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What do synapses actually look like? Or macrophages, the cleanup crew of the bloodstream? Can you picture the process of metastasis, the spread of cancerous cells through the body? Science can feel pretty abstract in English: the words themselves don’t teach you much about the concepts they describe. They’re just necessary bits of jargon to be memorized. But some researchers are finding ways to translate this complex language and make it more accessible. Lorne Farovitch is a graduate student in translational biomedical sciences at the University of Rochester (a jargon-y sounding program if ever there was one), and he’s working to turn science jargon on its head. Lorne is deaf — his first language is American Sign Language, or ASL. For… Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/science/2018/12/11/18133033/science-asl-american-sign-language-jargon-communication from Blogger http://leadhackerdigital.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-deaf-researchers-are-reinventing.html The post How ...

What do synapses actually look like? Or macrophages, the cleanup crew of the bloodstream? Can you picture the process of metastasis, the spread of cancerous cells through the body? Science can feel pretty abstract in English: the words themselves don’t teach you much about the concepts they describe. They’re just necessary bits of jargon to be memorized. But some researchers are finding ways to translate this complex language and make it more accessible. Lorne Farovitch is a graduate student in translational biomedical sciences at the University of Rochester (a jargon-y sounding program if ever there was one), and he’s working to turn science jargon on its head. Lorne is deaf — his first language is American Sign Language, or ASL. For… Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/science/2018/12/11/18133033/science-asl-american-sign-language-jargon-communication from Blogger http://leadhackerdigital.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-deaf-researchers-are-reinventing.html The post How ...

What do synapses actually look like? Or macrophages, the cleanup crew of the bloodstream? Can you picture the process of metastasis, the spread of cancerous cells through the body? Science can feel pretty abstract in English: the words themselves don’t teach you much about the concepts they describe. They’re just necessary bits of jargon to be memorized. But some researchers are finding ways to translate this complex language and make it more accessible. Lorne Farovitch is a graduate student in translational biomedical sciences at the University of Rochester (a jargon-y sounding program if ever there was one), and he’s working to turn science jargon on its head. Lorne is deaf — his first language is American Sign Language, or ASL. For… Continue reading… source https://www.theverge.com/science/2018/12/11/18133033/science-asl-american-sign-language-jargon-communication from Blogger http://leadhackerdigital.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-deaf-researchers-are-reinventing.html The post How ...