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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Tweaking Your Neurons
"Four shots in my Americano, please. I’ve got a presentation due tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and I haven’t started it yet. I’ll probably be up all night.”
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A fleeting image of a slide at Craig Venter's 2008 TED presentation on synthetic life captures synthetic genomics in a nutshell.
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Scientists at Stanford University have identified a gene that may play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's insulin-producing cells.
Read More »The Singularity (Summit) Is Near!
The Singularity. If you're an h+ reader, you've been sufficiently introduced to the concept (and if not, see Resources at the end of this interview).
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