Today I went there again, in fact I just got back. Now one of my hidden interests is science and physics. In high school, next to art class, my favorite was chemistry – I absolutely love it – some of the neatest stuff ever.

In Grade 10, Science I did extra credit building a (non-functioning) model of Light Amplifications of Stimulated Emissions of Radiation (aka: a LASER). It was cool and fun, even though the learning curve seemed slightly above me at the time.

I never took physics in school, Switching over to Senior High, my old school counselors flat out told me, “don’t bother with physics, you just an artist, you’ll just fail it anyway, and you don’t want that on your official records”. So I loaded up on arts classes (graphics, photography, drafting, woodworking) which in the end also conflicted with me taking Chemistry as well. And off I went… onto my career of being an artist.

Years later, I have discovered science again, having read books by Kerry Mullis, Richard Feynman, Jay Ingram, Richard Dawkins, David Bodanis, Stephen Hawking, many biographies and more. The math still eludes me a bit but the books find me wanting more and more.

OK, so there I am in the college library with shelves upon shelves of quantum mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, cosmology, Molecular biology and so much more. It’s like being in a candy store. The problem is there are so many, I don’t know where to start. I pull out books, thinking, “this looks good” or “too much math” or “I need more of an introductory” or “that’s too introductory”.

So then my brain – heavily programmed, wants to start looking for the rankings of these books, see how they have been rated. My brain wants to look at the comments and see how many votes each book has gotten.

And then I realize.., I spend too much time on VideoSift!