Author: kjoanna224
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2021. 05. 31: Ted Talk: “A Hand to Reach Out: The unwillingness to address female menstruation in public media and why we need to change perspectives”
This is slight bit of my rant, but for Finals for my debate class (and yes, I take Debate despite by quite shy personality when it comes to debating), we were assigned to persuade the audience on why we need to care about __________________, whether it be a social issue, an environmental deterioration issue, WHATEVER…
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Thank you YYGS <3
My closing seminar just ended, with everyone sending love emojis, thank yous and shoutouts to the wonderful family time groups and friends! Throughout the past two weeks of YYGS, despite starting and ending the sessions much later than the usual New Haven time, it really was an eye opening experience. I remember the first day…
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THE BEST FAMILY TIME EVER HAHAHAHA
(Sidenote: I joined class at the wrong time AGAIN today and today was a hectic day so I literally had to borrow my mother’s phone, turn on hotspot in the elevator and join my first class, which unfortunately was seminar (THE TIMING)) YEs. So it was hectic, and I rushed home until I realized the…
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Third Seminar: Nature already did it better: How to hijack millions of years of evolution to give humans superpowers
By Jack Moen The seminar divided the possible traits by superheroes! Superheroes and how we could possibly mimic their abilities: Deadpool – Super healing & super cancer powers Is super healing possible? Borrowing from animals: African Spiny Mouse Mouse never really gets scars, always able to regenerate tissue Controversial because first discovered mammal that can…
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Second Seminar: Understanding PageRank: Google’s renowned Search Engine. Does it need updating?
By Matthew Stephens Pagerank is Google’s renowned algorithm and foundation of Goolge How Google Search Works Index (giant library of search) 1. Try to understand what you’re looking for 2. Shift through millions of matchign index —> page with most relevant info on top factors: Page containing words you’re searching for appear on top Location…
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Lecture 2 – Robots that Teach by Brian Scassellati
*The lecture was led by the professor that had advised me to send my email to other professors actually working on microbes (during my article for microinsectbots) Autism kids wanted to play with the robots for 5 hours (perseveration on topic of interest) Behave as if they were interactive normally with these socially engaging robots…
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Lecture 1 – Understanding the geometry and topology of big biomedical data by Smita Krishnaswamy
(Honestly this was one of the most difficult lectures I’ve ever heard, so my notes on this were VERY messy) Big biomedical data = lots of observations and efeatures of each of observations Patient data : units of observations are different patients Features : what you’re measuring FMRI measure proxy for activity of brain reagions…
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First Seminar (CONTINUED): Off with their heads…and onto another body: Frankenstein science in the modern era
Day Two Refresher: Theoretically possible to transplant human head (mice, dogs, monkeys) Don’t know what complications may arise because no animal can communicate their pain Longest animal experiments were still relatively short even for lifespan No one is volunteering to be the first person for head transplant because very high chance of mortality (death) Could…
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First Seminar: Off with their heads…and onto another body: Frankenstein science in the modern era
Instructor: Mr. Jack Moen Today was my first seminar of YYGS and my second day of the program! Yesterday was when I had family time (kind of like advisory)! Our mentor is Maddy from Dartmouth ( a neuroscience major) who is extremely affable and so relatable and just really warm-hearted. Then we had the lecture…
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ACS SCI-COMP RESULTS:
We received a total of 35 submissions! (+more), but we also had more late submissions. Despite this, we still took into account the late submissions and judged them too. Here were the results of our competition! 1rst – Audrey 2nd – Yoonjae 3rd – Jubin This is what we judged the posters by: It was…
Biochemistry Science Blog! 