Posts Tagged ‘biology’
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The inner life of the cell
In Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, he tells the story of how one Poggio Bracciolini, a humanist bibliophile, in 1471 discovered in Fulda Abbey in central Germany an object which had been allowed ...
brain experiments
“Beauty too rich for use…”
When literate people quote The Bard you can bet dollars to donuts they are limning Shakespeare. In the quixotic world of neuroscience, it’s different. Here, The Bard is G. Bard Ermentrout, University Professor of Mathe...
artificial intelligence
Read All about It: Neuroscience questions answered
Anyone comparing the title of today’s blog and the website memorialized may experience cognitive dissonance. Or has the editor succumbed completely to physics fetishism? In point of fact, this venerable website contain...
abnormal psych
Technology, Entertainment, Design Talks
TED Talks Has anyone not heard of TED Talks? Apparently, because I still often find people who respond to mention of TED Talks in a way that reminds me of the old joke about medical students: Why do medical students have hunche...
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Love a gradient
A chorus of voices through millennia: Heaven’s breath, moving rhythmically, puts life into things. – Chinese (?) The one, the few, and the many. – Aristotle Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your l...
brain imaging
Walter J. Freeman: How Brains Generate Meaning
Walter J. Freeman III, MD, PhD is an American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher who has conducted pioneering research in how brains generate meaning. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology and Member, Grad...
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Educating Consciousness
he scientific study of consciousness is now a legitimate endeavor at some universities and research centers around the world. Among those in the know, excitement is intense. We are privileged to study an essential aspect of the...
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Breakthrough: A brain measure of consciousness?
Effective connectivity refers to a causal link between two or more brain areas, as if signal traffic can now flow over a highway system.
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Serendipitous Discovery
Too much "learning" nowadays is focused on rote memorization of received wisdom. The environment is so controlled it all but eliminates the possibility of serendipitous discovery and equally serendipitous insight into the conne...
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Liberation Biology
Imagine raising scientists (and others) to actually know they can think originally beyond the boundaries of what is known!
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