Johnny Mnemonic / 1995 ‧ Action/Sci-fi 

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Johnny Mnemonic - Keanu Reeves

Johnny, a data courier with an overloaded brain implant designed to securely store confidential information. The film was said to be set in 2021.

What a wide ride.

to hate odiar

Remember: Garfield hates Odie.

“How I hate the body odor on a chock-full metro in the summer.”

I hate Mondays. Odio los lunes.

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∧ = mountain = difficult = strict condition = logical AND

∨ = valley = easy = weak condition = logical OR

(from AN #1261)

Note to self, because I can never remember which is which:

Cats are destructive, so catabolism is breaking down molecules

This person I know named Ann is creative, so anabolism is building molecules

Rhyme for Learning Muscles of the Thigh

For reasons, for a fic, I decided I needed to write a mnemonic for learning all the muscles of the thigh.

Turns out, it didn't fit in the fic in the end, but maybe it'll help someone out there? Little clunky, but still!

Semitendinosus Semimembranosus Hamstrings with the biceps femoris is all a set

Vastus lateralis Vastus medialis Vastus intermedius, of the quadriceps

Then there’s rectus femoris The fourth among that group Leaving pectineus and the long sartorius

Obturator externus And graceful gracilis Join adductors brevis, longus, magnus all are thus

Common ototoxic medications

"FAV Q&A"

Furosemide (and other loop diuretics) Aminoglycosides Vancomycin Quinine Aspirin

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Die Papierne Brücke (The Paper Bridge | Ruth Beckermann | 1987)

Hello. have a good time. I like your blog and read your posts. I understand that you are a person who is interested in science and research. It's valuable to me that you try to talk about things with knowledge and information. You put time and research into the post you prepare. Thank you for being here and thank you for your interesting posts.

I like reading and studying very much. But when I want to study, my mind goes somewhere else and I get tired quickly. I have a scattered and disorganized mind. I think about trivial things and I can't put them in order. I looked for a solution on YouTube and the Internet and even asked for help from people around me, but I didn't get any results. I have a very important exam coming up that can change my life (I failed this exam last year). You are an educated person. How should a person study to get the best results (especially with my situation)?

Hello Anon thank you for this ask, it means a lot you feel that this is something I can give a good answer on. And it means a lot also you appreciate my being here, I airboat you too Anon 🥰 As someone who is neurodivergent as well (was technically diagnosed with ASD when I was 6 years old), doing things the "typical" way was never going to work. When I was in college is when I started to care a lot more about school than I did in grade school. I don't know how much of my blog you've read but I stated in a couple posts previously that according to the mbti my personality type is ENTP. A big part of this does include I tend to see the big picture side of things and I like to go "backwards" from big picture to details, not vice versa which seems to be typical in classrooms. I always found the building up to the "big picture" method used in school to be quite irritating. With this being said, I'm also a big time visual learner, cause this is a very common dominant learning style with ASD people, and perhaps ADD/ADHD as well as some other neurodivergent conditions.

What ended up helping me on exams was actually taking the diagrams from say PowerPoint slides and putting the notes together onto there via Paint after doing "PRNT SCRN" then paste/holding down CTRL + V at the same time and of course crop/cut out the excess. I believe in consolidation when it comes to notes and everything else. I ain't got the time or patience to go reading through 7 pages of notes with very little visuals involved. Why do that, which is in my opinion highly inefficient, when a few diagrams with the notes attached surrounding the diagram could be way easier to do (and not to mention can cut down the number of pages for notes from 7 to say 3)? You know, help people actually visualize how all this information comes together but then again, what do I know ha ha.

Teachers and professors alike in my opinion teach too much in such a piecemeal, boring fashion and tend to have too linear of an approach to teaching. One of my Anatomy & Physiology professors said something I won't forget when it comes to learning because it is incredibly true. The more senses that are involved in your learning experience, the more your brain retains. That's why I say to consolidate notes with diagrams. Color coding things too, heck even if these diagrams with notes can somehow be accommodated with say an audio track somehow if you do wish to do so... THIS is the ticket in my opinion regardless of whether you're neurodivergent or neurotypical.

You can also check out this Forbes article here talking about learning styles. I also LOVE mnemonic devices, 'cause my short-term memory can be pretty crappy and it seems to favor remembering things when mnemonic devices are involved (ex. Acronyms, acrostics, rhymes and alliterations, chunking, visual images, etc.). For example, when I was in Anatomy & Physiology, to remember the difference between antibodies and antigens, "But Y 1? Because it's 1 antiBodY against 1 antigen") image derived from here. As you can see below, the antibody here is shaped like a Y and the Antigen attaches to the antigen-binding fragment below and how the antigens can be a variety of shapes for say a variety of diseases or some other biological substance.

Also, don't feel bad about taking breaks. Listen to music, play games in between, stupidly scroll online for a short bit, whatever makes you happy. If you're not happy studying, you're not going to do as well in that class overall than if you're enjoying yourself. I'm not sure what you mean by your situation personally but if you mean by a neurodivergent point of view, try what I suggested above.

to do, to make hacer

‘Hacking’ & ‘life hacks’ is all about doing more with less, or doing things more efficiently and productively.

You’re an ace when you can get a lot of stuff done.

Do or do not... there is no try. Hazlo o no lo hagas, pero no lo intentes.

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"The Martyrs Mnemonic" - a project proposal

content warning: body horror briefly described

One of my hyperfixations is learning about the unusual ways that saints got martyred, but it's a little tough for me to remember them all. I might remember methods, but pairing them with names is more difficult.

Thus, I propose a "Gashlycrumb Tinies" adaptation with saints.

A is for Agatha, her chest laid bare B is for Bartholomew, skin cut and pared

Not a polished rhyming scheme; just quick, off-the-top-of-my-head. [Agatha's breasts were cut off; Bartholomew was flayed alive.]

It might be tougher to fill the alphabet, like with X and Z. And I want to keep it to the martyred saints, as the rhymes will focus on their deaths/tortures. Some might get 2 lines, like Sebastian, because I love him so.

S is for Sebastian, tied up and skewered Survived with Irene, then died in the sewers.

Or maybe each should get a couplet like that?

As for illustrations, I'll stick with public-domain illustrations from yester-year. My brain will make the connection easier with images that already exist. Plus, this is just for funsies, not for publication. (If I ever pair up with an artist and publish, they'd have to have the stomach for such ghastly scenes.)

an old Roman mnemonic (useful for you!)

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