Separated from the California mainland throughout recent geological history, the Channel Islands provide the earliest evidence for human seafaring in the Americas. It is also the site of the discovery of the earliest paleontological evidence of humans in North America.
I was startled to find out that our understanding of this disease is still very much in its infancy. The current leading candidate is the so called tau hypothesis. Tau proteins, or rather their over expression, can cause the microtubules in the neuronal cell body to aggregate in an insoluble way messing up cellular transport. This seems like an interesting problem to work on.
Penrose (above picture) is known for his quite remarkable theories and deviations away from conventional interpretations of physical laws. One such deviation is Orch-OR theory. Perhaps an interesting read. I take a more conventional stance and see his insights as mostly non-scientific. He can sell books though.
