I've got a test tomorrow for our neuroscience course. The course is "Brain and Behavior," so it's really more a neuro-psych course. It's hyper-compressed, accomplished in just 3 weeks of lectures with 7 labs dispersed throughout. The labs emphasize functional anatomy and the lectures do everything else ( Read more... )

Iraq "is really just symbolic of a country, its borders drawn-up free-hand by a bunch of British soldiers in 1920."

So instead I'm reading the NYTimes. Yes, let's look at this most insightful comment from a letter to the editor ( Read more... )

Ever wondered what happens when you hook up a hair cell from someone's inner ear and adjust the voltage passing through it? Scientists found out!

http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/ashmore/ohc2-s.mpg

We got an email today asking for participants in a study. I kid you not, the description was:

"[Participants] will be heading a soccer ball ~7 times in 3 different shoes for ~21
trials."

Well, to start, I'm not at any home right now. I'm sitting on a bed in the Highlander Inn by Manchester airport. The weather forecast is calling for a ton of crummy weather tomorrow morning (1 inch of sleet plus 1/4 inch of freezing rain), and so since I'd be doing most of my driving to the airport before sunrise, it seemed to make sense that I ( Read more... )

It's really strange. This past semester I had a blast. I absolutely loved what I learned, and I left all excited about going back. But since being home, I'm losing enthusiasm about it, and in fact, right now, I'm dreading going back. I just don't want to. It's so bizarre ( Read more... )

I received my score report for the "Music Content Knowledge" test PRAXIS exam (teacher certification standardized tests). I passed with a great score. And this is kind of interesting, because I've never studied music education. As one would expect, I did well on "music history & lit," "music theory," and "performance." But then I also did ( Read more... )

INSANE MED SCHOOL DREAMS ( Read more... )

I feel underwhelmed. I felt like I'd have so much to say from home, so many deep insights or something. And instead I feel like there's very little at all to say. Or even more that I simply am not putting out things to say. It's as if nothing is coalescing into words ( Read more... )