A confession to confabulate...

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Recently, I developed an addiction for SDN. I couldn't stop checking it every time I take a break although I knew there was nothing new. Nevertheless, I noticed that the bit of medical knowledge that I encountered during my SDN sojourn seemed to be retained in the books and volume of my overfilled cerebral cortex. So, during this quiet hour of the night out here on the West Coast, a devil suddenly came to me and said: "hey, why don't you post the one interesting thing you learned today on SDN? Maybe, it will help you remember it someday." With this thought, I hope you will all forgive me if I'm going to try to post the one interesting thing I learned today on SDN, and do so everyday till I kiss my bride. And if you are not willing to curse me, I invite you to do the same. That way, instead of just simply letting my time pass into oblivion in this vast emptiness of SDN, I will learn something - from me, and perhaps, from you too.

Ok, let this sentence be a toast to loneliness...

"The pineal gland is the most common site of calcification in the CNS" (from Road Map Neuroscience)

I find this ironic as Rene Descartes, who I dearly adored during my innocent days as an undergraduate, worshiped it and referred to it as the "seat of the soul." Is the soul really meant to be calcified? Or are we just cursed as we are all going to end up as doctors?
 
I find this ironic as Rene Descartes, who I dearly adored during my innocent days as an undergraduate, worshiped it and referred to it as the "seat of the soul." Is the soul really meant to be calcified? Or are we just cursed as we are all going to end up as doctors?

hold on.. let me set the mood.

+pity+ +pity+ +pity+
 
No idea why that was written last night. All these studying... But everything can be blamed on ADH. Need to sleep earlier.

So, one thing I learned today: based on the number of clicks on this post, there seems to be 122 people who were just wasting time on SDN.

I am not really alone.
 
i totally support you on this. interesting fact for me: TNFalpha inhibits lipoprotein lipase...this is one of the reasons it causes cachexia.
 
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