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Science News
April 25, 2009
Bruce Bower |
Out Of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, And Other Lessons From The Biology Of Consciousness By Alva Noe In his new book, the University of California, Berkeley philosopher offers an often thought-provoking explanation of why neuroscientists won't make headway in understanding conscious experience until they drop their brain-a-centric attitudes.   |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Glenn Zorpette |
Waiting for the Rapture The singularity is supposed to begin shortly after engineers build the first computer with greater-than-human intelligence. |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
Science News
July 15, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Math Trek: Flirting with the Impossible Common sense by itself is too limiting for making progress in mathematics. New concepts arise out of leaps of imagination. And such out-of-the-box thinking puts mathematics into a rich intellectual landscape that it shares with physics, philosophy, literature, and art. |
Technology Research News
October 3, 2005
Eric Smally |
USC's Michael Arbib The Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science shares his views on trends in science and technology, his work, and the links between technology, neuroscience, and behavior. |
Reason
April 2005
Kenneth Silber |
Are We Just Really Smart Robots? Two books on the mind put the human back into human beings: On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee... Mind: A Brief Introduction, by John R. Searle... |
Geotimes
May 2005
Megan Sever |
Inside the "Hobbit's" Head After studying the miniature hominid's skull and models of its brain, paleoanthropologists have determined that the Indonesian find is indeed a new species, not a Homo sapiens with a brain abnormality. |
InternetNews
October 16, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Point, Click, Save Your Brain New study suggests link between Internet activity and mental acuity. |
Teacher Magazine
May 2000 |
Brainiacs While fanfare may feed the egos of brain researchers, it worries them, too. According to some scientists, brain research is being oversimplified, misinterpreted, and, most troubling, misapplied. |
National Defense
October 2011
Eric Beidel |
Brain Implants Could Help 'REMIND' Injured Soldiers Scientists may have taken an important step in their work to restore memory to the injured brains of disabled soldiers. |
Scientific American
January 9, 2006
Philip E. Ross |
Half-Brained Schemes If halving the brain of an epileptic child can suppress debilitating seizures without interfering with the development of normal intellectual abilities, what's all that gray matter good for, anyway? |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
Do Brainpower Apps Really Make You Smarter? Along with Lumosity and CogniFit, Fit Brains Trainer is one of the key players in the market for cognitive-training platforms ostensibly designed to keep your mind sharp. |
PC Magazine
July 4, 2008
Logan Kugler |
Understanding the Brain As much as we know about the human brain, there's just as much we don't know. |
