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Finally ready for school tomorrow! I'm going to be starting the 100 days of productivity thing. Does anyone have any advice?

Physics time!

I was gonna do my laundry but when I turned the corner and saw this on the ground I stopped what I was doing and decided to make a snapchat story of science (I’m @thescalex on snapchat, if you want my username)

*cue Charlie Brown soundtrack of kids cheering*

There’s your science for the day. Go try it out for yourself!

*UPDATED* in the final picture of the original post, I made the mistake of saying “light as a particle” - I should have repeated the initial description (which is now fixed): the effect is from light passing through a single slit and diffracting, which is more accurate to what is being observed, because each bulb is a “point-source of light.” While the general scientific consensus is that light does indeed have particle properties, this single slit experiment is not a true depictor of those properties. While fewer photons do indeed get through, diffraction still (faintly) occurs between the lines. It’s the double slit experiment where things get REALLY weird, though.

Going for GOLD

On Jan. 25, we’re going for GOLD!

We’re launching an instrument called Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, GOLD for short. It’s a new mission that will study a complicated — and not yet fully understood — region of near-Earth space, called the ionosphere.

Space is not completely empty: It’s teeming with fast-moving energized particles and electric and magnetic fields that guide their motion. At the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space, these particles and fields — the ionosphere — co-exist with the upper reaches of the neutral atmosphere.

That makes this a complicated place. Big events in the lower atmosphere, like hurricanes or tsunamis, can create waves that travel all the way up to that interface to space, changing the wind patterns and causing disruptions.

It’s also affected by space weather. The Sun is a dynamic star, and it releases spurts of energized particles and blasts of solar material carrying electric and magnetic fields that travel out through the solar system. Depending on their direction, these bursts have the potential to disrupt space near Earth.

This combination of factors makes it hard to predict changes in the ionosphere — and that can have a big impact. Communications signals, like radio waves and signals that make our GPS systems work, travel through this region, and sudden changes can distort them or even cut them off completely.

Low-Earth orbiting satellites — including the International Space Station — also fly through the ionosphere, so understanding how it fluctuates is important for protecting these satellites and astronauts.  

GOLD is a spectrograph, an instrument that breaks light down into its component wavelengths, measuring their intensities. Breaking light up like this helps scientists see the behavior of individual chemical elements — for instance, separating the amount of oxygen versus nitrogen. GOLD sees in far ultraviolet light, a type of light that’s invisible to our eyes.

GOLD is a hosted payload. The instrument is hitching a ride aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite built by Airbus for SES Government Solutions, which owns and operates the satellite.

Also launching this year is the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, which will also study the ionosphere and neutral upper atmosphere. But while GOLD will fly in geostationary orbit some 22,000 miles above the Western Hemisphere, ICON will fly just 350 miles above Earth, able to gather close up images of this region.

Together, these missions give us an unprecedented look at the ionosphere and upper atmosphere, helping us understand the very nature of how our planet interacts with space.

To learn more about this region of space and the GOLD mission, visit: nasa.gov/gold.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.  

Be the hardest working person you can be. That’s how you separate yourself from the competition.

Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors Point Guard (via forbes)

— currently reading + latest trip to my favorite bookshop // ig: thesmartspo

twenty tags, twenty questions!

Tagged by @study-beaver thank you hun!

Rules: Answer 20 questions and tag 20 followers you would like to get to know better.

Name: alex

Nickname: halex, wren

Zodiac sign: aquarius

Height: 6’

Orientation: aromantic (im on the spectrum im not completely aro!) asexual!

Nationality: american

Fav fruit: peaches, bananas, mangos, strawberries

Fav season: halloween!!

Fav scent: that really heady scent from body wash that tries to smell like flowers but just smells like sugar

Fav colour: 💛💛💛

Fav animal: I love bears!!! so much!! and more recently, mice!

Coffee, tea, hot chocolate: don’t make me pick

Average hrs of sleep: like 6? but with weekends more like 8

Fav fictional character: it changes with every story i read or watch

No. of blankets you sleep with: tres

Dream trip: italy, or Huntington Beach

Blog created: late 2017

I tag @vanandlife @designing-crying @dissertationboy @eloise-studies @mainlystudying @princesademonaco @mypeachystudies @cedarstudy @paw-sitivi-tea @ukrainianstruggles @yes-i-am-student @studyanddiscover @colorcodedpens @black-tea-blue-pens @breaktimeisover @mingyu-studi @drinkteaandstudy @hinohde @nocturne-studies (everyone on this list either inspired me or reblogged my positive posts and added to them, or you’re just a brand new follower! i love you all!)

things you need to hear this exam season

- don’t beat yourself up for struggling even if you’re doing your best - you are smart and capable so don’t let laziness stop you from achieving your potential - stop self sabotaging. that tv show can wait. take a break but don’t become your own obstacle to success. get shit done first - eating right, staying hydrated and sleeping well are non-negotiable. look after yourself - grades do not define you so be kind to yourself. but do your best and work hard for what you want

Jan 8 2018/ 1/100 days

Today was my first day back at school! I have lots of work to do already on my giant research project.It is also my first time using my bullet journal for school and I quite like it (although this weeks spread is messed up)

STUDYBLR BINGO!

To celebrate how amazing and supportive my followers have been for sticking with me for more than a month now and to commemorate reaching 400+ followers, I created this game to get to know you all better. RULES - reblog this if you’re joining. - download the photo and cross out anything that applies to you  - re-upload with a short description of yourself and tag me! I’ll be creating a mood board for you based on this and what you post.

Tagging my beloved mutual studyblrs to join bc I want to get to know you better!! Also, thank you so much for being with me on my studyblr journey. It means a whole lot to me to be noticed by such amazing and inspiring people. Please keep doing what you do. @studyingwug // @nocturne-studies // @piiess // @ittybittystudyblr // @sweeterthanstudying // @lindzpng // @aistudy16 // @tealovingstudies // @solving-equations // @jackistudies // @rivkahstudies // @study-matters // @onthestudyingspot // @cupoftea-studies // @merida-studies // @vivianastudies // @flo-studies // @ludostudies // @elstudyblr // @saltysky // @materscience // @architstudy // @rui-writes // @greygubler

winter season series part 1/part 9

→ here are all of the notes resources i was able to compile over the course of about a week; there’s loads of links here but don’t feel overwhelmed! there are many different methods, tips, and even resources for different subjects.

METHODS & TIPS

organic chemistry notes

a quick tip for writers out there, who use Microsoft Word

how i rewrite my notes

masterpost of everything

note-taking tips

the complete study guide for every type of learner

how to study

how to study psychology

how to take effective notes

symbols & abbreviations for note taking

how to efficiently take notes

notes, studying, and self-study resources

how to make mindmaps!!

taking lecture notes

studying biology

how to use cornell note-taking method on onenote - a tutorial on how to take class notes

cornell note-taking method

how to illustrate your notes

how to maintain good notes

taking notes as a science student

decorative underlines for notes

studyquill’s summerstudy tag w/ lots of notes!!!

types in the classroom

masterpost: studying methods

physics resources and link, including notes!!!

tips you never knew you needed

study advice masterpost, including notes tips

+ i have a post coming soon in this series that deals with how i take my notes using my own modified cornell method so keep an eye out for that!

PRINTABLES

note-taking printables

organic chemistry printable

vocabulary list + others

formula list + others

definitions, formulas, etc.

SOME OF MY FAV NOTES POSTS FOR INSP

notes from a presentation

digital notes!!

more notes!!!

apush notes

notes over the abdomen

notes throughout of mice and men

the psychology of music

handwritten physics notes from grade 11

astrophysics

earth & the universe

more astrophysics!!!

uk and british politics

+ you can check out my /tagged/ref page for more of my fave posts :)

+ you can also check out my /tagged/notes page for more notes!!!

as always, hope you found this helpful and if you have any ideas/requests, please don’t hesitate to message/dm me!