Posts Tagged ‘science education’
abnormal psych
Quora, when you just have to have intelligent responses
https://www.quora.com/ You are obsessed with a question. Your sleep is interrupted. When you are sleeping, you dream about the question. You have discussed it with all the usual ...
brain science
Introduction to quantum entanglement
The Leonard Susskind Lectures http://theoreticalminimum.com/ Why? Why in God’s universe do we need to consider quantum entanglement? Four reasons: 1. As a physical phenomenon, ...
artificial intelligence
Golly GOL wizard and The Game of Life
http://golly.sourceforge.net/ The Game Of Life (not the board game by Hasbro/Funskool!) is a mathematical ‘zero-player game’ – the player can’t intervene after the game has started. Technically, it’...
artificial intelligence
an eelnet made by man for the eel fighting: An introduction to network theory and practice
The title of this entry contains the penultimate line in a poem by Robert Lowell entitled Dolphin. The net that binds the confessional poet has many strands: the iron-clad spoils of his pitiless memory, the effervescence...
computational neuroscience
Using tetration for recursion: more movement for brain science
The problem of conceptualizing movement is one of the oldest human problems. Conceptual models are first static, and only grudgingly ach...
brain experiments
Good ol’ RasMol: Molecular modeling for the masses
Chemical effects on the brain are both fascinating and necessary for survival. Endogenous neuromodulators and neurotransmitters and their receptors are switches whi...
brain experiments
What chance do we have of understanding your thought, Reverend Bayes?
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes From the site: While there are a few existing online explanations of Bayes’ Theorem, my experience with trying to introduce people to Bayesian reasoning is that the e...
brain experiments
NOVA beta
Please put away your books and notes, it’s time for a quiz. Circle the answer below which best represents the date of the first computer. 1822 CE 70 BCE 1206 CE 1941 CE 2700 BCE Depending on your perspective, and wh...
Cool Runnings
From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps
. As Cool Runnings moves into its tenth month of operation, we have become clearer about the forces that are shaping it. We began wanting to ferret out neuroscience websites that were interesting, interactive and gems of pedago...
altered states
If the conscious self is an illusion – who is it that’s being fooled?
This weblog – http://www.consciousentities.com/ – authored by Peter Hankins started as an attempt to quickly dispense with the problems that others were having with consciousness – a few pithy, essays, world enlig...