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Creativity « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. A link between creativity and sadness? Ever wonder why your aspirations at becoming a world-renowned poet seem to be the strongest when you're in the middle of a depressive phase in life? Is an article by Jonah Lehr tackling this very issue. Basically, he looks at an emerging body of scientific literature that suggests that depression not only bums us out, it also makes us more creative and sharpens some of our skills. One o...

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The force is strong with particle physics « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. The force is strong with particle physics. Remember that first time that you watched Star Wars? The one where, afterward, you stood thinking intensely about the coke can on the table for an hour, blindly hopeful that it was just a matter of time before you rocketed it across the room and out the window? Well, the scientists may have delivered. OK, that's not really true. But they are. So what is the Higgs Boson, then? Well, ...

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. Technology reveals what the naked eye cannot admire. Here's another crosspost from the BSR. At the University of Cambridge, the "Under the Microscope" project aims to detail the beauty and complexity of biology at its tiniest. Take, for example, this image of a "Killer T-cell" attacking a cancerous cell in the body:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? The second thing that intrigued me was just how "living" that Killer T-Cell loo...

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The science of Sandy: how a Category 1 storm can panic a nation « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. The science of Sandy: how a Category 1 storm can panic a nation. Another x-post from BSR. Wow, it almost looks like I'm turning this into a meteorology blog. Becoming a hurricane with some real destructive force over the last couple of days. So what is it about this particular hurricane that's got people so worried? Well, one question you might ask is: "Why is this hurricane happening in the first place? It turns out that (v...

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brain networks « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. Taking AI to the next level. Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that such a feat has proven to be incredibly difficult to achieve. Artificial Intelligence, while it has grown in complexity and scope, is still quite far from achieving any kind of accurate human resemblance. However, this may change very soon. For those of you who are familiar with brains, you know that they don't work in this fashion - there is no central proce...

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astronomy « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. Science saved my soul…. Here's one of the more inspiring and insightful videos that I've seen in quite some time. Truth be told, I know very little about the author or what their background is, but they've clearly got a knack for touching on the beautiful things in life. From a leaf to a snapshot of our galaxy, and find something wondrous, amazing, perplexing, and worth studying. The Sun just tried to punch us. And they mana...

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Education « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. Ten things you need to know about science. One of the most powerful trends of the last hundred years has been the increasing amount of "science" that exists in our classrooms. Compared with centuries ago, our students are learning more about the empirical method and the natural world than ever before. For those who just want a quick glimpse at what they came up with, here's the short list:. Atoms and nuclear reactions. I don...

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Birds « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. Birds are Quantum Physicists! Remember a few months back when an article. Came out describing that ability of birds to see magnetic fields? Well, here's another chapter in that interesting aviary saga. As I mentioned in a previous post. Scientists have been trying to figure out just how it is that birds are able to accomplish this amazing feat. Many hypotheses involve the protein. So might birds use this? Well, one theory is...

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artificial intelligence « This is Your Brain On Awesome

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This is Your Brain On Awesome. Thoughts on the world from a student of the mind. Blurring the line between man and machine. This concept was recently discussed in an article. Written by Brian Christian. A bona-fide flesh-and-blood human (honest), it covers one of the oldest questions facing humanity: what makes us special? Christian describes his experience in 2009 as a contestant in the famed " Turing test. Christians book on his encounter with the Turing test. Tagged as: artificial intelligence. Wow, m...