Archives for "October, 2007"

Posted by Cheryl on 22nd October 2007

Population: Idiot

About a month ago, I asked my friend in med school why our blood appears blue. Of course, the easy answer is because it becomes deoxygenated, but that wasn’t the answer I was looking for. On a physical and molecular level, why does the blood appear blue to the human eye? She found this article [...]

Posted by Cheryl on 2nd October 2007

[wired] How To: Cheat on the Need to Sleep

Quality not quantity. No matter how much your mother tells you that you need eight hours of sleep, if you’re not tired and you can’t truly relax, your sleep time will be worthless.
Robin Lloyd of Live Science reports that at the 2006 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference, experts agreed, according psychiatry professor Daniel Kripke [...]

Posted by Cheryl on 1st October 2007

Alicia Keys – No One Sheet music

I’ve finally transcribed this song and put it into Finale. I thought it was going to be a quick two-hour scribble some notes down but it turned into a 12-hour ear-training exercise. You can find it here and it’s also on my music page. I didn’t put the lyrics onto the sheet music via Finale [...]