Cedar Writes

Category: science

  • The Value Of Humanity

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    If this is true—if Russians are dying for lack of hope, as they seem to be—then the question that is still looking for its researcher is, Why haven’t Russians experienced hope in the last quarter century? Or, more precisely in light of the grim continuity of Russian death, What happened to Russians over the course…

  • Following my Gut

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    And no, I don’t refer to needing to lose weight. Over the last day or two, I’ve had a conversation about ‘getting a weird vibe” from a person, a bad feeling about a job I had to do, and a gut reading of a group of people I ran into. I’m not one to be…

  • Before the Black Death

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    There was Justinian’s Plague. Blamed for, among other things, the fall of Rome, it devastated Europe in a time most of us know little about. I wrote a short (very short) paper on it for class, which I am sharing. Also, in an endeavour to get to know Photoshop better, I created a bit of…

  • The Bloody Death

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    Ebola is a frightening disease for many reasons. High fatality rate, high infectious rate, rapid travel through a community, strikes at those who are needed most in a health emergency… but perhaps the worst is the way you die, your organs a bloody soup. I’ve read a lot about Ebola, and it’s cousin the Marburg…

  • Ride ‘Em Cowgirl

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    Ok, so I’m being silly… I was thinking ‘link round-up’ and that title is what came out. However! There’s some really interesting stuff here, and I’m going to try and do this more often, since I frequently come across blogs and articles I’d like to share. First, a link to a very important science topic.  “Belief…

  • Autodidact

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    Teaching oneself has never been easier in this day and age. Even for college-level work, there are more sites out there than I could name, youtube is chock-full of lessons, lectures, and useful hints for remembering chunks of necessary data. I’m up to my eyeballs in Chemistry as I have another exam today. Rushing through…

  • Chemistry?

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    I like chemistry. But I’ve been sick for two days, and that means I’m scrambling to finish my homework for today’s class, and… have no time to post here. So, if you want to see an example: Warm objects emit electromagnetic radiation in the infrared region. Heat lamps employ this principle to generate infrared radiation.…

  • Math and Academic papers

    Math and Academic papers

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    I have a pre-calculus exam in the late morning, and a take-home Epidemiology exam to turn in this evening. Other than explaining the rules of logarithms and exponents to you all, which I’m pretty sure no one wants to hear (at least not on my blog) I can’t think what to say. I did run…

  • Casting Doubts

    Casting Doubts

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    Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?  Your impudence protects you sairly;  I canna say but ye strunt rarely,  Owre gauze and lace;  Tho’, faith! I fear ye dine but sparely  On sic a place.  Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner,  Detested, shunn’d by saunt an’ sinner,  How daur ye set your fit upon her-  Sae fine a lady?  Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner  On some poor body. —Robert Burns…

  • Art and Research

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    I’ve compiled a bunch of links to free online images, books, and miscellany relating to both art and history. It wasn’t a concious decision, it’s one of those things that float through my vision as I’m diving into the ‘net and I grab links. For one thing, as an artist, studying art is like… eating,…

  • This is Your Brain on Bugs

    This is Your Brain on Bugs

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    I’m sitting in microbiology class listening to a lecture on diseases of the gastrointestinal system and when my professor shared an article I had a small revelation. I’ve pondered before the links between stress and creativity, the oft-repeated claims that depression is necessary for the creative, and the connections between mental illness and writers. But…