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An exploration of the serious/fun/ridiculous - past/present/future of the brain and the science that loves it.
The Omnibrain 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, The Omnibrain is a real graduate student at a real school somewhere in the continental United States - or maybe Europe.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Category: Drugs
Mind Hacks has alerted us to some amazing engineering from Harvard University: A team from Harvard Medical School are interested in how smoked marijuana affects the brain, but have come to the inevitable conclusion that it's actually quite hard smoking a joint when you're lying on your back being brain...
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Category: Brain Toys
A group funded by the Royal College of art has created an ice cream dispenser named Dr. Whippy. The good doctor will dispense a prescription for ice cream if you sound sufficiently miserable. It is based on a voice-stress analysis of various answers to questions it asks. Check it out,...
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Category: Neuroscience
Head over to Mind Hacks for more MRI madness! There you will read about the many examples of all the stupid shit people brought into the room with a big freakin' magnet and ended up flying across the room (and sometimes tragically killing someone). Here at Omni Brain we figured...
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Category: Links
Links to many science education web sites for kids, mostly brain-related.
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Category: Neurotech & Robotics
Student robot project answers a big question: Do robots prefer Pepsi or Coke?
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Category: Neurotech & Robotics
This past weekend I went to RoboGames. There were many squee moments (Plen was there! so cute! etc.), many pictures taken (which are trapped on my phone for the moment), and many things learned while wandering around among the room full of dads and their kids. Maybe the most...
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Category: Neuroart
Channel N: Vintage Online Neuroimaging includes clips like this 1998 overlay of PET onto MRI, depicting pain in an area of the brain. View file....
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Category: Parapsychology
Growing up I used to read Omni magazine and would always see all sorts of devices that supposedly could induce lucid dreams or tapes that had subliminal messages recorded along with Bach to create special brain states where you'd be particularly receptive to messages like - "you will be psychic......
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Category: Psychology
Ok... not really at home (Are they really suggesting in the picture that you can do it yourself?). There are now some relatively simple consumer devices on the market that will let your Psychiatrist wave his magic wand over your head, helping to alleviate your depressive symptoms in his office...
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Category: Video
A host of Omni Brain-collected videos at Vod Pod - add our pod to your account or just click to watch these short clips of a giant aneurism, a monkey's brain that controls a robot, a bit of art, time-lapsed child corpus callosum development, and, just for fun, a...
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PZ Myers 11.24.2009
PZ Myers 11.24.2009
Tim Lambert 11.22.2009
Ed Brayton 11.24.2009
Ed Brayton 11.24.2009
