Its strange to see the semester and this class coming to an end. All the hard work we all put into our projects, all the guest speakers, and all the fun art work we’ve done has made this a great … Continue reading
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The festival today was great fun! It was incredibly engaging to meet so many people so interested in our work and what we had to say. The locale was great, there were so many people and I feel like I … Continue reading
What a great class! It was so fun to see people’s midterms, and hear them explain their thought processes. I also enjoyed having other people question and describe my own choice, the knitted brain art. Other students brought up points … Continue reading
I really enjoyed professor Ellerby’s talk on muscles and movement in conjunction with the great exercise we got from the NIA routine! It was fun to see many different techniques from martial art, dance and mindfulness be combined into a … Continue reading
Here is my piece for the visual art and prions assignment. I chose to represents the beta sheets of PrPSc, after the alpha helices of PrPc have been misfolded and malformed into the infectious PrPSc structure. This flip from … Continue reading
I enjoyed the discussion we had in class on whether sonifying prions related to neurological disorders as Creutzfeldth-Jakob disease was ethical or not. Trying to create something possibly aesthetic out of something harmful may seem undesirable and malign. However, music … Continue reading
Prions at night One night a protein did something unplanned, Up in the brainstem, had a great one-night stand, With a prion of a seemingly plain disposition, But he didn’t know this was a prion with a mission. This … Continue reading
I found it so great that in the Protein Database reading, they reference the cannibalism in Papua New Guinea that we studied earlier this week. It is great to be able to refer back to our knowledge of the case … Continue reading
Like Diana, I was also struck by the conversation we had about synesthesia, and how many class members seem to have some form of it (truly amazing!). Last semester I was in an amazing Russian literature class where we read … Continue reading