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Geotimes
May 2006
Megan Sever |
Hobbit's Species Status in Question A new study this week says that the hobbit, an 18,000-year-old diminutive hominid found in 2004 on the Indonesian island of Flores, should have never been called a new species, and that it instead is most likely a modern human with a brain abnormality.   |
D-Lib
February 2003
Terri Geitgey |
Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region More than 110,000 records and 6,000 images populate the twelve collections composing the project. The collections are listed and briefly summarized. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
David Wolman |
A Researcher's Puzzles Point to the Differences in the Autistic Brain Some scientists are setting aside the assumption that autistic brains are defective and instead focusing on how the autistic brain is different. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Ruth Halcomb |
Tame Your Inner Lizard An interview with Terry Burnham, a former economist at Harvard who applies biology to the financial markets, says the problem is that the human brain was shaped in the Pleistocene era, back when humans had to forage for food, sabotaging our investing instincts. |
Science News
October 2, 2004 |
Skeptical Brains A link to a site dedicated to showcase recent media misinterpretations of brain studies. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Eliza Strickland |
A Wiring Diagram of the Brain Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections |
Outside
November 2002
Neal Thompson |
Strengthen the Muscle Between Your Ears True fitness follows the adage "Use it or lose it." Turns out the brain follows the same rule. Here's a two-part approach to brain development -- physical and mental -- which you can effortlessly incorporate into your existing workout plan. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 11, 2013
Carmen Nobel |
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business Economists have been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. Christine Looser discusses her research on how the brain detects aliveness and the possible implications for organizations and advertisers. |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
Mark Henricks |
Gray Matters As science unlocks more and more of your brain's secrets, learn how harnessing the power of your greatest asset can create a more productive, more persuasive, more competitive business. |
Wired
August 2001
Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
PC Magazine
October 21, 2003 |
Bits & Bytes Walk-Through Apparitions... The Windows ATM... Modeling the Brain |
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. |
Bio-IT World
October 2006
Catherine Varmazis |
Completion of Allen Brain Atlas Hailed as 'Epoch-Making' The Allen Brain Atlas is a Web-based, graphic 3-D database of the mouse brain that shows the location of expression sites of more than 21,000 genes at the cellular level. The completion of this database has important implications for research into neurological disorders that affect humans. |
Bio-IT World
January 21, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Allen Brain Institute Debuts 'Google for Gene Activity' The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released its first set of gene-expression data in the brain for nearly 2,000 mouse genes. The data will have important relevance for the study of brain function, disease, and the role of genes in governing human behavior. |
Searcher
May 2002
David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here... |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Fringe Fact v. Fiction: Could Your Brain Actually Turn to Goo? In its 12th episode, Fringe brought back one of the all-time greatest, grossest sci-fi horrors: Liquefied brains. |
Science News
October 20, 2007 |
Timeline: From the October 16, 1937, Issue Scientist Describes Visit to Unknown Island in the Sky... New Disease is Reported; One Out of Five May Have it... Early Primate Fossils Collect in Northwest... |
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? |
Popular Mechanics
June 1, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Brain Man: Questions for Neuroergonomics Expert Raja Parasuraman It's a merger of neuroscience, the study of the brain, with ergonomics, the study of how to design systems and technologies to be more compatible with what we know about human capabilities and limitations. |
BusinessWeek
November 8, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
Redefining Smart Jeff Hawkins tackles his greatest passion, the study of the brain, in his new book "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines." |
