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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...
 
 
art
 

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
 

The Great Brain Experiment

A screen from The Great Brain Experiment iPhone app. The following news is from: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2013/WTP051980.htm The free app is being launched at the start of this year’s Bra...
 

 
altered states
 

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 ...
 
 
art
 

Vesalius for our age

Professional training is arduous, expensive, and frequently humiliating, but there are perks. Judges in judiciary school get discounts on gavels. Theoretical physicists need spend little on wardrobes. In medical school, I got a...
 
 
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...