Scientific Narrative
Ran by Michelle Choo
Recent posts
- Why Were the Elric Brothers Unable to Bring Back Their Mom?
- The Social Vulnerability Index: Quantitative Insights for Public Health Resources Allocation
- Can Consciousness Be Defined Quantitatively? Investigation of Neural Correlates of Consciousness
- Explain the 2025 Nobel Prize Works in Simple Words!
- Artificial Neural Network, the Brain of AI
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Hiromu Arakawa points out the limitations to the reductionist, purely technical approach to defining life and its meanings. There’s much overlooked and missed when we fixate on the numbers, components, and ingredients.
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What is the Neural Correlates of Consciousness? What is the “hard problem” of consciousness? How can we scientifically define and research what the state of consciousness is and means?
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Easy-to-follow breakdowns of the 2025 Physics, Physiology/Medicine, and Chemistry Nobel Prizes, even if you don’t know science.
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With the recent release of GPT-5, I’m amazed by the incredibly rapid development of generative AI in just the past couple of years. I do think, in many aspects, there are countless flaws and problems in these systems and that human intervention and verification are crucial for all kinds of work as of now. I…
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At Barnes and Nobles, I found an eye-catching beauty of a book, titled Poison: The History of Potions, Powders, and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard. If you know me, you’d know that I’m currently obsessed with an anime series called The Apothecary Diaries, a mystery romance about the 17-year-old apothecary Maomao, who goes around solving…
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Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University I visited the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University this afternoon. Among the collections of artworks from all across the world, I lingered in the circular room of Asian pottery and ceramics in the warmly lit first-floor gallery. How they ended up across the ocean in San Francisco, CA…
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Cancer is a global adversary that will unlikely ever have a universal cure. Nearly one in six deaths worldwide in 2020 has been due to cancer, having resulted in around 10 million deaths (World Health Organization, 2025). An umbrella term for more than 100 known types (Cancer, 2025), cancer continuously evolves alongside humanity, interacting with…
