Ah I guess if you’re very bad at presentations, then this could be beneficial. However, scientific presentations are meant to be communicating science and making things stick to your audience (no matter if it’s scientists or children you’re presenting to). This does not fix that problem at all. For anyone thinking of using this: please watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY and maybe a talk from Jane Goodall on how to engagingly show your science. I would hate to see a lot of conference presentations be made with this generator.
Another thing that improved my personal presentation skills was noting down why I liked a presentation or why I didn’t - what specific things a person did to make it engaging. Just paying attention to that improved my presentation skills enormously
This is terrible - it is such a gift that these individuals donate their remains to students - and for the manager to take advantage of that is just terrible.
Yup. Before my mom was in hospice care, she arranged to donate to the regional medical school. I thought this was really cool and intend to do the same. One thing that was really surprising was how much easier it made the arrangements just after the terminal event, which turned out also be a nice gift.
But this kind of ghoulishness for petty profit is extremely discouraging. I'm happy to contribute to the next generation of learning and science. But if my parts are going to wind up traded & sold by a bunch of scumbags, I'd literally prefer to just get placed in the remote woods for animals to eat - go straight back to the natural cycle.
So, it seems that before donating, we now must ask what controls are in place. Ugh.
Pretty much any ecological method like this is illegal in the USA due to lobbying from the mortuary industry. They really want to get their dollar. You have to be embalmed before you can be cremated which seems like a huge waste.
But letting your body rot in the woods doesn’t really scale. Yeah a sky burial works for a small mountain village, but you would have to dedicate huge swathes of land and sustain a large carrion bird population to do that for a city without it turning into a biohazard.
There is a reason most cultures prefer to bury or burn their dead.
Enbalming is not necessary and not mandatory, and it's a myth that it is. Yes, funeral homes will try really hard to sell it, and it's one of those routine things that happens lickety-split before you can stop it, but NO, it is not required!
I've spent a long time thinking about dying when I should have been living. Whatever happens in the end, I hope that your life was lived to the best that you can, because that's the important part. Everything that comes after, well, it can suck, but the magic was in the now and what you did whilst alive.
Wishing you a very long, very healthy, very happy, very peaceful life. May we all rest in peace eventually.
Would your opinion change if the parts were taken after the students used them? These parts were already "dissected," if they still needed to be used presumably the professors would notice they were missing.
Yes??? Unless the person in question agreed for you to sell their remains for personal gain, it's pretty messed up to do so.
If one of my loved ones decided to donate their body to science, and their skull ended up being sold to some creep who got off on having a human skull, I'd be pretty irate.
yes-with-three-questions isn't a very confident answer. if you're confident, why put a question mark after your words? Is that like the internet-comments-section Bat Symbol to summon others from your tribe to back up your less-than-confident position?
As a fully fluent English speaker, I read those extra question marks as astonishment that you'd even need to ask such a question and that the answer is seemingly obvious. And I'd agree with the commenter's sentiment. There's no question in their reply.
Lol my opinion would not change. The donors consented to body donation for science (often to a specific institution with certain conditions) which is a huge kindness because medical students doing dissections is not the dream for many of us. It is completely different to have your organs etc shipped off to god knows where without your consent.
I gave up caffeine about 6 months ago now, and did it because I’ve had persistent anxiety since I was a teenager and was desperate for something to help. I had been drinking about 6 cups a day, which was a bit cultural, but also just way too much caffeine.
When I came off of it, I stopped having anxiety attacks and had a huge reduction in anxiety. To the point where I think most of my anxiety throughout my life has been due to caffeine intake.
Just something to keep in mind if you in general are a high key person and tend to drink a lot of coffee.
I gave up caffeine (tapered off to one cup, was at 6 cups a day and I’m a small human) and I almost immediately noticed my anxiety levels cut by 75%. In terms of sleep, I didn’t notice a huge difference, but I also am not good about setting a calming routine before bed. If caffeine is playing a large role in your insomnia you should feel more able to fall asleep quite quickly . Caffeine can greatly increase cortisol levels and sometimes that can take some time to come down
This makes me so angry. As an early career researcher it is so easy to make mistakes, and have errors in analysis, or in ways of thinking, that to actively go and commit fraud just really grinds my gears and is just so incredibly unethical and pushes all of science back. we need to have a friendlier environment where honest mistakes can be brought forward without shame and a culture that promotes slow science that isn’t always flashy; sometimes you’re just helping fit one small piece of the puzzle and that is ok and admirable
I used to get quite a lot of anxiety with replying to emails, which was absolute nonsense. I would procrastinate and then it would become this huge monster I needed to deal with because on top of the email now I had to apologize for my tardiness. This problem extrapolated to many parts of my life, and I had to fix it. Now, I always try to read emails, especially ones I am scared of, quickly. As you do it you will have less of a negative connotation with the whole thing. You can even give yourself a snack after or something, but getting started is key.
It may be my computer, but it seems that the link is getting too much traffic and won’t bring me to the page! For me and for everyone else clicking now, can someone give a simple synopsis of what’s happening?
Another thing that improved my personal presentation skills was noting down why I liked a presentation or why I didn’t - what specific things a person did to make it engaging. Just paying attention to that improved my presentation skills enormously