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March 30, 2008
Category: My photos
I took this photo about two years ago, when the French mechanical marionette street theatre company Royal de Luxe came to London. It's one of several pics from my photostream that have been favorited by other Flickr users....
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Category: Miscellaneous
That impoverished student would be me, and I feel like I'm begging, but desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm studying part-time for my M.Sc., and working three days a week to support my family and pay the mortgage, bills...
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Category: Technology
This track, called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet, has just been uploaded on YouTube. I thought it was hilarious the first time I saw it, and it's still very amusing on the fourth viewing. I'm not an expert on...
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March 28, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Jennifer Ouellette reports from a month-long program on the anatomy, development and evolution of the brain, at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, with a fantastic post called Tools of the brain trade.Inspired by a talk given by Winifred Denk,...
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March 26, 2008
Category: Animal Behaviour
Traditionally, the use of tools was believed to be restricted to humans and several other primate species, and, like language, was argued to be a major driving force behind the evolution of the human brain. However, this view is now...
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March 25, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
A comparative neuroimaging study performed by researchers from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Oxford, provides clues to how human language evolved.In the past, it was believed that the increase in brain size...
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March 22, 2008
Category: My photos
Isis was born at 12:12pm yesterday, weighing in at a very healthy 8lb 5oz. Mummy is exhausted after her second Caesarian section, but both are otherwise well, and will be coming home in a couple of days. Needless to...
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March 19, 2008
Category: Medicine & Health
Image: Phisick Antique Medical CollectionThis highly detailed papier mache model of the human brain, which can be pulled apart to reveal labelled and numbered structures within, was created by the French physician Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux (1797-1880).In the early...
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March 17, 2008
Category: Medicine & Health
The Sunday Times has an incredible story about Henry Marsh, a consultant neurosurgeon at St. George's Hospital in South London, who travels to a hospital in Kiev twice a year in his spare time to perform free operations using only...
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March 15, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
For the benefit of new readers, I've selected what I think are the best posts from this blog....
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