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Walter Freeman and the Order of William James

The Society for Mind Brain Sciences aims to quicken public and scientific interest in consciousness science. It is worth recalling that in the United States consciousness science was among the earliest topics considered in the ...
 
 
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...
 

 
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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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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...
 
 
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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...
 

 
brain science
 

We never know what we are talking about

Bertrand Russell said it. But when we try to talk about some things in neuroscience including consciousness science, mathematics creeps in on little cat feet. One of those things is patterns. Cook up a big ol’ heap o’ data,...
 
 
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Clear, Lucid, Intuitive Teaching: BetterExplained

BetterExplained.com is in the tradition of “questions you always wanted to ask your math professor but were too scared to ask.” Clarifications and insights abound in a wide range of topics: Bayes Theorem, combinations and p...
 
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"Build an Atom with PhET Sims"
"Build an Atom with PhET Sims"
"Build an Atom with PhET Sims"

PhET Sims + Science Literacy

PhET’s mission is to increase science literacy, especially for nonscientists.

 
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"Math Over Flow Name"
"Math Over Flow Name"
"Math Over Flow Name"

Math Overflow

Devoted to professional mathematicians, love of mathematics and a genuine question are the only real requirements to use and enjoy this marvelous site.