Tag: science
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Intro to Neuropsychological Research: Single and Double Dissociations
I hate it when my titles feel longer than the blog post itself. It’s much simpler than it sounds: these are experiments that combines several experiments that act as ‘Block and Determine’ situations that establish a connection between two parts of the brain and its function. I’ll make it even easier for you! I’ll list…
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Science Basics: Turning a Theory into a Law
In recent times, it seems that people have come to distrust science as a ‘system of beliefs’ rather than ‘the pursuit of knowledge’. Of course, humans have biases that shape what we do, but when it comes to reporting a compelling theory or stating a new natural law, scientists do their homework. Here’s how.
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Calculus Cheat Sheet
Leave the English language at the door and study with me. Here is a summary of the last 5 weeks worth of calculus I learned.
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Hominin Evolution
This may be a touchy subject, but I’m in the process of reviewing this material for a midterm later on this month. I need to ace this class. Let’s get on with it!
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Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
Once you start college-level biology, you’ll never stop hearing about evolution and its many tentacles on the subject. But this is the only tentacle that has human history written with an ape’s head in its armpit, the facet of evolution that offers the most controversy. For some, it’s religiously based (understandable) and for others, it’s a…
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The Nernst and Goldman Equations
In any science class, math is used to describe phenomena quantitatively. In neuroscience, we use math to describe the conductance of ions and the permeability of the neuronal membrane to ions.
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NEUR100: Neurons are specialized cells
Only so long ago, (ie January) I started my Neuro100 class with the wonderful Professor Wasserman as our guide. If there’s anything I’ve learn in these three months, it’s that everything we want to know and ever have known was because someone asked a question. In a lot of my future science blogs, many of…
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Compare and Constrast: Improving 1st Year Science Paper
In this blog post I will go over the typical format of a first year scientific paper. This sort of paper includes only a short introduction, a figure, and a results ‘paragraph’. A ‘paragrapgh’ can be anything from a couple of sentences to a page and a half long and drescibes the methods of your…
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