The Preponderance of Life, Death and Me
2012 was life changing for me to say the least. There was no Mayan Apocalypse. There was no Mega CME that destroyed modern civilization. There was no zombie outbreak. My beloved father died in August and his mother followed him one month later. I did not expect this to have been so swift and so … Read more
What is Blind Sight?
I enjoy watching science documentaries especially on Science Channel. Anyone who has purused the 400 HD hours on my DVR notices that most of the items filling my DVR are science related. I especially love watching ‘Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.’ I love that cutting edge science is now part of mainstream pop culture. … Read more
The Presence and Hallucination – Sleep Paralysis and Night Terrors Revisited
Update: I wanted to revisit this blog. Last night I as I lay in bed and began to drift off. I could feel a presence almost coming through the walls of my bedroom and watching over me. I recognized this presence and feeling. I did not recognize who the presence was but what the … Read more
Attack of the Lucid Hallucinations – Charles Bonnet Syndrome | @OliverSacks
I’ve been fascinated with neuroscience all my life. As a child, I wanted to be a psychologist or psychiatrist, and study rare conditions. I remember seeing the film Awakenings and thinking how remarkable and mysterious the brain really is. The Science Channel had a short series documenting odd and rare neurological cases. One of them … Read more
TED – Craig Venter unveils “synthetic life”
In June, I was astounding by the news the Dr. J. Craig Venter and his team succeed in creating synthetic life. History was made as this single-celled organism was born. The first species in history to be newly created by man. What does this mean for humanity? What does this mean for medicine? Did we … Read more
The Big Evening of ShaveDallas.org
The Bomb Factory Production House in Dallas was gracious enough to host the ShaveDallas.org benefit evening. Thanks to Kyle Kondas for all his hard work and all the volunteers that made the night a success. The evening raised money for the fight against cancer. I am so thankful for the opportunity to have volunteered and … Read more
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease CJD
http://www.cjdfoundation.org/cjddisease.html Prion diseases are a group of rare, invariably fatal brain disorders which occur both in humans and certain animals. They first came to public attention in the mid 1980s in the form of the BSE epidemic in the United Kingdom. BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a prion disease in cattle. Tissue from infected animals … Read more
ShaveDallas.org July 31st 7pm to 11pm at The Bomb Factory Production House
I went to the organizational meeting for ShaveDallas.org. I meant individuals dedicated to the fight against cancer which has touched my life as well with Marsh’s mom, older brother and my departed beagle Rocky. Please come out to the event. ShaveDallas will be “fighting the good fight one head at a time.” Details: http://www.shavedallas.org/ WHEN … Read more
Fatal Familial Insomnia
What is Fatal Familial Insomnia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrPC, but it can also develop spontaneously in patients without the inherited mutation in a variant called sporadic fatal insomnia (SFI). The … Read more
Hello beautiful universe.
My name is Andy. I am a network engineer making it in the multiverse, and possibly exist in an infinite number of Level I, II, and II parallel universes. I share a home with my partner Marshall in the Preston Hollow district of Dallas, Texas, United States, Northern Hemisphere, Sol System, Orion-Cygnus arm of the … Read more
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