EXAMS AND ME : 2026

Friday, 13 November 2026

Blast From Past: BBC Radio

On November 14, 1922, the British Broadcasting Company (the precursor to the BBC) made its very first official daily radio broadcast from station 2LO, located at Marconi House on the Strand in London.

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The Starfish Story

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Empathogens

Empathogens are psychoactive substances that increase feelings of emotional closeness, empathy, affection, interpersonal trust, and social connectedness.

Mephedrone (chemically known as 4-methylmethcathinone or 4-MMC, and commonly nicknamed "meow meow" or "M-Cat") is a synthetic cathinone that functions as both a stimulant and an empathogen (entactogen).

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Platelet Satellitism

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Satellite Television Gets Wind Of Ongoing Plots

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55 Year Old Gunman Was A Doctor Identified In DC Shootings

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Thursday, 12 November 2026

Blast From The Past: Hypnotism

November 13, 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

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World Usablity Day

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Nobel Prize In Physiology/Medicine, 1976

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

1957: Investigation of Kuru in Papua New Guine

Traveled to the Eastern Highlands to study kuru, a fatal neurological epidemic affecting the Fore people (predominantly women and children), characterized by progressive cerebellar ataxia and uncontrollable shivering.

1957–1961: The Cannibalism Link

Working alongside Australian medical officer Vincent Zigas and anthropologists Shirley Lindenbaum and Robert Glasse, Gajdusek documented that kuru was transmitted through ritual endocannibalism—consuming deceased relatives' tissues (especially brain) during funeral rites.

1966: Transmission of Kuru to Chimpanzees

Following veterinary neuropathologist William Hadlow's 1959 observation that kuru pathology resembled sheep scrapie, Gajdusek and Clarence J. Gibbs Jr. injected brain tissue from kuru victims into chimpanzees. After an incubation period of nearly two years, the apes developed kuru, proving a human degenerative brain disease could be infectious.

1968: Transmission of CJD to Chimpanzees

Gajdusek and Gibbs repeated the experiment using brain tissue from a CJD patient, successfully transmitting CJD to chimpanzees and uniting kuru, CJD, and scrapie under the umbrella of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs).

1976: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Shared the Nobel Prize with Baruch S. Blumberg (who discovered the hepatitis B virus) "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases."