One of the highest stakes moments of my life was the time in graduate school when I was (badly) playing Donkey Kong at Pinball Pete’s Arcade, and a very, very good Donkey Kong player came over to watch me play in silence. I’d just spent six dollars worth in quarters dying repeatedly on the first […]
Interview with Dr. Cathy Goldstein
We sat down to talk with Dr. Goldstein on what she sees as the future of wearables in the sleep clinic. Enjoy! Thank you for taking the time to meet with me today! Could you take a minute to introduce yourself and say a little about what your job is? Cathy Goldstein, MD. I’m a […]
inTRO to ipRGCs ( Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells)
Rods, cones, and…ipRGCs? For almost a century and a half, it was believed that the mammalian retina only had two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. That assumption was not proven to be false until some studies in the late 1990s proved the existence of a third kind mammalian photoreceptor that differed greatly from rods […]