CarmEmily » brain

Nerd alert…

Carmen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:11:46 +0000

I’m sharing your love for Wired Magazine today with their “Stunning Views of Glaciers from Space” (!) I love looking at these pictures and just imagining the millions of years of time and information that locked in that ice.

Just perusing Wired’s list of Recent Articles is like finding a treasure trove of information. So, I think you are right, we should get a subscription.

Here is a list of some articles just to entice you:

“Freaky new Ghostshark ID’d Off California Coast”

“One Million Spiders make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth”

“Details of Galactic Core Revealed in X-Rays”

Ok, thats enough.

Here’s something else nerdy that I thought you would like. This article about our brain’s “dark network“. Apparently, our brain is constantly traveling back and forth in time visiting our past and our future except when we have a task at hand and then the time traveling chatter falls silent so we can concentrate. Weird.

ethics shmethics

Emilily — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:16:20 +0000

Did you read the article in today’s Daily Galaxy yet, the one about improved memory? Fascinating stuff, however, what is the deal with this quote: “A team of scientists at the Spanish University of Malaga were working with rat brains, because of the combination of ethics and wimpiness that prevents human trials.” I mean, haven’t we been saying all this time, we’re ready already? I am going to be so bummed when I am 90 and the youth of tomorrow is getting all these biological and/or genetic enhancements and I’m stuck living out my golden years in a rocking chair on some shady porch with this completely obsolete 21st century brain I was born with. It’s rubbish.

A few things for you this morning

Emilily — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:59:47 +0000

First, awesome: superpowers, nearly. I am not kidding when I say I would be willing to test like a robotic third arm or something to see if my brain could figure out what to do with it.

Second, here’s a joke I read in Maxim:

What’s the number one most effective pick-up line?

“Does this smell like chloroform to you?”

Third, do you subscribe to Wired magazine? You know how we were talking about subscribing to a men’s magazine? I think Wired might be a good option, even though it is not technically just a men’s magazine. I read one on the plane on my trip to Ashland (I also read a Maxim, and the joke above was the only worth-repeating bit of information I got from it, so I would say that one is out of the running) and dang, does it have a TON of useful information in it! It has business, technology, gadgets, politics, and wicked cool random facts. All kinds of useful “how-to’s” like the men’s magazines, minus all the ads for after-shave, body spray, and hookers.

Okay, I had another project I wanted to post today, but I think I actually have to get some work done right now.

What I’ve learned today…

Carmen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:38:21 +0000

This is what I’ve been reading about today, I thought you might be interested.

First! Wtf?! Babies can talk dog language! At first I was wondering how this kind of research will benefit the human race but in the end I think its just an example of how our brains develop. It would make sense that our brains would recognize tone differences before anything else. http://bit.ly/1K0X9Z

Here is some more good brain stuff! I can imagine in the future they will look back on this article the way we look back on 8 tracks. New York Times brain article

And I learned this recipe which I will be making shortly. I like the way this guy talks.

http://epicureanzealot.com/2009/07/21/its-a-hit-green-beans-and-farro/