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acupuncture
Treating Sciencephobia – Or, how to read real science without getting a nervous breakdown.
For reasons that drive scientists close to despair, many media writers get science stories wrong. They make small advances look like Great Leaps Forward, and when really big steps take place they usually miss the real story. ...
computational neuroscience
Using tetration for recursion: more movement for brain science
The problem of conceptualizing movement is one of the oldest human problems. Conceptual models are first static, and only grudgingly ach...
Cool Runnings
Seeing statistics
Imagine you are invited on or even the likely duration of the expedition. You may or may not have companions, but you are advised that it is likely everything you bring you will have to carry yourself. What would ...
art
ConneXions
From the website: Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create ...
mathematics
Will the real bifurcation diagram please stand up!
Netcraft reports as of March 2013 there are 631,521,198 active websites on the internet. In Cool Runnings, I try to filter the wheat from the chaff, the nuggets from the pebbles, in particular, to find those sites which are for...
art
Primal Chaos: Staring into the abyss
The scientific endeavor has proven not to be a wild goose chase. One of the reasons is building blocks. Electrons, protons and neutrons are the building blocks of atoms. Atoms are the building blocks of molecules. Molecules a...
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Entropy, order parameters, and complexity
The exponential growth of the internet makes the role of technical books, and especially textbooks, problematical for both the shelf-life of the information they convey and for their cost. James Sethna, Professor of Ph...
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Your own mouse brain
A few years ago I let slide a scanning electron microscope for sale on eBay for $800. I am glad I let it go. Dr. Partha Mitra and the good folks at MIT are presenting to the neuroscience community and the general public an atla...
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Is this the Great Ape to Human Gene? (from Nature Communications) Bernard Baars
A new article in Nature Communications claims to have found the gene that differentiates Great Apes from humans. Human being split from ape-like ancestors less than four million years ago. We have language, imagination, a very ...
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Tungsten
“If one figures out how to create energy from the vacuum or transmit information faster than light, it’ll surely be done by applying the theory in new and unexpected ways, rather than by using specific experimental r...
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