science + mind
- Michael Chorost: Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again
- Treating Parkinson’s and other brain diseases could be just the beginning. Optogenetics has amazing potential, not just for sending information into the brain but also for extracting it.
- 2009-12-11 to bestof, brain, communication, genetics, medicine, mind, nerves, science by soobrosa
- Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
- "Tricks work only because magicians know, at an intuitive level, how we look at the world," says Macknik, lead author of the paper. "Even when we know we're going to be tricked, we still can't see it, which suggests that magicians are fooling the min
- 2009-05-04 to bestof, brain, human, magic, mind, mystery, neuroscience, perception, portrait, science, tricks by bagoly
- Jerome Groopman: That Buzzing Sound
- The mystery of tinnitus.
- 2009-03-08 to health, healthcare, hearing, hearing loss, mind, science by soobrosa
- Celeste Biever: Inside the mind of an autistic savant
- Autistic savant Daniel Tammet shot to fame when he set a European record for the number of digits of pi he recited from memory (22,514). For afters, he learned Icelandic in a week.
- 2009-02-08 to autism, bestof, mind, portrait, science by soobrosa
- Don't just stand there, think
- New research suggests that we think not just with our brains, but with our bodies
- 2008-01-14 to bestof, mind, psychology, science by metatron
- The Listener
- As Oliver Sacks observes the mind through music, his belief in a science of empathy takes on new dimension.
- 2007-11-09 to bestof, brain, mind, music, psychology, science by bagoly
- Jerome Groopman: Silent Minds
- What scanning techniques are revealing about vegetative patients.
- 2007-10-16 to brain, cognition, consciousness, health, mind, science by soobrosa
- Henry Fountain: For Memory to Last, Cats Need to Do, Not Just See
- Cats may live in their own world, but they have to survive in this one.
- 2007-09-10 to cat, mind, science by soobrosa
- Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t
- A bevy of experiments in recent years suggest that the conscious mind is like a monkey riding a tiger of subconscious decisions and actions in progress, frantically making up stories about being in control.
- 2007-01-03 to bestof, mind, science by metatron
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