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• Enhancing Social Ability with Brain Stimulation.

  

  Social information is thought to be processed by a specific set of neural circuits often referred to as the ‘social brain’ The figure shows localization in huma... Read more

  The 13 December 2012 by   Deric Bownds
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• California Academy of Sciences

  

  Last weekend Fermin and I went down to the city to visit the California Academy of Sciences. Golden Gate Park is my favorite place in the entire city (and next... Read more

  The 13 December 2012 by   A Mused Blog
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• NASA Presents: The Black Marble

  

  Google Maps and NASA have just published a new global view and animation of Earth’s city lights. It is a composite assembled from data acquired by a satellite... Read more

  The 12 December 2012 by   Luphil
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• Living Without Irony?

  I've been wanting to pass on this marvelous essay by Christy Wampole, which bemoans the ironic sensibility that pervades our culture, and wonders whether there... Read more

  The 11 December 2012 by   Deric Bownds
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• IBM Manufactures Light-based ‘nanophotonic’ Chips

  

  IBM manufactures the first 90nm silicon-based optical processing modules. By doing so, they’ve taken a step toward computer chips that use photons instead of... Read more

  The 10 December 2012 by   Ningauble
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• Strokes Only Happen To Older People—Don’t They?

  

  Meth is a risk factor for hemorrhagic stroke. When a stroke happens to anyone under the age of 55, a major suspect is drugs, specifically the... Read more

  The 09 December 2012 by   Dirkh
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• Title in Evolution Quiz

  

  For those unawares (prolly all), I post these titles in evolution i) as a reminder to myself when I skim the numerous eTOCs that I get in my inbox every week,... Read more

  The 09 December 2012 by   Bjornostman
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• Complexity is the Narrowing of Possibilities

  

  Complexity is often described as a situation where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. While this description is true on the surface, it actually... Read more

  The 06 December 2012 by   Ccc1685
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• Electron Microscope Zooms In: Finds Life On Life On Life

  

  image credit What you're going to see is an animated gif made by James Tyrwhitt-Drake using a scanning electronic microscope at the University of Victoria's... Read more

  The 06 December 2012 by   Gerard
  

• Anime Style Game of Thrones Characters (SPOILER ALLERT)

  

  After so many  art works depicting scenes and characters from the world of Game of Thrones, the whole trendy saga still never fails to excite me. Read more

  The 05 December 2012 by   Ningauble
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