"As a woman in science I especially want to acknowledge those role models who gave me the courage and incentive to persevere; my hope is that I in turn can be that role model for my own daughters, who are just now launching out into the world, as well as for other young women who are excited about science."
During her Nobel Prize banquet speech, medicine laureate Mary Brunkow took time to acknowledge the importance of role models.
Read the full speech: https://t.co/FXK1sknhP6
meditation be like
> wow my mind is frenetic af
then
> wow I can’t believe how tired I was underneath that
then eventually
> wow there’s this boundless ocean of resource underneath THAT
Perhaps it shouldn't feel like a privilege to experience the now, but rather something we inhabit naturally without ever feeling the need to remember its rarity. (6/n)
There is something about birthdays. I'm celebrating, analysing, anticipating, and introspecting myself and my existence. (1/n) (written on my birthday)
I'm grateful to be conscious and to be able to feel the 'now'. In my eyes, it is a huge accomplishment to be alive, to have lived, to live for all of us, and we should celebrate every 'now' we feel. (5/n)
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