by Soundarya | Oct 25, 2020 | General Information, Life
I made the decision to attend the Women in Product 2020 Virtual Conference just a few days before the conference itself. Until then, I was on the fence about the value of a virtual conference. But, curiosity took over, and I wanted to see it for myself. Before...
by Soundarya | Oct 2, 2020 | General Information, Technology
I learned that the term Stockholm Syndrome came from an incident that happened in 1972 in a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. Four employees of a bank were held hostage by two captors for six days. In the end, after the police caught the captors, none of the hostages...
by Soundarya | Apr 28, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
There is something fundamentally mischievous about the human memory. We might remember an incident from when we were ten years old, perhaps of a rainy day when our mom let us buy butterscotch ice cream at the kiosk next to school. But most of us...
by Soundarya | Apr 13, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
What does it mean to learn? What happens in your brain when you learn a new word, play a new instrument, or learn to shoot a basketball through the hoop? If we all have the same three-pound gooey jelly of a brain, why is someone able to learn faster than the...
by Soundarya | Mar 30, 2020 | Life, Neuroscience
It’s been two weeks since I began working from home, in a 10×10 ft room populated by a queen size bed, an oddly shaped cabinet for clothes, books against the window, a range of pictures taped to the wall, and now a modestly sized desk that buttresses...
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