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The trials, tribulations, and joys of a Neuroscience gradute student writing her thesis in the postmodern, post-Y2K world.
Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. She studies hair cell regeneration in the cochlea, and is just embarking on that quixotic quest called 'thesis.' She lies awake at night pondering how science intersects with politics, culture, policy, money, medicine, and religion in an attempt to be more than just a niche scientist sitting in the oh-so-lovely ivory tower. Follow me and my parrot on the quest to get funded, get a PhD, and stay sane.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration
Interview With Dr. Irene Pepperberg
On Religion and Taking the 'Red Pill'
Neuroscience of Cocaine Addiction
Parrots Have Object Permanance
Retrospectacle is now Of Two Minds!
June 30, 2006
Category: Red Herrings
This is the weirdest thing I've heard all week. A prisoner in Pakistan woke up last weekend and found a glass lightbulb in his anus, and a 1 and a half hour surgeyr was required to.....er....."unscrew" it. "We had to...
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Category: Tastes Like Neuroscience
RNAi, or RNA interference, is a rapidly developing and powerful tool to achieve gene silencing (turning a gene "off"). Gene silencing shows what happened in a system or organism when that gene is no longer functional. In a recent study,...
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June 29, 2006
Category: Health Care
Pharmacists are a well-educated cog in the medication wheel.
Posted by Shelley Batts at 8:37 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Stem Cells
Nature free-access articles on stem cells and potential therapeutic applications.
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Category: Things I Wish I Could Afford
A list of splendiferous gadgets compiled by yours truly! Below the fold!...
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Category: Inner Ear Biology
Hair cell protein related to genetic deafness identified.
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Category: Red Herrings
Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director. Now, you can download the movie that started it all: his seldom-seen 1951 debut "Day of the Fight." Shot by the 21-year-old filmmaker in 1950, the 16-minute documentary traces a day in the life...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2006
Category: Pepper
Wanna see a bird just like Pepper entertaing everyone with his speech and mimicry skills? Thanks to Blas for this amazing YouTube movie that is a lot of fun. These birds are amazing talkers, check it out!!!...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 3:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mix Tapes
1. And it Rained All Night- Tom Yorke (Radiohead's frontman's solo album "The Eraser" has been leaked. Its Kid A-Ok.) 2. The Only Difference Between Marytrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage- Panic at the Disco (Fallout Boy's progeny become their...
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Category: Poetry
Whilst perusing my latest copy of SEED magazine, I came across an interesting poetry structure not unlike a haiku. What I'm talking about is "the Fib," which is a poetic structure based on the Fibonacci sequence; the lines consist of...
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