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Growing up won't bring us down.

Following up from my last post, I went to the doctor. Thankfully, my sleep issues turned out to be post-viral fatigue which I think I’m free of now. Note to self, don’t write like a hypochondriac on the internet otherwise you’ll read it back a few days later and feel like a moron.

So I’ve finally found a few placements to apply for, at both pharmaceutical and non-pharma countries. One of them is…

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#regram @makerswomen #readyforMonday #motivation #inspiration Be ambitious for your whole life, and not just about your career.

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Going through the motions.

2nd year really isn’t that bad. In fact I’m enjoying the move from MCQ exam questions to actual written ones. I’ve always had more confidence in my words than my ability to recall facts, it’s why I secretly didn’t mind the waste of time that was my General Studies A Level. It’s even sunk in just how hard I have to work this year and I think I’ve grown from the person I was last year so I should…

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Beautiful online neuroscience learning

The Fundamentals of Neuroscience is a free online course from Harvard and it looks wonderful – thanks to them employing animators, digital artists and scientists to lift the course above the usual read and repeat learning.

The course is already underway but you can register and start learning until mid-December and you can watch any of the previews to get a feel for what’s being taught. You need to register to access the full content but there’s plenty of trailers online. Great stuff.

Link to ‘Fundamentals of Neuroscience’ course.

Source: Mind Hacks

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Your mental and physical health comes before anything. Exams can be redone. Your life can’t.

Don’t stress. It will be okay. Concentrate on yourself. Your mental and physical health comes before anything. (via crimson-and-bittersweet)

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My GHC 2014 Experience!

My GHC 2014 Experience

The Grace Hopper Celebration…where do I begin? This was the first time I’ve travelled without my family as well as my first time in the USA. It would be a understatement to say that I was excited. I was doing last minute packing with a smile on my face and didn’t sleep before I had to board a coach on Monday night. After over 28 hours of travelling- which included two coach journeys to Heathrow,…

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A User’s Guide to the Human Body: The Muscle Edition

This infographic describes skeletal muscles, which are structurally different from heart muscle and the smooth muscle that controls digestion. Unlike heart and smooth muscle, skeletal muscle can be voluntarily controlled.

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I love it when younger girls look up to older girls as role models and heroes. I love it when older girls enthusiastically support and protect younger girls. I love it when girls are psyched about the skills and accomplishments of other girls, I love it when girls compliment each other, take care of each other, encourage each other. I love it when girls realize how awesome and important they are. I love it when girls are fuckin’ pumped about girls.

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'if at first you don't succeed…' The science version!

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Something for this time of year.

Autoimmune Disease Acts Like Demonic Possession

Susannah Cahalan started feeling a bit off. Numbness on one side of the body, losing sleep, crying hysterically one minute and laughing the next. She went to get MRIs but they showed nothing. Things were getting a bit more strange.

Her boyfriend told her how at one point while they were watching a show together she started grinding her teeth, moaning, and biting her tongue until she finally passed out. He took her to the hospital and they found out it was a seizure. Her first of many. Things got worse.

She stopped eating, became paranoid and delusional, had more seizures in which blood would spurt out of her mouth. She was hospitalized (one nurse recalls that in the middle of the night while she was getting blood, Susannah sat up straigh and slapped her). Numerous tests were done and the doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong.

That is until Dr. Souhel Najjar came into the picture. He asked her to draw a clock. When she showed him what she had drawn he knew exactly what was wrong with her. All the numbers were written on the right side of the clock face, and no numbers were on the left side.

She had anti-NMDAR encephalitis. The receptors in the frontal lobe, responsible for cognitive reasoning, and the limbic system, or the emotional center of the brain, are under assault by the immune system. In other words, her body was attacking her brain. Nearly 90% of people that suffer from this go undiagnosed and it is more common in women.

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"If I give a public lecture to a bunch of high school students and I talk about the role that neural oscillations play in coordinating information transfer via spiked timing relative to oscillatory phases, people’s eyes glaze over by the third word. Whereas if I go into a classroom and I start talking about why do zombies crave human flesh, what in their brains might make them do this, then people pay attention."

Bradley Voytek, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science and Neuroscience at UC San Diego and a member of the Zombie Research Society.

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Excellent.

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Life goal: to have a job title with 'Princess' in there somewhere.

Via A Mighty Girl:

Professional hacker Parisa Tabriz is responsible for keeping the nearly billion users of Google Chrome safe by finding vulnerabilities in their system before malicious hackers do. Tabriz, a “white hat” hacker who calls herself Google’s “Security Princess”, is head of the company’s information security engineering team. The 31-year-old Polish-Iranian-American is also an anomaly in Silicon Valley according to a recent profile in The Telegraph: “Not only is she a woman – a gender hugely under-represented in the booming tech industry – but she is a boss heading up a mostly male team of 30 experts in the US and Europe.” Tabriz came up with “Security Princess” while at a conference and the unusual title is printed on her business card. “I knew I’d have to hand out my card and I thought Information Security Engineer sounded so boring,” she says. “Guys in the industry all take it so seriously, so security princess felt suitably whimsical.” Her curiosity, mischievousness, and innovative thinking are all assets in her business: a high-profile company like Google is constantly in the crosshairs of so-called “black hat” hackers. Tabriz came into internet security almost by accident; at the University of Illinois’ computer engineering program, her interest was first whetted by the story of early hacker John Draper, who became known as Captain Crunch in the 1960s after he learned how to make free long-distance calls using a toy whistle from a Cap’n Crunch cereal box. She realized that, to beat the hackers of today, she had to be prepared for similar — but more advanced — out-of-the-box thinking. While women at still very under-represented in the tech industry — Google recently reported that only 30% of its staff is female — Tabriz has hope for the future: “[F]ifty years ago there were similar percentages of women in medicine and law, now thankfully that’s shifted.” And, while she hasn’t encountered overt sexism at Google, when she was offered the position, at least one classmate said, “you know you only got it cos you’re a girl.” To help address this imbalance, she mentors under-16 students at a yearly computer science conference that teaches kids how to “hack for good” — and she especially encourages girls to pursue internet security work. One 16-year-old who attended, Trinity Nordstrom, says, “Parisa is a good role model, because of her I’d like to be a hacker.” Tabriz, who was named by Forbes as one of the “top 30 under 30 to watch” in 2012, also wants the public to realize that hacking can be used for positive ends. “[H]acking can be ugly,” she says. “The guy who published the private photos of those celebrities online made headlines everywhere. What he did was not only a violation of these women but it was criminal, and as a hacker I was very saddened by it. I feel like we, the hackers, need better PR to show we’re not all like that… [A]fter all I’m in the business of protecting people.” To read more about Google’s “Security Princess” in The Telegraph, visit http://bit.ly/Z6Z5RG

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I'm guilty of being part of the 95% who use a device in the hour before bed. Trying to change that though!

How Technology Affects Sleep

If you’re addicted to watching television before bed, or frequently get rudely awoken by your mobile in the middle of the night, read on to discover how these factors can influence your sleep, and what you can do to achieve a better night’s sleep.

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He has a point.

💯💯💯

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Might just email this to my lecturers.

why can’t my teacher do this? lol