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Added by Robert O. Duncan on March 1, 2010 at 7:23am — No Comments

Lasers and Mosquitos

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Whole Genome of Ancient Human Is Decoded

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Removing Part of Skull Makes for Better Brain Scans

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Smoking 'causes brain decline'

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Lancet formally retracts 1998 paper linking vaccine and autism

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Added by Robert O. Duncan on February 5, 2010 at 8:11pm — No Comments

Documentary about making a computer brain

Bluebrain | Year One from Couple 3 Films on Vimeo.

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Trace of Thought Is Found in ‘Vegetative’ Patient

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Interesting journal

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Added by Robert O. Duncan on January 26, 2010 at 11:25am — No Comments

Science lovers are people, too : Documentary 'Whiz Kids'

Science lovers are people, too : Documentary 'Whiz Kids' asks you to forget everything you ever thought about brainiacs TED MILLS, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT January 27, 2009 7:36 AM House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently quipped, "If you want to know the agenda for this new Congress, remember four words: science, science, science and science." If we are indeed looking forward to a new generation of scientific Americans, the sneak preview of "Whiz Kids" can serve as a first volley. The film scree… Continue

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Documentary 'Whiz Kids' asks you to forget everything you ever thought about brainiacs

FILM SUMMARY: At a time when American teens lag far behind other countries in math and science, WHIZ KIDS is a coming-of-age documentary that tells the story of three remarkably different yet equally passionate 17-year-old scientists who vie to compete in the nation's oldest, most prestigious science competition. Win or lose, these ‘whiz kids’ raise questions about class, courage, personal sacrifice, success and failure, and in the process, learn as much about themselves as they do about science… Continue

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Verbal gaffs, Force Fields, and Insulin - A ScienceDaily Roundup

Three neat article appearing on the ScienceDaily website from yesterday and today. The first is about how the brain prevents verbal errors. From the article: "The researchers showed that the brain responds to such faulty utterances with a specific electrophysiological signal. It was already known that this wave occurs when making behavioural errors, such as pressing a wrong button by accident. This wave, called Error-Related Negativity, is informally known as the 'Oh-shit' wave. The brain regi… Continue

Added by Kelly Lagor on November 6, 2008 at 12:39pm — No Comments

Author Michael Crichton Dead at 66

This headline has been splashed across all major media outlets as of yesterday morning when it was announced the popular speculative fiction author lost his battle to cancer. From NPR: "The master of the "techno thriller," Michael Crichton, has died at the age of 66. He was battling cancer. Crichton was best known for scary stories of science gone wrong in popular books like The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park." They include a recent interview with the author before he died, remembering an… Continue

Added by Kelly Lagor on November 6, 2008 at 12:36pm — No Comments

More Uses for "Junk" DNA

A few weeks ago, I posted about how a team of researchers found a new function for junk DNA in en… Continue

Added by Kelly Lagor on November 5, 2008 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Thoreau: Climatologist

Earlier this year, I read a great… Continue

Added by Kelly Lagor on October 28, 2008 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Scientific American Embraces the Halloween Season

Scientific American has a number of great ghoulish stories out this week including: Taking Wing: Uncovering the Evolutionary Origins of Bats "Survey the sky at twilight on a summer’s eve, and you just might glimpse one of evolution’s most spectacular success stories: bats. With representatives on every continent except Antarctica, they are extrao… Continue

Added by Kelly Lagor on October 28, 2008 at 2:56pm — No Comments

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More fun with insects

Lasers and Mosquitos

Whole Genome of Ancient Human Is Decoded

Removing Part of Skull Makes for Better Brain Scans

Smoking 'causes brain decline'

Lancet formally retracts 1998 paper linking vaccine and autism

Documentary about making a computer brain

Trace of Thought Is Found in ‘Vegetative’ Patient

Interesting journal

Science lovers are people, too : Documentary 'Whiz Kids'

Documentary 'Whiz Kids' asks you to forget everything you ever thought about brainiacs

Verbal gaffs, Force Fields, and Insulin - A ScienceDaily Roundup

Author Michael Crichton Dead at 66

More Uses for "Junk" DNA

Thoreau: Climatologist

Scientific American Embraces the Halloween Season

Blood, Bombs and More Blood

The Thrill is (Almost) Gone

New Ancient Use for Stonehenge Found

The Science Behind the Spice

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