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...
by Soundarya | Mar 20, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
Using Notion and Roam for GTD, Zettelkasten, and Progressive Summarization. When I think about my childhood, only a few memories come to mind. Practicing for a dance show that my friends and I hosted every year for our 20 or so neighbors in a suburb....
by Soundarya | Mar 13, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
I never imagined living through a global pandemic like the coronavirus. I was too young to remember both the dot com and the housing collapse (or maybe the effects of it weren’t too pronounced in my location in India). But the past few months, and more so the...
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