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The Brain on Trial

another fascinating article that I just liberated from Instapaper, about the implications of modern brain science for the justice system. Don't take as long as I did to read it.

brain psychology science law
february 2012 by dsankey

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Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment

This is strange and confusing. "Our natural visual experience is like watching a movie," says the lead researcher, but what they tested with was trailers. (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)

brain science tech ideas
september 2011 by dsankey

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Scientists Create First Memory Expansion for Brain
memory science
june 2011 by dsankey

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The Technium: A Different Beauty For Space

"Streamlining makes no sense in space, nor does compact packing. Instead, ease of assembly, modularity, and maximum surface area count."

space science future
june 2011 by dsankey

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Sitting All Day Is Worse For You Than You Might Think

in terms of heart disease, may be as bad as smoking; exercise doesn't help; only regular breaks do. Which, ironically, smokers take a lot.

health science
april 2011 by dsankey

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Is Sugar Toxic?

Sounds like it.

health science from instapaper
april 2011 by dsankey

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An artificial leaf and a gallon of water could generate enough energy to power your house for a day

artificial photosynthesis may have happened? A little cloudy but fascinating. (via @ajayfry)

science environment energy
march 2011 by dsankey

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Open the Future: Homesteading a Society of Mind

'"Society of Mind" - the idea that the conscious mind is an emergent process resulting from multiple independent sub-cognitive processes working in parallel'

ideas brain science ai future
february 2011 by dsankey

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Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

God damn. Next, we get our flying cars.

science tech future
january 2011 by dsankey

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Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made

because it basically didn't exist before the industrial revolution.

health science
october 2010 by dsankey

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‘Alarming’ rise in dementia comes with a crippling price tag

"If dementia were a country, it would be the world’s 18th largest economy, ranking between Turkey and Indonesia." A country I hope I never visit, but I am genetically likely to.

health science
september 2010 by dsankey

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Disputed chemical bisphenol-A found in paper receipts

in surprisingly high levels. Mother of F%$#

health science
july 2010 by dsankey

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Does Sunscreen Cause More Skin Cancer Than It Prevents?

why is life so goddamned complicated.

health science
may 2010 by dsankey

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Give My Creation... Life!

Open the Future on the Venter Institute announcement that it had created a self-replicating synthetic organism

future tech science
may 2010 by dsankey

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STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine

go very fast.

scifi science
may 2010 by dsankey

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The Secrets of Sleep

there is a type of insomnia that's deadly.

health science sleep
may 2010 by dsankey

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Bök vs. bug

Canada's most popular poet has spent a decade trying to encode poetry into the world's toughest bacteria "It raises that incredibly paranoid possibility that there might be messages embedded in the real world all around us”

writing books science ideas
april 2010 by dsankey

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Weighing the Evidence on Exercise

Recent research into exercise and weight loss indicates less strenuous workouts may be preferable. "If you want to lose weight, you don’t necessarily have to go for a long run. “Just get rid of your chair."" (Via MeFi)

health science
april 2010 by dsankey

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Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?

And our universe may sit in another universe's black hole, equations
predict.

Science space ideas scifi from iphone
april 2010 by dsankey

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Imaginary time

"If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line"

ideas science
april 2010 by dsankey

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Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain

"Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same."

health science food
march 2010 by dsankey

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Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point

"If we see runaway methane from underneath the Siberian permafrost, we could see temperatures increasing far faster than even the most pessimistic CO2-driven scenarios -- perhaps as much as 8-10° C, very much into the global catastrophe realm"

environment science future
march 2010 by dsankey

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The Evolutionary Reason for Depression

I'm not sure I buy it.

science brain psychology
march 2010 by dsankey

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Reading cuts stress levels by 68%
books science
february 2010 by dsankey

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Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time [Antikythera Mechanism]

somewhat overwritten summary of the Antikythera machine

history rome tech science
january 2010 by dsankey

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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal
art design science
november 2009 by dsankey

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Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock? - life - 19 October 2009 - New Scientist
science evolution
november 2009 by dsankey

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The Ultimate Space Porn: A 648 Megapixel Image Of Our Galaxy - Space - io9
space science photo
november 2009 by dsankey

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No eyebrows = youre less recognizable

plus, no eyebrows = creepy

psychology science
october 2009 by dsankey

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Schrödinger's Kitten: The Fruit Is A Lie

via funkaoshi

science food comedy
august 2009 by dsankey

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Humans prefer cockiness to expertise - life - 10 June 2009 - New Scientist

too true

psychology science brain sad
july 2009 by dsankey

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A Wandering Mind Heads Toward Insight - WSJ.com

"our brain may be most actively engaged when our mind is wandering and we've actually lost track of our thoughts, a new brain-scanning study suggests."

psychology science philosophy ideas
july 2009 by dsankey

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Your Brain Hates You

damn brain

science
june 2009 by dsankey

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Wired 11.08: The Super Power Issue: A User's Guide to Time Travel

from the Wired issue referenced in Lost last night

scifi science tech lost future
april 2009 by dsankey

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