I haven't had much time lately to update this page, or really even the drive to write or post anything here. This is goodbye. You can reach me at burstbuckerprov@gmail.com if you like.
Long Term Effects of Marijuana Use on the Brain, Filbey, Francesca M. et al, 2014 PNAS 111:47
The title says it all—A lack of information regarding the long-term effects of marijuana use on the structure and function of the human brain was the driving force behind this study. In order to best elucidate the characteristics of the brain, the authors chose gray matter (GM) volume...
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“Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.”
–Ha-Joon Chang
Fundamental to the question of the roles of the political system in policy making is the setup of the Swiss political system in and of itself. The government is split into three distinct branches, in order to enact a separation of...
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I need someone's perspective. I might have been wrong to write these things, but fuck it. I'm done with this girl. She dumped me after months of abusing me psychologically, criticising me for things I had no control over (for example: being born in a middle class family), and even things as basic as my refusal to believe in a higher power. Yeah... being an...
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Hey all,
I'm still alive. Just up to my balls (and then some) in my toxicology course, for which there's an exam next week. All the course materials are in German. (Gibt's unter meinen Folgern welche Deutschsprachigen?)
This is, however, the least of my worries now. I met with a good friend of mine last night for drinks. She's always been unstable, I think, and...
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I'm sorry SG, but I haven't had much to say that is of any consequence lately. So I figured, why force it? But now I have a few things to talk about.
First, I'm happy to be back on my laptop! Its power-supply adapter died a sudden and mysterious death, and left me scrambling to do anything for about a week now. My brother out...
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http://www.livescience.com/51032-sawfish-have-virgin-births.html
For those of you who have even a passing interest in the natural sciences, this ought to be a hit. First evidence of virgin birth occurring in vertebrates. For the longest time, the closest anyone has come to demonstrating the phenomenon of virgin birth was parthenogenesis, being the development of an unfertilized egg into, for example in bees, a male.
This is a find...
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