http://www.mylifemypace.com Just another WordPress site Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:57:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mylifemypace.com/2006/06/14/88/ http://www.mylifemypace.com/2006/06/14/88/#comments Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:13:13 +0000 mylifemypace http://www.mylifemypace.com/?p=88 Continue reading →]]> Playing excessive video games as a teenager can stunt development of the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain responsible for executive functions such as impulse control, emotion regulation, and social skills. Huh. No wonder my husband’s psycho ex-girlfriend is such a crazy, manipulative…uh…person. She probably has a prefrontal cortex the size of a pea. And those claims that playing video games might improve IQ are definitely lost on her as well.

]]> http://www.mylifemypace.com/2006/06/14/88/feed/ 0 http://www.mylifemypace.com/2006/06/14/evil-pollen-is-pretty/ http://www.mylifemypace.com/2006/06/14/evil-pollen-is-pretty/#comments Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:09:08 +0000 mylifemypace http://www.mylifemypace.com/?p=87 Continue reading →]]> I hate pollen. It makes me suffer needlessly come springtime. But it sure looks pretty and innocuous under scanning electron microscopy. Why, Pollen, why must you torture me so? Check out this SEM of pollen here as well as other neat-o SEMs of other things, such as this cute little platelet hanging out with red blood cells.

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