Hello all! I’m excited to announce a new blog I have set up over the past few weeks. Over the past four years of tutoring and mentoring medical school applicants, I found many fantastic free resources out there that I never knew about when applying to medical school. I’ve been slowly accumulating these and with […]
Have you ever looked at a QWERTY keyboard and thought, who in their right mind designed that? Well after a quick search, it seems there’s a long story full of myths and less well-known truths Myths debunked The QWERTY keyboard layout was first documented in a patent filed by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the […]
Nature is one step ahead of us in developing mind control tactics. There exists a parasitic worm, called Dicrocoelium dendriticum, which can turn ants into essentially the walking dead: they infect the brains of ants and drive them to commit suicide. Okay, maybe less mind control and more sadistic murder, but it is achieved in […]
With up to 24,000 new species being identified every year, a lot of new names need to be created. Sometimes they are given a Latin name that translates into a defining feature, sometimes it’s named after where it was found, and sometimes they are named after famous people. Here are a few weird ones I […]
In our lecture today we were introduced to a new concept called Quorum Sensing. It is essentially one way that bacteria can communicate with each other to manage huge populations. This is incredibly useful for bacteria as only when they are in large enough numbers can they do fancy things such as form biofilms, swarm, […]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48991071 I recently read an inspiring article on BBC news about a man who completely turned his life around and became a doctor. He started off as a young boy with no aspirations, hanging around with the wrong group of people, seeing his friend getting stabbed. Then, through an unfortunate accident and visit to hospital […]
Why do metal objects smell when you touch them? It turns out that this is an illusion – metal does not smell. Instead, it is the breakdown of oils in your skin that occurs after touching iron, creating the distinctive metallic smell. A good explanation is provided by LiveScience: https://www.livescience.com/4233-coins-smell.html Scientists have sniffed out the […]
Light vs Pigment White is the presence of all colors, as shown by spinning a colour wheel: However, if you mix together lots of paints together, you end up with a dark brown that gets closer to black every time you add another color. The conclusions drawn from these experiments is that white […]
Okay, not quite. But scientists at MIT have found a way to use the polymer found in nappies, polyacrylate, to create objects that shrink when dehydrated. This newly developed process called implosion fabrication allows objects to be quickly and inexpensively shrunk to the nanoscale. It has the potential to revolutionise a multitude of fields, from medicine to […]
Everyone who has ever cooked an egg knows that when you apply heat, egg white solidifies and changes consistency. If you have studied biology, you may know that this is due to the chemical changes that occur to the proteins of the egg white – they are denatured, converting them to a white solid substance. […]
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