Yesterday I had a cavity drilled and filled with no Novocain. That was fun! While at the Dentist I read a magazine and found articles about Titan and Autism.
The article about Titan was particularly cool, because it talked about work that my advisor was a part of for the Cassini space probe currently orbiting Saturn and doing flybys of Titan. My graduate research revolved around atmospheric loss and Titan is proving to be quite a find for data to my old research group. So much so, I am negotiating getting back in with them part-time to help decipher data from Titan as it related to my graduate research work back in the late '90s.
Discover Magazine Mirror World Article
The article about Autism was equally fascinating and looked at genetic triggers that could be set off by environmental condition, in particular toxins. Combined, the two things can cause issues in brain tissue, gastrointestinal, and neurological development, and that these may all be associated with Autism. Quite a cool read.
Discover Magazine Autism Article
Last night, watched a show n Discovery in which they spent about five minutes talking about the Martian atmosphere and its loss of the last billion plus years due to sputtering. This was my exact graduate research and my jaw dropped as they pretty much discussed the basic content of the papers we published about atmospheric loss on Mars.
Today, had another EKG due to an extended period of left arm pain (going on 12 days now). Results were normal, so they sent me for X-Rays and gave me some muscle relaxants, one of which can apparently make me go temporarily blind.
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