The blog of a critic, historian, musician and geneticist.
A thinker and dreamer, and a wannabe chemist.
Sometimes a success, although most often a failure.
A jack of all trades, but a Master of Science.
Reba released “She Thinks His Name Was John” in 1994. On an NPR interview, she talked about how she had been touring a record label she was signing with, and some of the writers tapped her for the song. They’d been having trouble finding anyone willing to risk their career on a song about someone with AIDS, but they knew Reba would not just do it, but do it well. She said it’s still one of her favorites just because of the impact she was able to make.
the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you’re looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!
for example: here i search “human B12”
i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of “b12 levels” and “fraility syndrome”
here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it’s position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)
you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.
researchrabbit works similarly. you do need to create an account to use it, but it is completely free (as far as I know), meaning no limits to your collections/graphs.
I think about my one friend in high school, who was not technically allowed to read anything that her parents didn’t approve of. There was a special exception for things required by school, but they’d go over those at home and “correct” any bad information.
She checked out 2 books a day from the school library and read voraciously on her own and returning the books to the library at the end of the day. She’d get done work early or just skip any work time in class to read her books.
Her parents were ‘old-fashioned’ too. They didn’t think their child should be reading anything they didn’t personally approve of first.
There was a reason she never told her parents she checked out books from the school library. There was a reason none of the teachers scolded her for reading or told her parents about it during parent-teacher conferences.
They were actively preventing further abuse of a vulnerable teenager under their care.
I seem to be thinking a lot of her lately with everything, everything that is happening.
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