Cool Runnings
bookreview
The best explanation of DSP
I submit that acronyms are a plague upon our civilization and should be banned. Some acronyms, by being daily in the media, such as HIV, are probably recognized by most people as… what? Something bad, certainly, but ho...
Cool Runnings
FracLac for ImageJ
Audrey Karperien’s lab at the School of Community Health, Faculty of Science, Charles Stuart University, Australia has given us a free fractal, multifractal and lacunarity analysis suite called FracLac, a plugin for Image J...
abnormal psych
What I did on my summer vacation: mind hacks
When faced with a huge task, a truly humungous task which stretches out over the horizon and with no sensible timely end – bailing out the ever-expanding oceans with a tea spoon is a commonly thought of example – it’s...
basal ganglia
Play the Name the Brain Game
At last, Cool Runnings brings you something you have always wanted: an interactive web site which will teach you 91 brain structures! The head-, neck-, spine- and brainchild of Brett Young, MD, at the site’s birth a neuroradi...
abnormal psych
Will what is missing solve consciousness?
In the world of scientific discovery and entrepaneurship, scholars often seem like the homeless of the institutional world. Yet in the midden of overwhelming masses of informatio...
art
Envisioning Information [1]
William Blake was a writer, artist, designer and printer of his Prophetic Books. With the exception of marketing – convincing a few to buy the New – Blake was one of the last to undertake four of the fi...
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 ...
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 ...