Science is neat

My mum loves forwarding emails. She forwards emails with virus warnings; she forwards emails with medical warnings. Especially when they are related to the health risks of alcohol. That is a big one. And I am pretty sure no-one on the receiving end will forget the day that she forwarded a report about the increased risks of mouth cancer associated with oral sex to me and my brother and my sister and my DAD! I don’t know if that was her way of normalising it. Like, “hey, here is an interesting article most people would like to read.” Whatever she was doing you can bet it took me a while to stop rocking in the corner of a room.

Anyways you can imagine how every time I see her name in my inbox followed by “Fwd:” I feel a little concerned. But the other day she sent a link to this website. And it was a real goody!



This here is a PHOTO. Taken in RUSSIA! ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO! With some fancy technology! Isn’t is a mind bender!?

I mean, I hate to get all cultural and scientific and shit, but you should check out these pictures cause they are totes awesome. They are so big and the colours so vivid. And when I saw them I was really impressed. They are lovely, but part of what is awesome is that they are so old but so new looking. So I felt impressed by the fact this wonderful thing was done so long ago with some fancy old school technology. But then I started thinking about cameras and realised that I am actually still impressed with them. I don't get them. I mean I understand how the image gets in the box (camera) with light and reflections and stuff. But how does it get on the film! I guess I can kind of understand black and white, but colour! And digital cameras! Forget about it.

I feel a bit loathe to admit this on the Internet, because I don't want people to think I am a stupid girl. I am not stupid. In fact last night while I lay in bed thinking about this I had to think about how nice maths was to make my brain stop feeling fuzzy about image capture. Maths, now there is a nice neat science. You know, if you only did it in high school before things start to get confusing.