 Sputnik launch? United Kingdom-based agency NeoMam Studios is sharing these mind-boggling facts and 46 others in a fascinating infographic that has gone viral this past week. "This info kicks ass," one enthused Facebook user wrote Sunday after scrolling through the knowledge-packed graphic. Scroll down to read it for yourself: h/t: I F-cking Love Science Also on HuffPost:
Daniel Radcliffe Sings The Periodic Table. Electronic Visualisation. Understanding chemical structures can be a complicated business.
The simplest chemicals are relatively easy to describe and visualise but even moderately large molecules can be fiendishly hard to imagine. That’s why chemists have become remarkably adept at representing these complex three-dimensional structures on the two-dimensional page or screen. Today, Karl Harrison at the University of Oxford and a couple of buddies take a nostalgic look at the history of visualisation in chemistry. They begin with a short description of the pencil and paper techniques that were mandatory for chemists in the pre-electronic era. “From the late 1970s to mid 1980s, many science authors became expert using Rotring pens™, plastic templates stencils and Letraset™,” they say. Consequently, researchers or the illustrators they worked with often became highly skilled at producing complex and beautiful illustrations to go with their papers.
Visualisation software has advanced in leaps and bounds since then.