OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Biology:
To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemispheres (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway. Here's what happens as a result:...
Posted on February 9, 2008 11:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The memory-evaluation study, headed by Dr. Franklin McCarroll of New York University's School of Psychology, revealed that approximately 47 percent of Jenkins' hippocampus is dedicated to storing notable video-game victories and frustrating last-minute defeats, while 32 percent of his amygdala contains embedded neurological scripts pertaining to game strategies, character back...
Posted on January 12, 2008 10:50 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since you've all been clamouring to see it, here's my new tattoo, and a video clip of the work in progress. It's an intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell, my favourite type of neuron. The artist was Gordon at Brain Drops, highly recommended. :) Enjoy your holidays!...
Posted on December 21, 2007 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I love science blogs but you know... I really get sick of the acronym filled science talk, the obnoxious politics, and of course the religion sometimes. I just discovered a great new blog that has all the natural curiosity of a science blog but non of the crap. It is...
Posted on December 4, 2007 12:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've always heard that a beard can keep you warmer during the winter months but how can you really know?! After all, if you start with a beard and then shave it off there might be some strange adaptation effect going on. And who knows the memory of cold might...
Posted on December 3, 2007 10:17 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just because animals doing human things are funny I give you an elephant throwing darts: -via Neatorama-...
Posted on November 28, 2007 4:26 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A video featuring the cartoon fetus eating Christopher Reeve as well as a serious video from CBS News. Learn as well as be offended all in the same post!
Posted on November 21, 2007 9:43 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
An entertaining posting on craigslist: Survival Of The Fittest Date: 2007-08-30, 2:03PM EDT Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my...
Posted on November 14, 2007 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Look Around You: Brain. "The brain is basically a wrinkled bag of skin filled with warm water, veins, and thought muscles. ... The opposite of the brain is probably the bum." Brief vintage BBC parody of science education films about the brain. Watch through to the end, when a...
Posted on October 19, 2007 8:00 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans for inventing a technique called Gene Targeting. According to the NYTimes: The three scientists were honored for a technique called gene targeting, which lets scientists inactivate or modify particular genes in mice....
Posted on October 8, 2007 10:05 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.
