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Chungking Express (Kar Wai Wong, 1994)

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A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures. Where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld.

Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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The Genius of Marie Curie

Growing up in Warsaw in Russian-occupied Poland, the young Marie Curie, originally named Maria Sklodowska, was a brilliant student, but she faced some challenging barriers. As a woman, she was barred from pursuing higher education, so in an act of defiance, Marie enrolled in the Floating University, a secret institution that provided clandestine education to Polish youth. By saving money and working as a governess and tutor, she eventually was able to move to Paris to study at the reputed Sorbonne. here, Marie earned both a physics and mathematics degree surviving largely on bread and tea, and sometimes fainting from near starvation. 

In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium spontaneously emitted a mysterious X-ray-like radiation that could interact with photographic film. Curie soon found that the element thorium emitted similar radiation. Most importantly, the strength of the radiation depended solely on the element’s quantity, and was not affected by physical or chemical changes. This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element. The idea was radical and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects. Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende, the Curies realized that uranium alone couldn’t be creating all the radiation. So, were there other radioactive elements that might be responsible?

In 1898, they reported two new elements, polonium, named for Marie’s native Poland, and radium, the Latin word for ray. They also coined the term radioactivity along the way. By 1902, the Curies had extracted a tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride salt from several tons of pitchblende, an incredible feat at the time. Later that year, Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel were nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics, but Marie was overlooked. Pierre took a stand in support of his wife’s well-earned recognition. And so both of the Curies and Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Prize, making Marie Curie the first female Nobel Laureate.

In 1911, she won yet another Nobel, this time in chemistry for her earlier discovery of radium and polonium, and her extraction and analysis of pure radium and its compounds. This made her the first, and to this date, only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Professor Curie put her discoveries to work, changing the landscape of medical research and treatments. She opened mobile radiology units during World War I, and investigated radiation’s effects on tumors.

However, these benefits to humanity may have come at a high personal cost. Curie died in 1934 of a bone marrow disease, which many today think was caused by her radiation exposure. Marie Curie’s revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. For good or ill, her discoveries in radiation launched a new era, unearthing some of science’s greatest secrets.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The genius of Marie Curie - Shohini Ghose

Animation by Anna Nowakowska

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history | historical women | europe

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—Rich people are naive. No resentments. No creases on them. —It all gets ironed out. Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out.

Parasite (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho

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I don’t really know where to begin…

All the remakes that I have watched are now over. It’s a hard truth that some might not even get renewed while some might still continue, but I am so very grateful. It’s definitely not going to feel right because unlike any of the other shows I’ve watched, this one was interactive. Clips were coming out everyday, social media, and chats giving me the notion that it was all real. I’m not a person who takes things ending very well. I’ve always thought the idea of everything ending just showed me how still I stood still while everything just moved on. But with skam it’s been so different. This show and its remakes has really become a part of me and I can say that about very few things if any at all. It’s given me a world where there is so much understanding. Where I literally interacted with people from around the world sharing our differences and similarities. I was literally given so many scopes to see through and how issues were handled over the world. All just from the concept of ONE show: SKAM. This show imbedded itself in me as well as its remakes. Now, I can tell you that almost every remake left me annoyed or pissed, but in the end I always went back to it because I was reminded that nothing and no one can be perfect. I literally read a post the other day that spoke about the meaning behind SKAM which was SHAME. Not only was this shown through the OG, but it was shown through the remakes. That no one was perfect, but no one was any less human. The beauty and love emitting from every single one of the characters stuck with me, making them each so unique. Sure it was based on the OG, yet they still managed to create the characters so differently. The fandom? Obviously not every fandom is perfect and there are often moments where some people manage to look for hate in every way they can, but love still shone through every time. The support and care that came from each person to every character in each season was beautiful. The fandom has stood representing the exact message Julie Andem meant to spread: ALT ER LOVE. That we shouldn’t forget that message. The remakes were made to enforce that idea 100 times over because it can be easy to forget it in a world like today. It’s easy to forget when you feel the guilt eating you inside for only being human. It’s easy to forget when you think you did something wrong and that it was your fault that THAT trauma happened to you. It’s easy to forget when you are bashed and hated on for being who you truly are. It’s easy to forget when you thought you had no place in the world. And if it’s easy to forget, then so is it easy for fear to spread from that. But it’s important to remember that no one is ever truly alone. You will fall, you will break, and the world will fold in on itself around you. But you must always remember, that you are never truly alone. Like it was said in Sana’s letter: “Because even though it sometimes feels like it, no one’s ever alone. […] Fear spreads, but fortunately love does too.” The world can be a dark place and I can’t promise you that there won’t be days ahead where you’ll feel so helpless. But please, always remember that there is hope. And in that hope there is light and love that will guide you through life and it’s many bumps. You are not alone and you are loved. Remember there are so many other parallel universes where you aren’t alone so why can’t this universe also be the one where you’re not? Take it minute by minute. Cherish the pain, anger, sadness, happiness, hope, and care you’ve felt no matter what because it’s what makes you human. And that is in no way something you should feel ashamed for. I know this isn’t the end, but only the beginning. Where people will wonder what made this show so special like I did. A beginning where we’ll spread the message and hopefully keep it alive for those in the future who need to hear it.

Thank you to this entire fandom that has made me feel like I was not alone. A place where we managed to even understand each other even if we’ve never met. A place that cried, yelled, and laughed about the remakes and how they managed to emit every emotion out of us. A fandom that has not only created a friendship, but family. 

Thank you for showing me that life is about going through pain, anger, and fear.  

Thank you for showing me that there will be happiness and hope in the end. 

Thank you for showing me that we have flaws that build us to overcome the hard times. 

Thank you for showing me what it’s like to be human in its rawest forms. 

Thank you for telling me time and time again that I’m not alone and that I shouldn’t have to feel that way. 

Thank you to Julie Andem for creating SKAM that has portrayed the meaning of humanity and giving me something to carry on forever. 

ALT ER LOVE❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤

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how is my forehead so big yet my brain so small

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happy lesbian day of visibility to all lesbians! whether you figured your sexuality out last week or years ago, i hope you can find the strength to be visible and see the beauty that exists within you.

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Darren Criss dedicating his Golden Globe award to his mother

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No supporting actor nomination for Timmy this morning. He’s one of the few actors to be eliminated after receiving a GG, SAG, BAFTA and CC nomination.

Luckily, his talent and success is not based on nominations.

“I think movies can sometimes get lost in a coastal vacuum. I often thought to myself, ‘I don’t want to act for actors, I want to act for people.”

-Timothée Chalamet

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Loyalty. Loyalty means never giving up on someone, even through doubts and differences. It’s a noun, with action, fueled by shared experiences, which are memorable, meaningful, and irreplaceable. But loyalty isn’t blind love. It shouldn’t be taken for granted. Loyalty means telling someone when they’re wrong when no one else will. And loyalty means apologizing when you’re wrong, because of the trust you’ve built over time. Loyalty is true friendship.

Dumplin’ (2018) dir. Anne Fletcher, DoP Elliot Davis

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Princess Mononoke (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Rest in peace, Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018)

Stan Lee + MCU cameos (2008–2018)

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“So whatever happens tonight, I want you to remember one thing. You are not doing this for me. You are not doing this for you. Somewhere out there is an eight-year-old girl lying in bed, dreaming of becoming a criminal. Let’s do this for her.”

Ocean’s Eight (2018) directed by Gary Ross

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Most people are decent, aren’t they? Most people are nice and empathetic and decent and kind. It’s only that amount who are the [awful] people who, you know, want to shut the borders and not let anyone in.

Happy 29th Birthday to the incredibly handsome and incredibly talented Taron Egerton (10 November 1989)!

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I love him too much

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“It felt like sometimes you would lose a little bit of the authenticity if you tried to nail it so perfectly. Things won’t exactly always match up, there might be a hint of something that’s off, but I think that kept it feeling really alive and in the moment and it was better to sacrifice it that way, but yeah, I was watching it non-stop.” - Rami Malek