Strawberries and Cream and all things SW19

It's that time of the year once more, where all the stars of the tennis world descend on SW19 for the biggest grass court tournament of the year. Andy Murray, the British Favorite will be bidding to win his third grand slam. Andy, well known for showing his emotions on court had to work hard to overcome his on-court frustration to start winning more and more matches - in particular, the high pressure grand slam finals.
Unfortunately, he lost in the 2012 Wimbledon Final to Roger Federer, some see this as his turning point. In numerous interviews he said that in a way he'd learnt to accept that he may never win a Grand Slam. This allowed him to relieve himself of the huge amount of pressure he faced - particularly in front of a home crowd. With the help of his then coach- Ivan Lendl, he started seeing a sports psychologist. In a way, this was venturing into uncharted territory seeing any kind of psychologist was seen as a sign of mental weakness. Sports psychologists help athletes optimise their performance, channeling any emotions into purely getting the job done, all with techniques like positive self-talk and also discussing any other issues Andy or any other athlete may be facing which could all impact on his performance.
However Andy does at Wimbledon he seems to have undergone a complete change since he got married in April this year, he's won all but one match - recently he's just won Queen's, got to the semis of the French Open, and won 2 clay court titles. However far he gets at Wimbledon, surely this should give him bags of confidence going into his first round match - against Kukushkin of Russia.

Elsewhere in Wimbledon this year we have - 

Aljaz Bedene vs Stepanek 

Liam Broady vs Matosevic (AUS)

James Ward vs Ferrer (ESP)

Kyle Edmund vs Dolgopolov (UKR)

Klein vs Seppi

Heather Watson vs Caroline Garcia (FR)

Laura Robson (her second competitive match after a 17 month injury break) vs Rodina

Jo Konta vs Sharapova

Naomi Broady vs Duque-Marino

Good luck to all the Brits playing at Wimbledon next week! :)

The Nervous System

Most people are very familiar with the term "nervous system", but why have we evolved to have one? The overall job of the nervous system is to coordinate what we're doing. In fact, unicellular (single celled) organisms are thought of as the basics of our cells - 'bags' of chemicals. Obviously, we're not single celled and we have more than 3.7x10^23 cells and our body has to coordinate every one of them and assign them specific jobs. And that's what the job of the nervous system falls to - along with the endocrine system it produces hormones which act as biological catalysts. This leads to every cell having a completely different job.
Scientists split up the nervous system into two parts, the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Through years and years of observations scientists were able to determine that the spinal cord branches out into nerves across the body which they later called the peripheral nervous system, and to differentiate the two parts, named the spinal cord and brain collectively as the central nervous system.