Publication List

Jade Q. Wang, Trent Nicol, Erika Skoe, Mikko Sams, Nina Kraus. Emotion and the Auditory Brainstem Response to Speech. Neuroscience Letters, 469(3):319-23, Jan 2010.

Jade Q. Wang, Trent Nicol, Erika Skoe, Mikko Sams, Nina Kraus. Emotion Modulates Early Auditory Response to Speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(11):2121–2128, 2009.

Heng Zhao, Jade Q. Wang, Takayoshi Shimohata, Guohua Sun, Midori A. Yenari, Robert M. Sapolsky, Gary K. Steinberg. Conditions of protection by hypothermia and effects on apoptotic pathways in a model of permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion. Journal of Neurosurgery. 107(3), Sept 2007.

Heng Zhao, Takayoshi Shimohata, Jade Q. Wang, Guohua Sun, David W. Schaal, Robert M. Sapolsky, Gary K. Steinberg. Hypothermia Blocks Nuclear ß-catenin Translocation Downstream of glycogen synthase kinase 3-ß in Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Rats. Journal of Neurosurgery. 58(2):400-401, Feb 2006.

Heng Zhao, Takayoshi Shimohata, Jade Q. Wang, Guohua Sun, David W. Schaal, Robert M. Sapolsky, Gary K. Steinberg. Akt contributes to neuroprotection of hypothermia against cerebral ischemia in rats. Journal of Neuroscience. 2005 Oct 19;25(42):9794-806.

And one more in the oven.  Stay tuned.

total insanity

is the reason I have not been vocal lately. And none of those sources of insanity are up for public consumption. (too bad?) except I'll tell you that all current sources of complete occupation of my waking hours (aside from the inability to fall asleep properly), are all good things.

Current music: X-structure - The Saviour (draft?)

behold, the mustard squeeze bottle centrifuge

Do you ever wish your kitchen had a centrifuge so that the mustard squeeze bottle would actually dispense mustard?

Yes, I ran into this problem when making a sandwich. The solution: a piece of string.

The basic construction involves 2 tight loops (one around the neck of the bottle, another around the 'waist' or skinnier portion in the middle), and a handle (attached to both loops so it stays centered when you spin it).

You can use whatever topology suits you best, but my method used one continuous piece of string, somewhat similar to tying a ribbon around a gift box. By similar, I mean ribbon^2(giftbox) where giftbox = mustard bottle.

Also discovered that the two red wires in my thermostat were switched, but that it didn't matter for heating, only for cooling. I'm on a roll.

Current music: Don't worry be happy.

live, from the frequency domain

F*** you Neuroscan. For being clunky and ugly. (Why can't you be cute like a Mac?) For your idiotic power-of-two requirement of number of points and not zero-padding for me which any sane and forward-looking developer would have put in. The only reason I'm not doing this in MATLAB is because MATLAB runs out of memory when dealing with files this large. =

Current music: Nomoredolls - Electric Sheep

Google Reader Feed Streams

Yes, indeed, it's possible to create google reader pages for different tags. It's like me editing a personalized magazine of what's out there.

So, here we are.

Jade's science feed (journal articles, news/blog clippings)

Jade's music feed (an assortment of free music downloads)

Jade's eco feed (green-ness)

Current music: Boxing Fox - Do you live?

partly cloudy? partly sunny?

The chickpea sprouts in the garden have all been consumed by small furry creatures. My mother left for China. My eyes hurt from reading ~60 pages of technical stuff.

So, yes, it looks like it's seriously raining. And so, Coco can't be walked.

But Z just told me Eclipse has a plugin for Matlab and it will make me more efficient with coding. And subversion for version control. Less headache. More awesomeness.

Current music: Thievery Corporation - Amerimacka

Sigh

Wow, my mother is very whiny when she doesn't get to level up in Wii Tanks...

teatime between bits of MATLAB coding...

Mother: I worry for those birds. That's not a stable branch and their workmanship on that nest is rather shoddy.

Me: I don't think there's much you can do to help. (Pause.) Oh, you meant you're going to super-glue the structure so it doesn't fall...

Mother: But they're likely to detach in the breeze if I don't! Or I could build them another nest...

Current music: Modern Music - Sixteen Going On Seventeen

I can shine even in the darkness

Current music: Lamb - Gabriel

thoughts about H1N1

If the low death rate from H1N1 in the U.S. is due to superior medical facilities and early detection, then the Third World is in for some serious decimation. Can you imagine what might happen if H1N1 exploded in Sub-Saharan Africa? There would be few accurate numbers on the rate of spread, and there would be little or no access to the effective anti-virals.

Sure, you hear lots of people talk about how hundreds of people die from seasonal epidemics every year, and in this case, look how low the death rate is if patients are found early and given adequate treatment. That's because these people are assuming the entire planet looks exactly like the U.S., when they are much more likely to just die off in such large numbers, no monument can hold their names. The only way to stop from decimating the Third World is to slow the spread of H1N1 enough such that we get a vaccine in production before it's out there.

Current music: The Magnetic Fields - Washington, D.C.

hanging by threads of palest silver

From spring 2009

From spring 2009

Current music: Garbage - Stroke of Luck

Chirp-stream Digest

Swine Flu Tweets:

• real time updates: http://healthmap.org/swineflu
• IL has a disproportionately high infection rate for its population. cause for concern? http://cdc.gov/h1n1flu/upda... #swineflu
• the green line is the U.S. -- something isn't right today: http://bit.ly/LB3tU #swineflu
• viral origins: H1N1-erine http://bit.ly/x1wAB
• http://twitpic.com/4fmg6 - at brk

Berkshire Tweets:

• It dawns on me that this is investment as a tool for intelligently planned production on the planet. #brk
• Try drinking every time charlie says "I've got nothing to add." #brk
• "that was slick, striking up a conversation with the guys we were cutting in front of..." -ar #brk
• Best seats possible. Sprinting ability is useful. Yeehaw!
• somalian cab driver named den. what's he doing in omaha?
• http://twitpic.com/4ctvs - meta-image
• http://twitpic.com/4crsf - Omaha old marketplace
• http://twitpic.com/4cqkt - seen in omaha -- friends don't let friends...
• http://twitpic.com/4c5gd - is this how you imagine Omaha?

Amusement, Cbae and TTL:

• [RT from @TimTL] My neighborhood is burning! This is my parent's house at minute 1:05: http://tinyurl.com/cnun52
• http://bit.ly/IGET6 organization. go veggie.
• video games that never made it to the usa http://img8.imageshack.us/i...
• this just in: our roomie @TimTL featured in one of China's biggest newspapers http://bit.ly/pZMc5
• [via @anthonyha] miss those days & fail to see what she finds morally objectionable?! http://bit.ly/VvQjG the kid *chose* to draw into cbae.
• [via @TimTL] takes guts to edit a vid, change the meaning, broadcast it & blame the victim for it being incomplete http://tinyurl.com/cyhuh2

Current music: Vienna Teng - Stray Italian Greyhound

non-random linkdump: on memory

Every damn morning, swamp gas from a weather balloon ... reflects the light from Venus. Does what is actually possible/feasible change that what we perceive to be beautiful? Does it change how we choose to live?

This kind of thinking completely misses the point of having experiences, "good" or "bad". Have a bad day? Don't analyze, search one's soul or talk about it; just push ERASE. Why bother doing the harder task of learning from painful experiences when this option is available?

And suppose there were a way to find your way once you're already lost? You're lost in the woods -- we all are, even the captain. The difference is he likes it that way.



Current music: BT - Memories In A Sea Of Forgetfulness

correction/update. ahem.

So an observant reader pointed out something about the earlier post on compensation for musicians and the RIAA. Apparently there is much variation in how much artists are compensated, and when you're signed on with a major label, sales on iTunes compensate you the same in terms of royalties as with the sale of a CD.

Current music: Recoil - Red River Cargo

yes, reading everything in the same place

Google Reader is like a meta-blog. With total seriousness. Optimal speed of downloading content to brain: firehose.

Current music: Guster - Fa Fa

Objects in Space

There needs to be a non-governmental international entity for monitoring our friendly skies, tracking objects in space. This is why. All nations with space programs or who have satellites up there should subscribe to this service, provided by a responsible provider with lots of computing power.

Like Google. :P

Current music: Billy Cobham - Stratus

believe it, river.

Now available in North America. $3.49 at Jerry's. Unfortunately, the dark chocolate variety has not been observed.

Current music: Garbage - Vow

the art of statecraft

As J once said, statecraft is foremost a matter of defining one's goals/objectives and then setting out to achieve them. There are important life lessons in the seminar I just went to (about women negotiating for positions in academia or industry). The 'I'm ridiculously stellar so I don't need statecraft' outlook is just as harmful as 'If I'm good, I'll be rewarded without having to ask for a raise/promotion/benefit.' You have to know what your objectives are, and remember them when you're lost in the woods.

Current music: Elysian Fields - Set the Grass on Fire

actual conversation

Mom: Coco! Did you shower yet?
Me: (long pause) You were asking him or me?
Mom: No, I was asking you. Why would I ask him?
(exchange glance. pause.)
Mom: I know... It's because I'm Dual Core.

form is emptiness, emptiness form

At the close of the 2621st anniversary of the birth of Thales of Miletus, it seems timely to sit back and reflect that our universe contains stuff, and that in particular, it isn't empty.

stand on the bridge

and observe: the river is motionless -- it is the bridge that moves.

Current music: Blue Foundation - Distant Dreams

like squeezing toothpaste

sometimes writing a discussion section is like getting the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube -- you know it's there, just beneath the surface -- if you just press a little harder against the convex surface or pull those shoulders back to focus onto the brush before it slips back into its container.

Current music: Poe - Hello

Tr16-244

Astronomers imaged Tr16-244, along with neighbor star WR 25, as part of a series of studies on star-forming nebulae. They are rare and powerful stars that live relatively short lives, burning through their hydrogen fuel faster than most stars. They radiate brilliantly in ultraviolet wavelengths and appear blue in color. Newly released images from Hubble show Tr16-244 is made up of three stars, with two stars orbiting so closely around each other that they appeared as a single point of light in previous images.

Current music: Etro Anime - Diablo

not a religion, just a technique

laugh awhile, I can make your heart feel



Current music: PJ Harvey - The Dancer

stand back, try science

Next episode is SfN highlights. Awesomeness.

this one's for you.

And this one's for your mix. I have not forgotten.

Current music: Magnetic Fields - How F***ing Romantic

trajectory. how often does 11.04.08 come about?

T - 30 hours 40 min. until the Grant Park rally.

History hangs in superposition. No wait, Psi does not depend on t!

Current music: The Appleseed Cast - Storms

you can't fall down the stairs two times the same way