'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts...

• I'm back From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (335 days old)

  Well this rather mysterious title simply suggests that I am planning to start writing this blog again. This time I am hoping for my notes to be more thoughtful and coherent since I don't need to only … more

• Pain (physiologically) From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (532 days old)

  Pain has been classified into several types: prickling, burning, deep or referred pain. They are all characterised by the different perceptions of the person suffering. There is however one more type … more

• Bob Dylan and his heart! ;P From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (538 days old)

  I'm only writing to confirm that revising for exams is beneficial indeed. Apart from gaining the knowledge, we find out lots of interesting information! This might sound dull, but I've never heard of … more

• Diversity among taxa From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (541 days old)

  In one of my biodiversity lectures, my lecturer showed a very easy way of remembering the order of taxa classification. I thought, I'd write about it here, so all of you who find it a bit hard to memo… more

• Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (545 days old)

  I'm not sure if many of you are familiar with the above term, but it applies to biodiversity, more specifically means that animals are capable of predicting the quality of a patch they occupy in terms… more

• How many species are there? From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (545 days old)

  Right, I'm only writing this because I find some of the methods of counting the species simply interesting. In 1982, the Erwin study took place - basically Erwin desperately wanted to find out how man… more

• Mass extinctions From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (551 days old)

  The vast majority of population is well aware of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, which gained its recognition due to the disappearance of dinosaurs. It took place around 65 mln years ago and wiped… more

• Exams! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (554 days old)

  Yes the exams are coming up, and frankly I have not got much time left to revise. Although I have been quite a good girl and did lots of revision. Revision is what I want to write about briefly. I fin… more

• Gorillas and Masai Mara in Kenya! I am BLOODY excited !!! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (558 days old)

  Well, this has not been confirmed yet, because costs a lot of money, but hopefully I will manage to do it this summer. What am I talking about? I am talking about the unbelievable opportunity of obser… more

• How much can humans learn? From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (559 days old)

  I have always been interested in biology. Nature is the most amazing feature of my live and focusing on it is actually of paramount importance for me. Biological diversity or anthropology, anything th… more

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (562 days old)

  For all biological anthropologists, osteologists or osteoarchaeologists who have not heard of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology I am providing a link where you c… more

• Different styles of writing From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (567 days old)

  While studying anthropology, I notice a lot of interesting things. One of them are different styles of writing ethnographies by different anthropologists. I am not generalising of course, but for exam… more

• The amazing Istanbul! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (570 days old)

  Well, yes as I already mentioned in one of my previous notes, I have visited the beautiful country of Turkey. More specifically, I went to Istanbul. And yes I had the most awesome time ever. I absolut… more

• Mating From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (570 days old)

  Sorry about the short notes, but I was in Turkey and didn’t have much time to write properly. I have found the last two notes quite interesting, so thought I would put them here. “A recent study f… more

• Let me hear you speak! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (579 days old)

  Right, this is probably the craziest thing I’ve heard recently. Some anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University “has used new reconstructions of Neanderthal vocal tracts to simulate the voice. He s… more

• Port Lympne :D From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (580 days old)

  Peter and I went to Port Lympne on Wednesday. I guess it was one of the spontaneous decisions, having been there before myself I told Pete all about it, and he seemed pretty amazed by the fact that yo… more

• Fairtrade - making the difference From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (585 days old)

  I’m sure you all have heard of Fairtrade products and know what this approach is about. I feel quite proud in a way of people that want to make difference in the world. We all enjoy having nights out … more

• Artificial intelligence From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (588 days old)

  Will it ever be absolutely possible to create computer systems that are entirely alike humans? This is definitely not an easy question with a straightforward answer. Maybe I should distinguish here be… more

• End of year... anthropologically... From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (593 days old)

  Well the end of the term is approaching… and what are my anthropological thoughts at this time of the academic year? Firstly, going to university is the most exciting activity you can ever imagine. Th… more

• Funny pics on humankind evolving :) From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (597 days old)

  Just a few funny pics on human evolution :D It's hilarious what people can come up with... http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog-images/humor/evolution-of-programmer.jpg http://www.indiana.edu/~… more

• The amazing brain From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (601 days old)

  I cannot believe how many things our brain is responsible for. The most amazing capability that I admire so much is our ability to learn and fluently speak languages. I went to London the other day an… more

• David Bellamy's lecture! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (602 days old)

  This was definitely one of the most enjoyable lectures I have ever attended! Yes dear readers, Prof David Bellamy himself gave an amazing lecture at my uni! How exciting is this? It was this Annual Da… more

• Clever these monkeys, aren't they? From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (606 days old)

  Language is generally perceived as unique to human beings. Furthermore, communicating in sentences is quite complicated and requires big brains. Nearly all animals make certain noises, which are ways … more

• Private note... From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (609 days old)

  Unfortunately, some of my lecturers and other members of the department of anthropology will be leaving at the end of this academic year... I know, this is what happens everywhere, people come and go,… more

• Gender differences in language From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (614 days old)

  Some researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa have found biological reasons for girls' better language abilities than boys'. Overall, girls tend to have more abstract and b… more

• On following some principles... From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (617 days old)

  This is something I have been thinking about since I started attending secondary school. Namely, following principles we all believe in/promote. I'm about to explain this in more detail... Some be… more

• Spread of yellow fever due to... global warming! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (624 days old)

  Most of us are aware of what global warming is and its consequences. Apart from all scenarios predicted by environmetalists or other scientises or even plans that some politicians put forward, there s… more

• More roads? Say welcome to malaria! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (625 days old)

  Our precious Amazon rainforest really needs looking after – this is very common knowledge. Even though we seem to realise this, lots of changes are still being made in the Amazon and apart from the lo… more

• Now let me just have a look at your eyes... I see... 1986!!!! From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (626 days old)

  This is going to sound pretty hilarious! I found this article that talks about how scientists can tell date of birth by looking into eyes. But of course not the exact date, but apparently what year th… more

• How anthropology influences my approaches... From Justina86 in 'Sailing away from the safe harbour' thoughts... (630 days old)

  Before joining the department of anthropology, I didn't use to pay that much attention to what was going around... culturally speaking of course. I have been travelling all my life and although always… more

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