Archive for August, 2008
remembering something opens it to change
“Professor Nader is interested in understanding what are the neurobiological processes involved in acquiring and storing motional memories, with specific emphasis on fear. One of the main thrusts of the lab is the study of memory reconsolidation. When a memory is retrieved, it is transformed into a vulnerable state in which it can be lost, [...]
how ok was once like wtf
“The etymology of OK was masterfully explained by the distinguished Columbia University professor Allen Walker Read in a series of articles in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964. The letters, not to keep you guessing, stand for “oll korrect.” They’re the result of a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the late [...]
even better than the real thing
“The Telegraph picked up a story in the Chinese newspaper the Beijing Times which explained that filming the 29 firework “footprints” from the air would have been impossible. So visual effects artists spent a year creating a computer-graphic simulation — inserted precisely at the same time the real fireworks went off — to bedazzle home [...]
me, in time
My Dipity Dipity Timeline
my personal history via twitter and tumblr
biologists against aging, the community
“Ouroboros is a community weblog for biologists of aging. The mission of the site is to provide timely, thoughtful and scholarly commentary on developments within the field, as they are reported in the scholarly literature and at relevant conferences.”
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About « Ouroboros
Chris Patil’s weblog. He just delivered some massively clear thinking at BioBarCamp about open science, open [...]
jen van de meer on participatory green
“On the other end of the chain, the consumer has not yet been fully blended into the process, so the benefits and value of these new design approaches are less understood, and even prompt some level of suspicion. The way we go about asking these questions, and translating consumer needs back into business and design [...]
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