Mayim Bialik: Blossoming To Science 

Like homeopathy, anti-vaccination, homophobia, etc.

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Thanks, that was great!

I would have to agree David! Thank you for sharing!

Well worth watching!

She was a teacher.

+Dean LB Follow her on Facebook or Twitter. She writes a lot of interesting essays and posts them on her site Grok Nation.

You can follow her on twitter or instagram. Her handle is @msmayim or subscribe to her youtube channel. She reads her comments almost every day.

I used to watch her in 'Blossom.' It was my favorite show growing up along with cartoons of course. :-)

Heard about that show but haven't see it.

It's okay i barely remember anything from the show besides the title and her. :-)

Time to get some memory booster! ;)

via RU-vid. Maybe it's there! :-)

Thunderbird I don't know if you're still around to read this but you sir are humanists and that gives me hope

she's divorced, 2 children

+Juny Colon And Natalie Portman went to Harvard and got her AB in psychology. She later did graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has also studied French, Japanese, German, and Arabic. She's a smart cookie too - and cute as a button. "I don't care if college ruins my career, " she said. "I'd rather be smart than a movie star."

I agree. I find intelligent women to be very appealing.

Wow, I am impressed with anyone willing to undergo the rigors of biochemistry and physics degrees has my deepest respect. I thought of medical school in college but I ended up with a graduate degree in finance and economics. Since you are working towards a MD/PhD program I guess research is in your future. Is there any certain area of research that you are interested in pursuing? Do not let people get you down if they judge you by your looks alone. Let your accomplishments speak for themselves.

***** As a general rule, unless one's icon is specific to an activity, it doesn't inspire me to contemplate the owner's career path one way or the other. For that matter, my icon gives away nothing about my 12+ years as a police/ems/fire dispatcher. That said, I certainly do grasp your point. It's a shame that, inside and outside the scientific world, so many brilliant minds belong to small-minded idiots. Kudos to you for shattering preconceptions in the pursuit of what you love. P.S. As pertains to your icon, WOW! ;)

***** Well keep up the good work. Like I said let your work speak for itself. My wife is a beautiful woman and she has degrees in biology and inorganic chemistry and she can relate with your story. Good luck

Impressive woman.

Her "all or nothing" approach to vax is disappointing. Vaccination itself is not the problem so much as certain clinicians who disregard the recommended schedule and end up over-vaccinating their patients resulting in toxic levels of whatever transmitter they use.

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I think her beliefs might be a little more nuanced than that. For instance, she might not hold to a "literal" interpretation of the Torah, but she can still insist that the core teachings of the Torah were divinely inspired.

Mike De Freitas You are talking to an atheist, sir. These things simply don't slide with us. No one believes in their holy books literally, they find sense and reason in them themselves. Which means the holy books are obsolete and hugely irrelevant. All of them. And when a rational person tells me "I believe things in Tora are true", that makes me question his or her rationality rigth away.

Daniel Korolev Again, it can be thought of as more complex than you're willing to accept. Think of when the Torah was written - conventional historical analysis has it being written around 1000 BCE, redacted a final time at 400 BCE. Literary analysis of the Torah has yielded sophisticated insights into human nature - the whole garden of Eden myth, for example, could be seen as allegorical psychology. So, when I see the Torah, as a non-Jew, mind you, I can perfectly understand why a contemporary Jew would want to say "grounded" in this religion. They may not believe it in exactly the way the Torah describes i..e miraculous exodus from Egypt, preferring a more literal political explanation, but the Hebrew prophets and religion they established has certainly been a major part in the civilizing process of mankind. In todays world, the old and perhaps gullible orthodox understanding needs to be updated. But the core existential situation (think Abraham Joshua Herschl) is the same. As an atheist, you are completely entitled to not believe in a God. But I personally find it arrogant to pronounce that "only" your perspective is the rational one, using linear logic as your basis. Everyone is entitled to form their own beliefs. Life is hard. Existence is a mystery. Some people handle their existence with a non-theistic framework, others, a deistic framework, and others, an atheistic framework. If it works for you, more power to you. Can sense an reason be found in ourselves? Of course. Nobody is saying believing in God makes you moral. But sense and reason are merely tools; they can be used to point in either direction depending on the premises we accept. And since premises are largely an "emotional" question, everyone will be led in their beliefs in a direction slightly different than someone else. I think you should try to respect that.

***** My feeling is, the God issue is and will forever be an open question. As you said, science can go to the extreme limits in studying the physical dimension. And perhaps,who knows, one day we may be able to describe consciousness and physics in a common language (energetic dynamics). But even then, can we ever really know if this is just randomness? The Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield when asked how being in space affected his view about the universe, and about God, responded that seeing earth from top-down, and the infinite universe all around him, only "deepened my dumbfoundedness". I thought that was such an apposite way of putting it. Since the question is ultimately open-ended, and logic can be used to support or disprove whichever premise holds more leeway for you, that's exactly what being in space would do: it would make you even more aware of the immensity of the question (Is this random?) yet leave you without an answer. The question simply grows in size. And you feel even more unable to fathom it. My personal feeling is, you have to go into the essence of human existence. The Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Herschl really influenced me to see the human situation in existential terms. This sense of "awe' we experience is intrinsically human. No other creature possesses the neurobiological capacity to hold such existential questions within its consciousness: only the neocortex possessed by human beings, permits us to think this. So why? Why are we made to ponder these questions? It's an enormous mystery. Although asking "why" does not suffice as a logical argument, the sheer fact that the universe created a part of itself to ponder itself really does beg the question: are human beings part of the mystery of the puzzle of existence? And possibly, even an answer to the question? Either way, I live as though God exists. I find myself praying to him before I sleep, not in the sense of "asking" for anything, but just expressing my gratitude for existence, for experiences, for the daily wonders and senses that sublimate my perception.

Mike De Freitas What you have extensively described sounds quite similar to the Anthropic Principle, as defined by Sheldon Cooper.

That's a nicely done talk she gives. Thanks for sharing!