Found this on another blog: How Stuf Works. Found it very interesting so had to share it with you, enjoy. Related posts:The Secret of Wisdom Photographs Of Secret Sites The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain ..read more »

This is the trailer of the film: Just Trial and Error. In an attempt to understand consciousness, filmmaker Alex Gabbay invites sculptor Antony Gormley, eminent neuroscientists Prof Brian Butterworth and Dr Beau Lotto and internet entrepreneur Twain Luu – whose study of the ‘global brain’ makes fascinating reading – to explore its meaning and how it affects their area of work. Structured in a non-linear way, the four protagonists present insights on the human brain, global consciousness, the role of the internet, perception, the space art occupies, etc. While the subjects weave in and out of each other to create .....read more »

Excellent talk, humorous. Sex in biological evolution author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is. Related posts:Video on Ideas for coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder Neuroanthropology Wednesday Round Up #82 Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds ..read more »

Amazing stuff, reading the mind with EEG? Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications Related posts:Human Computer Interfaces Better Matched to our Brains and Body ..read more »

This months edition of MedLib’s Round, a blog carnival of “excellent blog posts in the field of medical information” is about Peer Review, Impact Factors & Conflict of Interest, Social Media, Blogs & Web 2.0 tools and Electronic Health Records and the clinical librarian. Nice read on Laika's MedLibLog Related posts:Social Media in Health and Medicine: Medlibs Round 2.7 MedLib’s Round First Edition Finding Credible Health Information Online: MedLibs Round 1.8 ..read more »

Although 50% of women receive graduate degrees in biology in the US only 27% of faculty members is female. In Europe conditions are far worse on academic careers for women, especially in the medical academic workforce. Only 1 in 10 medical clinical professors are women in the United Kingdom (UK). No female professor was employed in 6 medical schools. The newer medical schools had a better gender balance than some of the more established schools. For the lower ranks in medical academia these numbers are somewhat higher but still much lower than for men. In FTEs lecturers in 2005: 36% were women, senior .....read more »

For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how it's being shared with facilities around the world. Related posts:Sharing the Love for the Universe Photos of The Universe in 3D Online Neuroscience Photography Gallery ..read more »

Took me sometime to appreciate this talk but when having enough time and listening and watching this talk I find it very interesting. Besides interesting it's also funny and I now understand why my son doesn't wear a watch. It's mostly about personalized learning. Personalized Learning is the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum and learning support to meet the needs and aspirations of individual learners. Personalization differs from differentiation in that it affords the learner a degree of choice about what is learned, when it is learned and how it is learned. This does not mean unlimited choice, since learners will .....read more »

Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating "the optimum TEDTalk" based on user ratings. How do you rate it? Readers may have noticed I'm a fan of most of the TEDTalks especially those about science in it's broad sense and as far as these talks cover topics of interests to me. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TEDTalks covers topics as science, business, .....read more »

Very detailed images of the sun. Related posts:NASA Satellite Time Lapse Images of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Neuro Images The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images ..read more »