New York Subway Station

sometimes i just want to pinch myself - I can’t believe this is where I live & that these are the kinds of coffee shop views I get to experience on a daily basis. 

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (via philosophybits)

edited screen cap from the politician

Old books in Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

Have You Ever Seen An Eclipse From Space? Check It Out

On June 21, 2020 an annular solar eclipse passed over parts of Asia and Africa. Eclipses happen when the Moon lines up just right between the Sun and Earth, allowing it to block out part or all of the Sun’s bright face and cast a shadow on Earth. 

On that day, the International Space Station was orbiting over Kazakhstan and into China when this picture of the solar eclipse shadowing a portion of the Asian continent was captured by an external high definition camera. In the left foreground, is the H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 from Japan.

Here is another angle as seen from the orbital lab. In the left foreground, is the Progress 74 resupply ship from Russia.

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another lab day!

today I extracted some DNA from our fli1a:eGFP background and1/2 mutants so that we can genotype them. I ran an RT-PCR and I’ll do the gel tomorrow to determine their genotype (all with the help of the amazing MSc. student i’m working under).

the fish are all currently really small so it was harder to cut their fins, but I think it went well for my first time! hopefully my PCR is successful too...

the fins regenerate in about a week, so these fish will be good as new soon!

Chris Hadfield & other astronauts share coronavirus self-isolation tips 

If anyone knows how to be productive when spending a lot of time alone, it’s an astronaut. Hadfield, Scott Kelly, Peggy Whitson and Buzz Aldrin have a few suggestions. 

Read more in my CNET article here.

former FLOTUS michelle obama at princeton university, early 1980s

It is essential to practice reading as an art.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals (via philosophybits)

I got these from various used/rare book sales on campus 🍂 (fun fact, i got a 4$ hardcover copy of the secret history at one of those sales, which is great bc my paperback is super annotated and worn out)