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Cool Runnings
 

From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps

. As Cool Runnings moves into its tenth month of operation, we have become clearer about the forces that are shaping it. We began wanting to ferret out neuroscience websites that were interesting, interactive and gems of pedago...
 
 
books
 

DIYBookScanner

And now for something completely different. What is it that burdens academic scholars (and researchers too, may Zeus bless them) more than anything else? Is it the quasi-mystical search for tenure? No. Paltry college salaries? ...
 
 
altered states
 

If the conscious self is an illusion – who is it that’s being fooled?

This weblog – http://www.consciousentities.com/ – authored by Peter Hankins started as an attempt to quickly dispense with the problems that others were having with consciousness – a few pithy, essays, world enlig...
 

 
bookreview
 

The best explanation of DSP

  I submit that acronyms are a plague upon our civilization and should be banned. Some acronyms, by being daily in the media, such as HIV, are probably recognized by most people as… what? Something bad, certainly, but ho...
 
 
Cool Runnings
 

FracLac for ImageJ

Audrey Karperien’s lab at  the School of Community Health, Faculty of Science, Charles Stuart University, Australia has given us a free fractal, multifractal and lacunarity analysis suite called FracLac, a plugin for Image J...
 
 
abnormal psych
 

HUMOR – Everything you didn’t know about the brain – HUMOR

  Dr. John Cleese is a world-famous British neuroscientist whose work with Claude Bernard and Ivan Pavlov first brought him to the attention of scientists on the world stage. (This is completely false.) During the 20th cen...
 

 
abnormal psych
 

What I did on my summer vacation: mind hacks

When faced with a huge task, a truly humungous task which stretches out over the horizon and with no sensible timely end – bailing out the ever-expanding oceans with a tea spoon is a commonly thought of example – it’s...
 
 
basal ganglia
 

Play the Name the Brain Game

At last, Cool Runnings brings you something you have always wanted: an interactive web site which will teach you 91 brain structures! The head-, neck-, spine- and brainchild of Brett Young, MD, at the site’s birth a neuroradi...
 
 
abnormal psych
 

Will what is missing solve consciousness?

              In the world of scientific discovery and entrepaneurship, scholars often seem like the homeless of the institutional world. Yet in the midden of overwhelming masses of informatio...
 

 
art
 

Envisioning Information [1]

      William Blake was a writer, artist, designer and printer of his Prophetic Books. With the exception of marketing – convincing a few to buy the New – Blake was one of the last to undertake four of the fi...