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Our brains hover on the edge of chaos. This is a good thing. Includes fascinating video of chaotic brain simulations.

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Condensing rule from raw data has long been considered the province of human intuition, not machine intelligence. Decipher datasets too complex for human analysis. As possible fields of application: environmental systems, weather patterns, population genetics, cosmology and oceanography. Any natural science has teh type of structure that would be amenable

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In his review of Superorganism, Tim Flannery point to the parallels between the ants and our everyday human experiences:

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There may be some neurological truth to those claims that memorizing lists or daily Sudoku encourages mental limberness. Even more importantly, the results lend some support that people in early stages of Alzheimers disease may slow their cognitive declin

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We are always living nearly one-half second in the past. Now, it isn't surprising that there is some delay between an event and our becoming aware of it. This is the normal unfolding of cause and effect. This might not be a concern if we were just passive

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Concomitant longevity means you have more to remember

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Regular work schedule, rough edges, resist research, forget muse, kill your wp, no real time distractors. Easy peasy, no?

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The things we fear the most are simply irrational

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What's in store for Canada in the area of technology law and policy?Modest progress interrupted by another election in the Fall.

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Disease-mongering =the marketing strategy by pharmaceuticals to promote diseases to fit drugs instead of promoting drugs to treat diseases.

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Even though we yearn for what is new, most of us are unable or willing to make fundamental changes in our lives. Change is rarely as easy as we think it will be.

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"Kids from lower socioeconomic levels show brain physiology patterns similar to someone who actually had damage in the frontal lobe as an adult," said Robert Knight, director of the institute and a UC Berkeley professor of psychology. "This is a wake-up c

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Take a scientific question like the genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees. Would you prefer to plough through an essay on the subject, or to glance at the visualization created by Fry in which the 75,000 letters of coding in the human genome f

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When you smile, the world smiles with you.

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It seems everyone occassionally procrastinates, 15 to 20 percent of adult routinely put off activities that would be better accomplished right away, and a whopping 80 to 95 percent of college students have a penchant for postponement.

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Elevation = the emotions of uplift. '[Thomas] Jefferson wrote of the physical sensation that comes from witnessing goodness in others: It is to "dilate [the] breast and elevate [the] sentiments … and privately covenant to copy the fair example."

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The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, is a portrait of two Frenchmen, one an ambassador to the court of King Henry VIII, the other a cleric. They are leaning on a cupboard with displays, on the upper shelf objects referring to the heavens and, on

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