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nsf.gov - Funding - Small Business Innovation Research & Small Business Technology Transfer (Program Description) - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:37:08 -0000

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The primary objective of the NSF SBIR/STTR Program is to increase the incentive and opportunity for small firms to undertake cutting-edge, high risk, high quality scientific, engineering, or science/engineering education research that would have a high potential economic payoff if the research is successful.

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The Kavli Prize

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:08:28 -0000

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Seven pioneering scientists who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics have become the first recipients of the million-dollar Kavli prizes. The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Ole Didrik Lærum, announced the names of the prize-winners at the Academy in Oslo today, 28 May.

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MIT World » : The Computational Nature of Language Learning

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:13:58 -0000

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Niyogi believes that an “evolutionary trajectory” links how acquisition happens at an individual level, and how variation in language springs up from one generation to the next. But rather than inheriting the grammar of your parents, you have to learn it. Examining language variation over time as if it were genetic variation, “you get a different mathematical structure…and probabilities start playing an important role.” Small differences “can have very subtle consequences giving rise to bifurcation in nonlinear dynamics of evolution.” For instance, 1000 years ago, the English were speaking a language that’s unrecognizable to us today. How has it come to be that “we have moved so far from that point through learning which is mimicking the previous generation?”

Niyogi explains that within a single population two varying languages may be in competition (say, a German and an English-type grammar). While a majority may speak the dominant variant, some children will likely be exposed to a mixture of the two. There’s a “drift” in language use, “and suddenly, what was stable becomes unstable.”

Past posts in my blog also dealt with the evolution of language. I am wondering how this plays out in larger organizational and social systems and the interaction of different systems ie Americans in Iraq or other situations. Especially with the web accelerating communications even if it is not directly connected to everybody within a system.

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MIT World » : Machine Learning of Language from Distributional Evidence

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:13:41 -0000

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Christopher Manning thinks linguistics went astray in the 20th century when it searched “for homogeneity in language, under the misguided assumption that only homogeneous systems can be structured.” In the face of human creativity with language, rigid categories of linguistic use just don’t help explain how people actually talk and what they choose to say. For every hard and fast rule linguists find, other linguists can determine an exception. Categorical constraints rise, then come crashing down.

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Meeting the Entropy Challenge

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:23 -0000

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By organizing an international symposium on the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics thirty years after the passing away of professor Joseph Henry Keenan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology intends to honor this distinguished scientist who served on the faculty of its Mechanical Engineering Department for 43 years and effectively started an innovative school of thought on thermodynamics.

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Mind Science Foundation

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:50:40 -0000

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The Mind Science Foundation’s modern-day mission is to raise awareness and levels of funding for one of the major unsolved questions in science: how consciousness arises in human beings (Science July 1, 2005). posted by brianddrpm

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"Tracing the Second Law", Feature Article, July 2007

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:56:00 -0000

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While man learned to control and use fire many thousands of years ago, only in the last 300 years has the nature of heat been given serious consideration. In this short time, it has been explained as phlogiston, a mysterious fluid created by fire, and as caloric, a material fluid flowing from hot to cold. The modern view, that heat is a convertible form of energy, is fewer than 200 years old. posted by brianddrpm

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James Joule

James Joule posted by brianddrpm

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MIT : Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:36:34 -0000

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MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences stands at the nexus of neuroscience, biology and psychology. We combine these disciplines to study specific aspects of the brain and mind including: vision, movement systems, learning and memory, neural and cognitive development, language and reasoning. Working collaboratively, we apply our expertise, tools, and techniques to address and answer both fundamental and universal questions about how the brain and mind work.

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Neuroethics Publications

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:14:58 -0000

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'Neuroethics' is the ethics of neuroscience, analogous to the term 'bioethics' which denotes the ethics of biomedical science more generally. It encompasses a wide array of ethical issues emerging from different branches of clinical neuroscience (neurology, psychiatry, psychopharmacology) and basic neuroscience (cognitive neuroscience, affective neuroscience). These include ethical problems raised by advances in functional neuroimaging, brain implants and brain-machine interfaces and psychopharmacology as well as by our growing understanding of the neural bases of behavior, personality, consciousness, and states of spiritual transcendence. This collection brings together the work of a growing number of Penn researchers from across the academic disciplines who are contributing to the neuroethics literature.

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MIT World » : Human Simulations of Language Learning

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:14:22 -0000

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This workshop, explains Michael Coen, is an effort to engender temperate, collaborative discussion of a matter that inspires hot dispute: whether machine learning helps explain how humans acquire language. In particular, says Coen, machine learning advocates believe they have evidence against Noam Chomsky’s “poverty of stimulus argument,” which in essence states that language is built into us, that “children don’t receive enough linguistic inputs to explain linguistic outputs.”

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My MBTI Personality Type - MBTI Basics

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:36:07 -0000

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The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people’s lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.

This is the basis for the personality test on whether one is a Strategist from Brazen Careerist.
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BrianDRPM Paradigm Pathways Science

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:46:40 -0000

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Armed with a few students, a backhoe and a handful of markers, Deborah Gordon digs up ant colonies in the Arizona desert. She asks: How do these chitinous creatures get down to business -- and even multitask when they need to -- with no language, memory or visible leadership? Her answers could lead to a better understanding of all complex systems, from the brain to the Web. Thanks, ants

re fossil records a thing of the past? Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson (TED2005) thinks they may be. In Sunday’s New York Times, she made a case (aimed at the general public) that DNA sequencing and analysis now provides more detailed proof of evolution than fossils ever could.

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Powell's Books - The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela H. Smith

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:06:44 -0000

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Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans.

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Misreading the mind - Los Angeles Times

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:01:59 -0000

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The success of modern neuroscience represents the triumph of a method: reductionism. The premise of reductionism is that the best way to solve a complex problem -- and the brain is the most complicated object in the known universe -- is to study its most basic parts. The mind, in other words, is just a particular trick of matter, reducible to the callous laws of physics.

Thumbnail book review: Proust was a Neuroscientist Category: Opinion

Posted on: December 21, 2007 11:47 AM, by Greta Munger

I just finished reading Jonah Lehrer's book Proust was a Neuroscientist.

Quick review: good book, very fun read, and I'm happy to recommend it to almost everyone. I just have one small quibble. For the quibble to make any sense, you need to know something about my teaching. Students in all my psychology classes have to write a few paragraphs to earn "culture points." They must consider how psychology connects to art, though the social context surrounding the event is also fair game for analysis. So my students attend a concert, visit a museum, or go to a play or dance performance and then write a paragraph connecting some aspect of psychology to their experience. I get a lot of discussion of the Gestalt grouping principles with paintings, but every semester several students make more interesting connections: noticing how a theatrical production manipulated their attention using a sudden movement, or positive reinforcement at work between live performers and their audience, or discussing how a particular aspect o
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Pathways to New Paradigms: Predicting New Paradigm Pathways In Science

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:36:39 -0000

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This is one of my posts, which I previously stated were only temporary stepping stones to other resources. So why tag it? This goes again to the intention or purpose of creating a weblog and the posts within that weblog. If its only two or three, in some cases even 128 for WHO | What are the key health dangers for children its still only a drop in the Web2.0 ocean. But then if those 128 also do it. As another aspect of this ongoing web 2.0 experiment, I am going to see what happens with this.
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For science geeks of all levels of intensity this article from Science Magazine is like a candy store. Anybody who by chance stops by this post should go to the original article provided above. Below are the samplings of resources available on these various subjects.

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Pathways to New Paradigms: Science Score Card

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:41:00 -0000

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The full article link is above, the links below connect to additional sites of interest.

This is another instance in which a post of this weblog serves as a means of disseminating connections to sites of interest. It is not really adding anything to what was already available at the original site. In fact it is summarizing and therefore potentially eliminating information. So, does anybody see this who would not have seen the actual Science article? If that is the purpose, then that argues that it should be placed in the various tagging systems and this note should be made a diigo sticky note. . posted by brianddrpm

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Class Home Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:08:23 -0000

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What Is the HapMap

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:00:32 -0000

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The HapMap is a catalog of common genetic variants that occur in human beings. It describes what these variants are, where they occur in our DNA, and how they are distributed among people within populations and among populations in different parts of the world.

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John Hawks Anthropology Weblog

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:58:27 -0000

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Physics.org - Your guide to physics on the internet

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:59:48 -0000

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Brianddrpm's Favorite Links on science from Diigo

nsf.gov - Funding - Small Business Innovation Research & Small Business Technology Transfer (Program Description) - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

The Kavli Prize

MIT World » : The Computational Nature of Language Learning

MIT World » : Machine Learning of Language from Distributional Evidence

Meeting the Entropy Challenge

Mind Science Foundation

"Tracing the Second Law", Feature Article, July 2007

MIT : Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Neuroethics Publications

MIT World » : Human Simulations of Language Learning

My MBTI Personality Type - MBTI Basics

BrianDRPM Paradigm Pathways Science

Powell's Books - The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution by Pamela H. Smith

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Misreading the mind - Los Angeles Times

Thumbnail book review: Proust was a Neuroscientist Category: Opinion

Pathways to New Paradigms: Predicting New Paradigm Pathways In Science

Pathways to New Paradigms: Science Score Card

Class Home Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University

What Is the HapMap

John Hawks Anthropology Weblog

Physics.org - Your guide to physics on the internet