The aging brain
The aging brain: Why getting older just might be awesome By *Amanda Enayati,* Special to CNN June 19, 2012 -- Updated 1511 GMT (2311 HKT) [image: You can seek out new environments that support your insights and creativity, experts say.]You can seek out new environments that support your insights and creativity, experts say. *STORY HIGHLIGHTS* - Research details a number of ways in which the brain actually improves with age - Older people have a greater capacity for empathy because empathy is learned - An aging brain can better tease out patterns and see the big picture ... mais »
Freud Comic
Freud’s Life and Legacy, in a Comic*by Maria Popova* *“You have to listen carefully. The unconscious mind is crafty.”* While Freud may have engineered his own myth and many of his theories may have been disputed in the decades since his heyday, he remains one of the most influential figures in the history of psychiatry and psychology. And yet for many, Freud is more metaphor than man and his name summons only a vague idea of his work — “something to do with penises,” our marginally informed collective conscience might whisper — rather than a true understanding of just how profoundly h... mais »
2013 - World Population
[image: World Population Data Sheet 2013] Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually.
Benzo 'Boost'
Killing Pain: Benzo 'Boost' Can Be Deadly Published: Feb 25, 2014 | Updated: Feb 26, 2014 By John Fauber, Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today; Kristina Fiore , Staff Writer, MedPage Today NEJM, 1967. Visit our Tranquilizer Nation timeline to see three decades of tranquilizer ads targeting women and various diseases. Only Michael Moore knew the combination to the safe in his bedroom closet. He had locked up his prescriptions for chronic pain and insomnia so his two young children could not get into them. As it turned out, it was Moore, 49, who needed the protection. O... mais »
500 phases of matter
The 500 phases of matter: New system successfully classifies symmetry-protected phases Date: December 21, 2012 Source: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Artist's impression of a string-net of light and electrons. String-nets are a theoretical kind of topologically ordered matter. *Credit: Xiao-Gang Wen/ Perimeter Institute* Forget solid, liquid, and gas: there are in fact more than 500 phases of matter. In a major paper in a recent issue of *Science*, Perimeter Faculty member Xiao-Gang Wen reveals a modern reclassification of all of them. Condensed matter physics -- the bran... mais »
new state of matter
New state of matter seen on cheapBy Roland PeaseBBC Radio Science Unit [image: Bubbles]Flashes of light can be generated by collapsing bubbles in a fluid Students and enthusiasts attending a recording for BBC Radio 4 have probably seen a new state of matter only recently discovered, an expert says. The state of matter is a plasma like those in conventional nuclear fusion tests, but at higher densities. And far from needing expensive apparatus, the conditions can be achieved in a simple glass tube containing a routine liquid. The professor behind the demonstration says it can be achieve... mais »
Brain's language
[image: When neurons in the brain of a live mouse, top, are active, they flash brightly. Dr. Clay Reid, above left, and colleagues at the Allen Institute for Brain Science are working with mice to better understand the human mind. Above center, areas of the mouse cortex related to vision, and connected to other parts involving visual perception.] The Brain’s Inner Language By JAMES GORMANFEB. 24, 2014 *http://nyti.ms/1cJhrvY* VIDEO|2:25 Credit Probing the Parliament of Neurons Clay Reid and colleagues are going deep into the mouse brain to decipher the conversations and decisio... mais »
mitochondrial manipulation technologies
Genetically Modified Babies By MARCY DARNOVSKYFEB. 23, 2014 Launch media viewer PhotoCreditShannon Freshwater BERKELEY, CALIF. — AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION IS SET TO BEGIN TWO DAYS OF MEETINGS TOMORROW TO CONSIDER RADICAL BIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES THAT, IF SUCCESSFUL, WOULD PRODUCE G MODIFIED HUMAN BEINGS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STEP. THESE TECHNIQUES WOULD CHANGE EVERY CELL IN THE BODIES OF CHILDREN BORN AS A RESULT OF THEIR USE, AND THESE ALTERATIONS WOULD BE PASSED DOWN TO FUTURE GENERATIONS Continue reading the main storyShare This Page
Supernova explosion
NASA's NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode February 19, 2014 [image: First map of radioactivity in a supernova remnant] This is the first map of radioactivity in a supernova remnant, the blown-out bits and pieces of a massive star that exploded. The blue color shows radioactive material mapped in high-energy X-rays using NuSTAR. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXC/SAO Full image and caption [image: NuSTAR is complementing previous observations of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant] NuSTAR is complementing previous observations of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant (red and gre... mais »
Big-Bang (1964)
A pigeon trap, on view at the Air and Space Museum, used by Nobel Prize winners Penzias and Wilson to remove the birds roosting in the radio antenna's large horn. (NASM/SI, Loan from Robert Wilson) How Two Pigeons Helped Scientists Confirm the Big Bang TheoryFor decades, astronomers had debated how the universe began. Then, in 1964, they had their "Eureka!" moment By Claudia Dreifus smithsonianmag.com February 19, 2014 “We started out seeking a halo around the Milky Way and we found something else,” notes Dr. Wilson. “When an experiment goes wrong, it’s usually the best thing. ... mais »
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