Scientists find way to erase memories in mice
It seems like a movie plot, but scientists have developed a way to erase specific memories in mice while leaving others intact and not damaging the brain.
By manipulating levels of an important protein in the brain, certain memories can be selectively deleted, researchers led by neurobiologist Joe Tsien [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The Spotless Mind
Posted in Things that were lost, my Lord on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A breath of… fresh air
Posted in Discoveries on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve discovered that I like most of the songs on Avril Lavigne’s second album, as well as a few other songs. Have been paralysed discovering them for the first time the whole evening. (all right, all right, I’m slow to find out these things)…. I think I like them because they’re vicarious ventilating, at the top [...]
Scarlet Fever
Posted in Humour on October 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For any medical students reading this:
What did Beth die of in Little Women?
Yes, I vaguely recall her contracting scarlet fever but I never thought to wonder why she continued to be so sickly, dying young and providing the book’s central tragedy.
K guys, you know the answer. What is a late complication of scarlet fever (in the [...]
Theme song #1: Peter Pan and the Pirates
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First in a series to come of my favourite theme songs.
Possibly my number one favourite cartoon when I was young, this cartoon showed only at 3pm on Sundays on the Chinese channel, dubbed in Mandarin with Mandarin fan ti zi subtitles, so that it wasn’t till almost 15 years later that I found out it was [...]
Quiet Time
Posted in my Lord on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lord, may my prayers to you
Not be the babblings of a fool
Who sees only his troubles, his wants,
And not what you want him to do in the face of them all.
Lord, if the trouble I face
Makes me falter, how small is my strength!
Let me take these hardships and messes in stride
And not stumble
But learn how [...]
Mistaken
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stressed about things that shouldn’t be stressful. I’ve never stepped on so many people’s toes / been involved in so many miscommunications in 2 weeks before IN MY LIFE : P Not even in 4 years of hall life, some of which were spent being a leader in various committees, nor even in Year 2 as I/C [...]
