So I'm watching The Truth About Cancer on PBS, and one thing that is interesting to me is that the "dumbed down" explanation of how non chemo/radiation meds work make total sense to me (the other does too, but it is scorched earth approach) and in fact, I understand beyond the dumbed down version. This is all courtesy of my brother translating his work into layman's terms. His primary focus right now is killing off the mechanism that builds blood vessels that feed the cancer cells in the tumor (via drugs,) but he's gone into other mechanisms explaining it to me.
And that's fucking cool. Biology was my weakest subject, but he's able to convey obscure stuff in such a way that a totally clueless person can understand.
You know how the repetition in some words leads you to repeat the repetition a few too many times? Like banana?
There is a throwaway in one of the Pratchett novels where a character asks how to "stop spelling banana".
Re lettuce in cooking: I'm against soups with lettuce. But if you cook peas, adding a few lettuce leaves to the bottom of the pot improves the flavor for mysterious reasons unknown to me. You use one of the types of lettuce considered "lame" i.e. iceberg, butter lettuce and such: the really bland ones. You throw away the lettuce when the peas are done, and the peas taste sweeter.
His primary focus right now is killing off the mechanism that builds blood vessels that feed the cancer cells in the tumor (via drugs,)
Anti-angiogenesis! That's part of the mechanism of action of my company's drug.
Biology was my weakest subject, but he's able to convey obscure stuff in such a way that a totally clueless person can understand.
That's great!
Anti-angiogenesis!
DH was somewhat in this general area too for his post-doc.
Now, if only he could fix our kid. Doctor's visit this morning earned us "it's just a series of colds. come back if it goes on for too long." um. ok - is "too long" a new _medical term_? and she's mostly fine for the rest of the day. Until the 6pm 104 fever hits again. ::headdesk::
Heh. My brother is in pursuit of his PhD (probably the next year or less) so who know what drug he's using (uh, unless I ask him.) He's at UAB.
Good interviewing to you, Kat!
I used
Light in August
on my AP English exam. I don't remember what I wrote but I remember being excited to use it because we'd read the HELL out of that book. And I loved it. And I remember taking the test in our auditorium with the huge old clanky radiators.
Good luck tomorrow, Kat!!!
I don't remember my AP English exam, but I do remember my AP Spanish Lit one--just because I'd had mono, and read a couple of the last few stories for Spanish class in English translation...and then wanted to use one of them for my example on the test, only realized that I wasn't sure what the character's name was in Spanish!! (It was "Big Momma" in English, so it could've been a few things) I figured if i messed that up, it'd be obvious I didn't read it in Spanish, but I couldn't think of any other examples. I dont' remember what I did, though.
