When university is over, your poor behaviours do not immediately vanish. The author contrasts education and work to provide insight into the life of a data scientist. On reflection, she found that she applied excessive pressure on herself; she’d spend a whole week studying for a midterm, hardly leaving her room except to print out more practice tests. While having a full-time job gives stability, working until 1am for no reason other than “I’m getting close to addressing this problem!” seems to have stuck with her. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
