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Barbara Oakley

Barbara Oakley, PhD, a 'female Indiana Jones,' is one of the few women to hold a doctorate in systems engineering. She chronicled her adventures on Soviet fishing boats in the Bering Sea in Hair of the Dog: Tales from Aboard a Russian Trawler. She also served as a radio operator in Antarctica and rose from private to captain in the U.S. Army. Now an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, Oakley is a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience.Website
years of life: 24 November 1955 – present

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When I was in middle school, I used to walk to my grandma’s house for lunch. As I was walking, I would try to recall key ideas that I’d just learned in the class, as if rewatching an interesting film. This technique helped me tremendously to excel in my studies.
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Your brain has a lot of neurons in it. Billions, roughly the same number as the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Neurons are the building blocks of your brain. They’re small. Really small. Ten neurons are only as wide as a human hair! But they can be long—longer than your arm.
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. You’ve got billions of neurons—and your brain is growing new neurons all the time. More than that, you can make billions and billions of connections between neurons!
The fact that trails in your brain can change and grow is called neuroplasticity. (It’s pronounced “new-row-plas-TI-sity.”) This fancy word just means that your neurons are like clay you can mold. That is, your neurons can change. This is why you can change!
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