Making assistive tech at @MITMechE. 2x heart surgery champ. Technically part cow.
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Quality of life: the heart of the matter ❤️
On the Grad Blog, Stephan S. writes about how his chronic disease has driven him to live more, not less, in graduate school and beyond. Thank you, @StephanStans, for sharing & inspiring us ✌️
Read: oge.mit.edu/quality-of-life-…
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I'm glad we're figuring out that creating works of art is actually easy for machines and the thing that makes humans special is loading and unloading a dishwasher
Uh oh. I'm slipping into a combined jazz/Ween/PC Music phase. Sorry in advance to anyone who rides in a car with me during this Bermuda Triangle of insufferability.
Running additional instances of MATLAB is cool but what I need is to run additional instances of researcher 😞
When I'm feeling low I return to this 2017 meta-analysis linking coffee consumption with lower risk of several cancers, neurological, metabolic, and liver conditions. There is good news out there if we choose to see it, people 😊
bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j502…
Bonus points for this 2019 meta-analysis showing coffee consumption is associated with overall lower risk of death, regardless of age, weight, smoking and drinking status, and overall caffeine content. Just...beautiful pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3105…
Got my second shot! And this time, I remembered to get the shot
ALT An excited young man in a purple face mask and Hawaiian shirt receives the Covid-19 vaccine
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Grad student @StephanStans has been accepted into the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Stansfield works with Professor Neville Hogan on investigating the biomechanics and neuroscience behind human manipulation of complex objects as well as human-robot interaction.
ALT Stephan Stansfield
Stress test and MRI this morning. I’m not allowed to have caffeine beforehand but I did take two long, perfect sniffs from the coffee bag.
From today’s reading: “Part of the challenge of coordination is to hold the skeleton together while it moves.”
I admit I’ve never worried about my skeleton falling apart but now I think I have to.
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hope everyone had a nice opening day. i spent the day re-reading the wikipedia entry for rube waddell, my favorite player of all time.
