Time Machine ♡︎

When you forget who you are … just visit your old tumblr page *laughing emoji* https://in-rainbows-and-purple-skies.tumblr.com/

Seventeen

Lost in translation

Pretty JAPANESE words that describe a moment, feeling or sentiment that don’t exist in the English language ♡ かんびななまえだ – kanbina; a beautiful word, pleasant to the ear If we spoke another language – would the way we perceive the world be different? The Japanese are deeply thoughtful poets and writers and […]

The Bamboo Cutter & Moon Princess

My favourite Japanese fairy-tale in English translation ❤ Long, long ago, there lived an old bamboo wood-cutter. He was very poor and sad for Heaven had sent him no child to cheer his old age, and in his heart there was no hope of rest from work till death. Every morning he went forth into […]

Sez6 – the sexy gene (famous autocorrect), cocaine addiction & compound X.

A layman’s explanation of my research for the non-science community 🙂 University of Melbourne lab group investigates the role of the protein, Sez6, in the enduring drug memory associated with cocaine relapse in former addicts Drug addiction is a devastating condition that affects millions of people and their families worldwide. Drug addiction is defined as […]

The drop

When the penny drops it’s an imaginary sound that rings hard, bounces, reverberates and casts a somewhat dark spell on every firing neuron in your waking brain. The orchestra of its shrill metallic fall is both painful but calming. Painful, because truth, without the peace of understanding, can be murder but calming in the way […]

~ observatory mansions

Time scurries away from us like field mice

Community Drug and Alcohol Use; implications and prevention

While the widespread social and economic implications of Alcohol or Other Drug (AOD) abuse are often associated with destitution, broken homes, criminal activity, low intellect or lack of moral fibre; AOD use, let alone abuse, is non-discriminative and certainly not localised to the impoverished. Casual AOD use and experimentation is dependent on a variety of […]

Fermi Paradox

Self-imposed intellectual stimulation ft. make me tired from my raging insomnia; go. Personally don’t like the phonetic aesthetic of the term, but all ideas of scientific origin must be labelled after their creator. The Fermi Paradox; a concept coined by Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, explores the contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life and […]

♥︎

It’s never too late be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see […]