September 2011
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i think i want to be a clinical psychiatrist….just a thought
The Civil Wars - Falling
Listening this right now.
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.” —Lord Byron
There is rapture on the lonely shore;
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.” —Lord Byron
Eddie Vedder Society
“When you want more than you have, you think you need and when you think more than you want, your thoughts begin to bleed”
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“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
—“1984” (George Orwell)
“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.”
—Wendelin Van Draanen (via danceabletragedy)
“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.”
—Laurell K. Hamilton (via danceabletragedy)
03 Runaround Sue - G-Eazy ft. Greg Banks
Cool song although I don’t fancy rap:)
Two brain halves, one perception →
medicalxpress.com
Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, which are linked through only a few connections. However, we do not seem to have a problem to create a coherent image of our environment – our perception is not “split” in two halves. For the seamless unity of our subjective experience, information from both hemispheres needs to be efficiently integrated. The corpus callosum, the largest fibre bundle connecting the left and right side of our brain, plays a major role in this process. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt investigated whether differences between individuals in the anatomy of the corpus callosum would predict how observers perceive a visual stimulus for which the left and right hemisphere need to cooperate. As their results indicate, the characteristics of specific callosal fibre tracts are related to the subjective experience of individuals.
Bacteria vs. Virus
It’s really easy to mix these two guys up because they’re both small but viruses and bacteria are very different!
Bacteria: given the proper nutrients, they can grow and live on their own. Think Beyonce, she’s miss indepdent…lol -_-
Viruses: can not “live” or reproduce without getting inside some living cell, whether it’s a plant, animal, or bacteria. Think of vampires, they can’t live without your blood.
And compared to viruses, bacteria are HUGE! (Big-butt Beyonce eh ehhh? haha)
Example:
Staphylococcus(bacteria)~2micrometers
Ebola viruses~ 200 nanometers
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
—(via sparkmaschine)
“We can tell our children that school is important until we’re blue in the face, they’re not stupid. They see the loudest applause is for the kids on the field. They know teachers are paid poorly and don’t drive fancy cars. They know people plan Super Bowl parties but mock the National Spelling Bee. In other words, they see the hypocrisy, and we can’t expect society to correct itself. If we want to have any lasting influence on the way our kids approach education — the way future generations approach education — then we have to grab our pom-poms and paint our faces and celebrate intellectual curiosity with the same vigor we do their athletic achievements.”
—Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd - CNN.com (via mendmyheart)
People piss me off!
I don’t know about other science majors, but I get really really pissed off when people mistake me for a biology major. As a biological chemistry major I’m accused of being the same as a biology major.
“It’s basically the same thing…” that statement is the catalyst to a long angry explanation of what I learn. Although we do have overlapping curriculum…we also have a lot that is Not the same and I go into this long list of how it’s not. I’ll typically go into detail on the type of epigentic research I did with my professor. The blank stares I get in response to that just anger me even more!
And not until now do I have a simple and clear answer on why biology is not the same thing as biochemistry:
Biochemists, like chemists, perform experiments to show relationships exist in science; if a relationship exists then the experiment must be repeatable. Biologists make observations that do not establish relationships.
Example: The connection that cigerettes cause lung cancer does Not prove the relationship exists. Although it is likely, and we can make key assumptions based on other evidences, that relationship does not exist! You can not literally provide proof to me!! Can you just imagine that experiment? People have never been subjected to that kind of experiment…it would be inhumane!
Control Group A: don’t smoke for 2 years.
Experimental Group B: smoke cigarettes every day for 2 years.
Results: Cancer appeared in Group B after 2 years.
NO, not how it works in my book!
I got the job! I’m going to be a scribe, aka…I’m going to be a doctor’s bitch!!! And i’m excited ^_^
