Vandaag ontdek ik dat het vandaag Inge Lehmans verjaardag is. Ter ere van haar geboorte, 127 jaar geleden, krijgt ze op google.com een doodle: de twee o’s van google vormen de aarde. Ik zoek ‘Inge Lehman’. Op wikipedia ontdek ik dat ze in 1936 de kern van de aarde heeft ontdekt. Dan de laatste regel:
On May 13th, 2015, the 127th anniversary of her birth, Google dedicated its worldwide Google Doodle to her.
Iemand voegt in wikipedia de informatie toe waardoor ik zojuist bij de informatie kwam. Narcissus tuurt naar zijn spiegelbeeld in het water. Ik zoek verder, ik wil informatie over Inge Lehman, geen informatie over vandaag. Vandaag, op 13 mei 2015, is er een aardbeving in Nepal. Google schrijft op google.com/doodles:
News of a second major earthquake within a short time in Nepal today provides a sad context to this post.
At the turn of the twentieth century, a teenager in Østerbro, Denmark felt the ground move beneath her feet. It was her first earthquake, but it wouldn’t be her last.
More than two decades of study and observation later, Inge Lehmann’s work sent shockwaves through the scientific community. By observing earthquakes, she discovered the earth has both inner and outer cores. Her work has withstood the test of time. In fact, it’s still the foundation for seismological science today.
Inge used deduction and evidence to discover something unseeable. Today’s Doodle sheds light on her powerful but invisible discovery. Doodler Kevin Laughlin helps us experience the gift Inge illuminated for the world by revealing it as a glowing orb. Not all of his early drafts looked the same, but the earth’s inner core glowed at the center of each.
Pioneers like Inge make this world a better place by helping us understand it from the inside out. But Lehmann’s legacy isn’t just scientific. Having been educated at a very young age in a Copenhagen school that treated female and male students as absolute equals, she was a strong proponent of gender equality. Her pioneering spirit is an inspiration to us as we continue to do more on diversity.
Opnieuw duizelt het. De willekeur van willekeur. Er is vandaag een aardbeving, dus een aardbeving in de tekst over Inge Lehman. Dan moet je alle informatie meenemen bij informatie.