Introducing Astronaut Story Time – From Earth! 📖⁣⁣

January 1st, 1818 - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is published

💀 Happy 200th anniversary Frankenstein💀

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)

“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.”

- Israelmore Ayivor

Exercising in space – Quick video about my favorite fitness machine

#Fitness is critical in space! Watch this #SpeedyTime video as I transform the multi-modal ARED machine during my workout. The Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED), simulates free-weight exercises in normal gravity. In space we exercise 2 hours every day in order to maintain our muscle and bone mass. Our favorite part about exercising in space is of course, the view!

To learn more about the ARED, please visit https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1001.html

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did you remember to...

1. drink some water?

2. take a deep breath?

3. think a kind thought about yourself?

do these now! then go on about your day and have a good one ✨

22.4.18 // ivy league dreams

my thesis advisor is constantly telling me to approach my research with one question in mind. “what are you trying to prove?” not a day goes by where i don’t think of that. and not just with my thesis. with everything. when i get dressed in the morning. when i’m walking down the street. when i post a picture on instagram. what am i trying to prove. and to whom. 

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (via wordpainting)