The Monotillation of Traxoline

Brad Hoge at the HUNBlog wrote a very poignant post regarding the problems that can come about through lecturing and test making; in this post he makes reference to the monotillation of traxoline: in this post he floods you with jargon from an imaginary field, then quizzes you on the same.
I’ll give you an example [...]

Life’s a Business: Value-Added Proposition

One way to gain control of your own life and to empower yourself to achieve successful living is by treating your life and everything about it like a business. A lot of people, myself included, spend a large portion of their time on activities that yield no value. For example: Every time I [...]

Biochemistry makes me laugh

Usually, I try to keep things pretty informative, but when I saw this I decided I had to post it:
This is only a very small portion of all the chemical reactions happening in your cell. Click the image to see entirely too much cellular metabolism.
Don’t worry, I don’t need to learn all of this. I [...]

You can remember everything

… Almost.
More and more, just from experience and from learning about cognitive psychology, I’ve found that we can remember much more that we thought. Even seemingly lost facts, places, faces, etc. can be found.
How can we perform such amazing feats? Through associative memory. (Those of you with some psychology background may not be too surprised.) [...]

A new memory philosophy for a new year

Toward the end of last semester I’ve come across a different way of thinking about memory. It comes from an audio program from Vera Birkenbihl called Memory Optimizer.
She describes memory as construction: when you attempt to place a fact – say someone’s name – in your brain, you must first construct the idea of that [...]

The Beginnings of Personal Growth

For the longest time, I was always fascinated in how things work and the little intricacies of life’s puzzles. That fascination developed into a burning desire to learn and excel in my academic life. I’d read hundreds of books before I turned the age of 6. That continued into my adolescent [...]

Welcome Danny!

I’d like to formally introduce Danny Dang to The Gravy Way. Since he has already given his intro in the previous post, I cannot add more on that front.
However, I will use this opportunity to praise Danny. Danny Dang is an intelligent, creative, ambitious, sexually attractive man (there’s more but I don’t want to make [...]

Making an Entrance from Stage Left.

Since Josh is a little slow on the times and hasn’t bothered to introduce me, I shall introduce myself. For those that know Josh prior to being consumed with medicine then you probably know me, otherwise you’re going to read some posts by yours truly, Danny Dang.
My posts will be centered around the same [...]