Notes of Ranvier

As I've mentioned here before, I spent the last year and change working as a server at a small restaurant in my college town. I original...

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This article is being published here with permission from The Synapse . It originally appeared in the Spring 2013 edition of The Synapse  at...

It's been a while. Last summer, I became inspired to write an article about the potential benefits of the club drug, MDMA, otherwise k...

To many who read this blog, Notes of Ranvier is a title that probably evokes no thoughts of science or history. There is a backstory to the...

Hey everyone! I just wanted to write this to explain my absence. In the last few weeks I left my job at the lab and decided to move back h...

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