Interesting visualization, am I the only one enjoying them? Also for the looks of it. Artist Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data -- and at times vast numbers of people -- and weaves them into stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to landscapes of cell phone data, from a Johnny Cash video assembled from crowd-sourced drawings to the "Wilderness Downtown" video that customizes for the user, his works brilliantly explore how modern technology can make us more human. Related posts: Visualizing Data Visualizing the medical data explosion A New Way to Visualize and Interact with Scientific Data ..read more »

This is what happens when you ask your audience to turn of their mobiles. Made by Improv Everywhere, a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, For our latest mission, a musical breaks out at the GEL Conference in New York. A speaker is suddenly interrupted by a man who refuses to turn off his cell phone. This is the fourth in our series of Spontaneous Musical projects. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below. Related posts: NYT battle with .....read more »

Alimation - Annecy Festival 2011 from Alexandre DUBOSC on Vimeo. Alexandre Dubosc's short film "Alimation" shows a series of ingenious and extremely appetizing animations made with food Thanks BoingBoingRelated posts: Medical Animation by Hybrid Deep Brain Stimulation Animation Elderly couple of 62 years married plays piano ..read more »

Myths like: We use only 10 percent of our brains. “Flashbulb memories” are precise, detailed and persistent. It’s all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70). Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. When it comes to this complex, mysterious, fascinating organ, what do—and don’t—we know? Read more about these myths on Smithsonian,comRelated posts: 2 Myths About the Brain 10 myths about training your brain demistified Brain Power: Brain Only Computer Interface ..read more »

The Rap Guide to Evolution is a hip-hop exploration of modern biology, created by Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman. The project owes its origins to the geneticist Dr. Mark Pallen, who specially requested “a rap version of the Origin of Species” for Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday in 2009. Baba went on to perform the show to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway in New York. The music videos and teaching resources on this site were developed with the support of the Wellcome Trust, in partnership with London’s SPL Productions. Find out more, more videos on this site. Thanks ScopeRelated .....read more »

A large iPad like table is used by students to learn human anatomy. Together with other forms of anatomy education a real new way of improving understanding of complicated human anatomy for students. You can watch a video about this computer and examples of it's use on the Stanford Med School site. The many ways of using this new technique is also described in this blogpost on Stanford Med School In the ongoing search for how best to explore and learn about the anatomy of the human body, Silicon Valley engineers have now joined a long list of doctors, artists, photographers .....read more »

Interesting talk, easy to follow. Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he's managed to cure mice of analogs of PTSD and certain forms of blindness. Related posts: Earth Hour, Your Light Switch is Your Vote Were do Mirror Neurons Come From? About Mirror Neurons ..read more »

We have discussed the term empathy several times. The most clarifying definition of empathy is based on viewing it as a process. This process of empathy consists of the following stages. The patient expresses feelings by way of verbal and non-verbal communication. Patients are not always aware of these expressions. The doctor also notices these emotions in himself more or less voluntary, more or less conscious. He or she coming aware of these feelings usually comes after the fact (affective empathy). Realizing these feelings as being from the patient is the cognitive empathy. Together with everything the doctor knows about the patient as .....read more »

Some state that with evidence based medicine, increasing technical knowledge, technical procedures and technical possibilities the empathy has vanished from the patient doctor interaction or at least was minimized. Medicine has moved from the humanities towards science. Is another transformation taking place. Is medicine again moving towards the humanities, is empathy again an important feature for a physician? Is the focus on technique shifting towards empathy during medical education? Or are doctors loosing empathy after medical education because they have to become clerks and mechanics due to increasing bureaucracy. Is empathy rehabilitated in the medical curricula? More questions than answers. Moreover, .....read more »

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