Christian Kerskens

Professional and Support Staff Promotions Rally in Trinity College Dublin today. No promotions for nearly 10 years …TCD stands for Equality 😂

02.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New method reignites controversy over brain clearance during sleep Tracers injected directly into mouse brain tissue instead of the cerebrospinal fluid show that brain clearance slows during sleep and under anesthesia, according to a study published last week—but…

The brain clears less waste during sleep than during wakefulness, a new study finds. But proponents of the glymphatic system theory call the study “misleading.”

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30.05.2024 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Maiken Nedergaard’s power of disruption The award-winning researcher’s discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that’s exactly what her critics dislike.

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08.05.2024 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How the Seven Bridges of Königsberg Spawned New Math Are you smarter than an 18th-century Prussian?

Residents of Königsberg asked Leonhard Euler to figure out whether it was possible to walk a path across all 7 city bridges only once. Euler dismissed the problem as banal and non-mathematical—but then got hooked and invented the math to solve it 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

09.03.2024 15:22 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 1

This is in Dublin on the 1st of March. Summer seems to be endlessly far away.

03.03.2024 00:23 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0