One week posting challenge
I am going to post an LJ every day this week. I do not care particularly if I get any followers, re-blogs, am re-twittered, receive comments, post anything insipid OR insightful, if I come across as someone who is whining on the internet, touch on popular fandom, offend people, do not offend people, shock and appall people, or am as vanilla mayo white bread as they come. I am writing an LJ post every day this week as a practice in basic writing diligence. Someone said the unexamined life is not worth living, so let's try examining it just a little bit: I'm doing this for myself.
But what should I write? Free verse for seven days wouldn't exactly sing to me, so instead, why don't I talk about just how amazing SCIENCE IS? Yes, that's the ticket! Science and humanity. It's very easy to lose faith in ourselves, as a human race. It's easy to believe that the daily atrocities and just plain cruel behaviors we inflict on each other, unintentionally and intentionally, are the overall theme of human beings. I am inclined, however, to disagree on this point!
For one thing, humans have the remarkable ability to band together to do really neat things. Bill Nye recently conducted an interview with a scientist on the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION(!) about a contest winner's experiment: to see if jumping spiders could hunt fruit flies in a zero gravity environment. (They learned how.) You read that right: We have created space-faring jumping-spiders capable of hunting in ZERO GRAVITY.
For another thing, we also have the profound tendency to band together to do silly, amusing things, like make an entire high-rise building a canvas for pixel art . We live in a fantastic churning world full of experimental music, song, and humor, and we live individual lives as part of a teeming mass of humanity that is interconnected in a huge way.
It's easy to forget that. I should get to my homework, which involves researching cell structure and some other things, but thanks for reading!