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Consciousness science, too
For those of us who use computers and the Internet in our scientific work, a revolution is occurring literally before our eyes. Often termed Science 2.0, it is lauded by friends as a set of diverse activities rapidly coalescing...
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WYSIWYG? – Not!
If anything can be said to exist, there is a philosopher prepared to debate its existence. Likewise in neuroscience, amusements become canonical, as in the website featuring the drawing above, and someone will step up to...
Cool Runnings
Putting the weird back into the hard
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon with the kind of weirdness we have come to appreciate in worlds of the Planck regime. The search for understanding in consciousness science leaves no formalism unexamined. Serious people are...
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What is that number?
Data (Latin: something given) is a quaint term the root meaning of which can have a certain irony to many scientists, for whom the act of getting it is like mining coal with bare hands. Even mathematics, once a quiet pursuit co...
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Time to change your stackbroker?
The activity now known as ‘crowdsourcing’ has been around for eons. Only the technology has changed. Long ago and far away, if you wanted to present a question to a group of people, you picked a caravan route, made your que...
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The Many-Themed Notebooks of Dr. Shalizi
Who is this person who looks like Trotsky*, writes like Nietzsche and since 1999 has gifted the neuroscience world with his opinions on almost everything of interest to neuroscience res...
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The Next Generation Brain Atlas
Brainmaps.org is the neuroscience analog, giving us the most detailed and complete set of images of the inner universe.
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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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Catch the Wavelets
If you are learning about wavelets for the first time, or if you need a good refresher, this is the site to visit first. After all, it’s #1 on Google.
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PhET Sims + Science Literacy
PhET’s mission is to increase science literacy, especially for nonscientists.