Sep 30, 2011
Posted at 4:00 pm by David Bradley
Jack Gallant of Berkeley and colleagues recently demonstrated how they could use a computer to reconstruct a video image presented to a subject in a functional MRI machine. The work sounds like the stuff of science fiction. It is anything but. The work actually hints at how we might develop a mind-machine interface to allow people with complete paralysis or severe disabilities to communicate their thoughts and control a computer or equipment.
The perhaps more fanciful …
Posted at 8:15 am by David Bradley
UPDATE: In the spirit of structured procrastination, I got the blog post done, important bit, but the more important bit was to add a link to the ceremony video, you can find that here.
The Ig Nobel Prizes reward scientific achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. The 2011 ceremony was filled with coffee, chemistry, opera singers and paper aeroplanes, apparently. And awards went to: Failed Doomsday Predictions, Beer-Loving Beetles, Effects …
Sep 29, 2011
Posted at 4:23 pm by David Bradley
JoVE is hoping to address scientific information inequality across the globe and has now made free subscriptions to Journal of Visualized Experiments through the HINARI initiative to developing nations in South America, Asia and Africa.
JoVE was originally developed to increase productivity in biological research, and is the only science video journal indexed in PubMed so far. The journali publishes video articles demonstrating advanced experiments performed in major laboratories (including Harvard, …
Sep 28, 2011
Posted at 9:33 pm by David Bradley
We just passed the Autumnal Equinox, so time for some illuminating words for the wintery days ahead.
There’s a world of difference between being generally grumpy and full on clinical depression. Those who are moderately miffed do not need any treatment but a swift figurative kick to the backside and a brisk walk in the countryside or on a beach …
Posted at 10:29 am by David Bradley
When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, where will you be? And, more importantly, in what position? Will mudra matter? And, how will the practice of pranayama affect your death rattle?
Come the day of the evil dead, it will be not so much “Ommmmmmmmm” as “Uuurrgggghhh”.
Be afraid, be very afraid, or maybe just do a few sun salutations and then medidate on it in Shavasana…
Sep 27, 2011
Posted at 9:35 pm by David Bradley
In his latest book, Harnessed, cognitive scientist Mark Changizi, reveals how and why language, speech and music exist, and why they are apparently uniquely human attributes that separate us, as a species, from the rest of life on Earth.
According to Changizi, the “lower” parts of the brain, the bits that recognise the sounds of nature, the scuffs, cracks and bangs, were hijacked by the “upper” parts of our brain and give us speech as we …
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