in stockholm!

the poetry, humility and beauty of science ♥

today my evening program consisted of watching these videos i posted below & reading interesting news, articles and blog posts. :)
i really like Neil deGrasse Tyson, a very inspiring personality, he says some very sounds things there. ;)




plus, this book is on my reading list (which is growing longer and longer by the way): The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values. you can read an article about it or rather an interview with the author and neuroscientist Sam Harris here.

quote by Harris i liked:

'Consider the Catholic church. This is an institution that excommunicates women who attempt to become priests, but does not excommunicate priests who rape children. This church is more concerned about stopping contraception than stopping genocide. It is more worried about gay marriage than about nuclear proliferation. When we realise that morality relates to questions of human and animal well-being, we can see that the Catholic church is as confused about morality as it is about cosmology. It is not offering an alternative moral framework; it is offering a false one.

i definitely agree and look very much forward to reading this book.




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wonderful speech by inspiring jk rowling

this woman is such a great inspiration for me. watch this speech by her and find out why i love her so much. (plus, the harry potter series are by far my favourite books!)

beautiful swedish autumn

i really enjoy the fresh and colourful autumn days in northern europe. ♥ and i fell in love with apples: they are tasty, come in a huge variety, look pretty and i'm constantly surrounded by beautiful apple trees which just happen to drop loads and loads of bountiful goodness for a spoilt girl like me. it's good that i can save some money eating what nature provides for me now. buying all the food and paying for the hostel is getting pretty costly here in sweden. i love my time here nonetheless.


i'm still very excited about my decision of studying biological anthropology and neuroscience in vienna. i'm daydreaming about it quite frequently which means i haven't been very productive/living in the present much, i'm afraid. i'm currently staying at a swedish youth hostel in the middle of no-where (well, kind of!) and all i do is: reading blogs, forums, articles, watching documentaries, doing some bodyweight exercises, looking out of the window, apple picking (and eating!), going for walks, shopping, chatting with a special person and shopping in/exploring the small town near-by. oh. and i take pictures.

here's a recent pic of myself enjoying some precious and warming rays of sunshine:


speaking of sunshine. i'll order my vitamin d supplement ASAP. i watched this great lecture on the importance of vitamin d by dr holick yesterday and i found it to be quite impressive - i highly recommend to listen to this (very funny) guy! he's got some good things to say, i daresay.

in strängnäs... or in the middle of no-where

sweden ♥

vienna & sweden, here i come!

i'm going to vienna tomorrow morning with my parents. :)
haven't finished packing yet.

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well. there's still some time left tomorrow morning, right? *ahem*

(*last-minute-packing*)

^__^


i ♥ viennA & i'm really looking forward to living & studying there again, once i come back from sweden. i have greAt friends there, too. oh, how much i love those people! it's good that i left for a while, it makes me appreciate them and the city life even more. viennA is a pretty green city which i love.

this music vid by a fave artist of mine seems appropriate...
FALCO. r.i.p.




oh. and sweden.
so. excited.
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~ about to go for a walk ~

Wien.
Nur.
Wien.

BB ♥