Amazing song I've been pretty obsessed with the last few weeks. James Blake - The Wilhelms Scream Science, Biology, Neuroscience, Brain and...
While stupidity might decrease the likelihood of survival, it may be correlated with other traits (perhaps physical appearance) that increase the...
Very cool. That light field technology is interesting: it lets you focus on any part of the photo after the photo has already been taken. From what...
Yeah, if you can believe that humans can evolve from a species as different as apes (or more precisely their/our ancestors), then it should be really...
Looks like a bunch of cars submerged in water?
I'm not completely sure what you mean by neuro-chemical algorithms, but in terms of extracting information from the brain that carries some type of...
My favorite scifi book of all time has got to be "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Verner Vinge. The universe he creates is so complex and deep, and sucks...
Very true. There aren't actually any boundaries between colors besides the arbitrary ones we impose on them. It's a full continuous spectrum of...
Ooops, I mean 180 AC! Much closer now.
Haha, if my advisor, and the institutional review board, would let me, I would have implanted myself with one of our microelectrodes long ago and...
Thanks signal!
I also don't know if English has the most words for different colors, but I agree that the reason for having so many color words is primarily because...
I think we're finding more and more these days that genes play a huge role in how long you'll live, and whether you'll be susceptible to certain...
Meaninglessness = 13 Cultural Estrangement = 14 Powerlessness = 15 Normlessness = 20 Estrangement from Work = 11 Social Isolation = 15
Thanks for the warm welcomes all. I'm here to kind of not think so seriously about science (since that seems to be what I do all day) and have some...
I get ~180BC assuming a continuous growth rate of 1.2% and 6.9billion people right now.
My girlfriend is actually in a research lab doing proteomics to detect cancer biomarkers in saliva, although she seems to be having less success than...
I actually don't think the retina would be that hard to replace with a video camera. While some processing does occur there, it's much much less...
hmm... i guess you could consider chilis herbs if you consider herbs any plant that's used to give a particular flavor or scent. hot flavored herb?
Hi all, Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a grad student in neuroscience/neuroengineering who's interested in studying and decoding language...
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