Art, Neurobiology, and Mescaline: The Neuroaesthetics of Semir Zeki
“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities....” — Plato (The Symposium)
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Smiling Girlbot, Faster Speeds for Quantum Memory, Stem Cells for Better Brains and more. AcceleRoundup 4/5/2010
Well, there are a lot of guys in robotics... and they all want to see a female bot with a nice friendly smile... maybe missing something in their home life? Anyway, here it is...
Read More »Laugh Loud, Laugh Hard, Live Long
Mirth as medicine was first prescribed in the 14th century when Henri de Mondeville — the “Father of French surgery” — asked hospital visitors to give joie de vivre to his patients via jokes.
Read More »First results from major European patient survey show devastating impact of living with breakthrough cancer pain
The first results of the first European survey of cancer patients’ experience of breakthrough pain were presented today at the 6th congress of the European Federation of Chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain (EFIC).
Read More »UK scientists developing intelligent harvesting robot to save farms up to £100,000 a year
Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have developed imaging technology to be used in an intelligent harvesting machine that could minimise wastage and solve an impending labour shortage for UK farmers.
Read More »Delays in UK child brain tumor diagnosis
Significant numbers of children in the UK are suffering from preventable levels of disability, particularly blindness, and premature death because of poor diagnosis of brain tumours.
Read More »Einstein’s Brain and the Magic Flute
Einstein’s ability to chase a light beam in “thought experiments” led to the equations of General Relativity.
Read More »Sousveillance: Wearable Computing and Citizen “Undersight”
When Canadian police tasered Robert Dziekanski –- a man who had arrived in Vancouver International airport in October 2007 from Poland – it was not the surveillance cameras that helped bring the incident to light.
Read More »Ditch the GPS! Just Follow that Chimp!
Oh, those clever chimpanzees. They manage to stay front-page news with the tragic, the outrageous, and the comic.
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