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The Quantified Brain of a Self-Tracking Neuroscientist
A neuroscientist is getting a brain scan twice every week for a year to try to see how neural networks behave over time
Russell Poldrack, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, is undertaking some intense introspection. Every day, he tracks his mood and mental state, what he ate, and how much time he spent outdoors. Twice a week, he gets his brain scanned in an MRI machine. And once a week, he has his blood drawn so that it can be analyzed for hormones and gene activity levels. Poldrack plans to gather a year’s worth of brain and body data to answer an unexplored question in the neuroscience community: how do brain networks behave and change over a year?
OH MY GOD, ELLEN. IS THIS AT YOUR SCHOOL?! WHY IS THIS NOT ME?!
The first thing I thought when I read the top part was “UT!!! :D”
And then I read through it and was like, “Whoa!!”
AND THEN I SAW MY NAME AND IT WAS COOL.
But seriously, this is awesome. The most I’ve ever tracked was liquid intake versus how many times I peed, but this is obviously way more legit.
I’m excited to see what comes of this! And if he does a seminar or a talk or something cool like that.
CWL: Bill Nye the Science Guy
bvix:
-Season 1
1. Flight
2. The Earth’s Crust
3. Dinosaurs
4. Skin
5. Buoyancy
6. Gravity
7. Digestion
8. Phases of Matter
9. Biodiversity
10. Simple Machines
11. The Moon
12. Sound
13. Garbage
14. Structures
15. Earth’s Seasons
16. Light and Colour
17. Cells
18. Electricity
19. Outer Space
20. Eyeballs-Season 2
1. Magnetism
2. Wind
3. Blood and Circulation
4. Chemical Reactions
5. Static Electricity
6. Food Web
7. Light Optics
8. Bones and Muscles
9. Ocean Currents
10. Heat
11. Insects
12. Balance
13. The Sun
14. The Brain
15. Forests
16. Communication
17. Momentum
18. Reptiles
19. Atmosphere
20. Respiration-Season 3
1. Planets and Moon
2. Pressure
3. Plants
4. Rocks and Soil
5. Energy
6. Evolution
7. Water Cycle
8. Friction
9. Germs
10. Climates
11. Waves
12. Ocean Life
13. Mammals
14. Spinning Things
15. Fish
16. Human Transportation
17. Wetlands
18. Birds
19. Populations
20. Animal Locomotion-Season 4
1. Rivers and Streams
2. Nutrition
3. Marine Mammals
4. Earthquakes
5. NTV Top 11 Video Countdown
6. Spiders
7. Pollution Solutions
8. Probability
9. Pseudoscience
10. Flowers
11. Archaeology
12. Deserts
13. Amphibians
14. Volcanoes
15. Invertebrates
16. Heart
17. Inventions
18. Computers
19. Fossils
20. Time-Season 5
1. Forensics
2. Space Exploration
3. Genes
4. Architecture
5. Farming
6. Life Cycles
7. Do-It-Yourself Science
8. Atoms and Molecules
9. Ocean Exploration
10. Lakes and Ponds
11. Smell
12. Caves
13. Fluids
14. Erosion
15. Comets and Meteors
16. Storms
17. Measurement
18. Patterns
19. Science of Music
20. Motion
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MARSHMALLOWS AND COOKIE!
To make the magic happen yourself:
- Take a cookie of your choice.
- Place marshmallows on top.
- Microwave until it looks wonderful. The marshmallows will expand a lot. (That’s Charles’s Law for ya. SCIENCE!!)
- Take it out! Either have a towel or an extra plate handy so that you take it out without burning yourself. You don’t want to wait too long for it to cool, because then it won’t be wonderfully gooey!
- ENJOY IT!
An illustration from the 1840s of surgeon James Young Simpson and his friends who would spend evenings together sampling new chemicals to see if they had any anaesthetic effect. Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and successfully introduced it for medical use where it quickly replaced ether as the anaesthetic of choice.
Hehe I used chloroform in pchem lab last week (and we boiled it, no less), and I felt super intense.
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if you like water, you already like 72% of me
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I hope this electrifies your day. You know you can’t resist.
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In Transport we were talking about fluid flow around objects.
At some point the professor brings up how golf balls are dimpled to reduce drag.
So then I got to thinking…
What if cellulite is actually there to reduce drag? I mean so many people have it, so in terms of survival of the fittest… What if cellulite actually has/had a purpose?
We can’t get rid of it, so we might as well make the best of our dimpled legs by thinking that it’s helping to reduce drag.
NASA’s Doing Something Right - via
Three cheers for the simplification of technologies I know very little about!
