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Scientists claim brain memory code cracked
Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while memories last lifetimes. This suggests…
cool! h/t to n2 on this one
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In just one year, the expenditure of the U.S.’s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson(Source: anticapitalist)
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Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides
This method is similar to the way I’ve been trying to present some of my work, but it was an instinctive structure (I didn’t read up on methods, or know about this work). I should try to follow this more completely and see how it works.
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Repo Man director urges fans to "pirate a bunch of my stuff right away"
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
Alex Cox, director of the classic Repo Man, talks with The Quietus’s Craig Terlino about his frustrations with the entertainment industry, the alleged longstanding studio grudge that’s prevented a US Repo Man Blu-Ray reissue…
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What does science fiction tell us about the future of reproductive rights?
Annalee Newitz, io9.comIf everything from technology to politics will be different in the future, then so will human reproduction. That’s why so much science fiction deals with the question of how humans make babies — or don’t make them — in alternate worl…
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It probably is easier.
- friend: I feel so much better after talking to you.
- friend: Anything I can do to help you?
- me: stop time?
- me: cure my cold?
- me: keep the GOP from being idiotic?
- me: or any politicians for that matter...
- friend: stopping time is easier than that.
