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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
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Posted on: December 20, 2006 10:45 AM, by Jake Young
There is some good stuff on Scienceblogs right now:
Evolgen has an article about how the oft quoted 1% genetic difference between chimps and humans may hide much larger differences due to copy number and expression differences.
Jonah Lehrer reports on how the function of dreams may be to replay and consolidate daytime memories.
Mixing Memory mentions a paper that compares money and money-seeking behavior to drugs. Interesting. I never thought that Kara was into that sort of thing.
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