Due to the fact that I wasn’t able to attend any of the biochem presentations because of my conflicting schedule (classes or work), I am uploading this final reflection instead on the knowledge and thoughts I’ve accumulated throughout the entirety … Continue reading
Though I initially arrived late to the science festival, I’m so glad that I was able to attend the festival in the first place. It wasn’t at all as I thought it would be, and I was surprised by how … Continue reading
(Unfortunately, my Macbook crashed and the hard drive has to be replaced, so I lost all my files and cannot record a video on this Chromebook that I’ve borrowed from the library because the functions are very limited. Instead, I … Continue reading
This is my representation of prions through visual art. What I decided to do was portray the progression of abnormal prions from first entering the cell body to after a significant amount of time passes. As you can tell from … Continue reading
I think that this class really revealed the potential connections between art and science that one can make. Admittedly, I was a little skeptical at the beginning when Professor Johnson proposed that we make music out of the prion protein … Continue reading
Once upon a time, there lay a community of normal prion proteins sprawled in the deep valleys of land Neuron. They went about their days, grasped onto the surfaces of the neurons, flexibly stretching their bodies and immersed in conversation … Continue reading
Like a couple of my other classmates have mentioned in their respective posts, this article was also very difficult for me to understand and process, because the knowledge and lingo used in the text is something I am very unfamiliar … Continue reading
“The Nature of Science” altered my views significantly on the intellectual meaning behind science. I’d always assumed that science was all-encompassing and defined the world and its choices, but reading the article, I realized that science was actually only isolated … Continue reading
(I apologize for uploading this blog post so late!) The experiment that Oliver Sacks conducted surprised (and amused) me, to say the least, but it also reminded me of encounters with muscle memory that had occurred during my (short) career … Continue reading