Understand your connectome, understand yourself

By Sebastian Seung @ MIT | October 17, 2016

—– NO ROAD, NO trail can pen­e­trate this for­est. The long and del­i­cate branch­es of its trees lie every­where, chok­ing space with their exu­ber­ant growth. No sun­beam can fly a path tor­tu­ous enough to nav­i­gate the nar­row spaces between these entan­gled branch­es. All the trees of this dark for­est grew from 100 bil­lion seeds planted…

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To Be (Your Connectome), or Not to Be (Your Genome)

By SharpBrains | February 6, 2012

The brain’s bil­lions of neu­rons resem­ble trees of many species and come in many fan­tas­tic shapes. Only the most deter­mined explor­ers can hope to cap­ture a glimpse of this forest’s inte­ri­or, and even they see lit­tle, and see it poor­ly. Would your con­nec­tome reveal any­thing inter­est­ing about you? Learn about con­nec­tome from this book.

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Scientia Pro Publica #16: Us, Friends, and Society

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 16, 2009 |

Wel­come to the 16th edi­tion  of Sci­en­tia Pro Pub­li­ca, the blog car­ni­val  that cel­e­brates the best sci­ence, nature and med­ical writ­ing pub­lished in the blo­gos­phere with­in the past 60 days. What are some of the fas­ci­nat­ing top­ics you can explore and dis­cuss with this group of blog­gers? Sci­ence & Us The Evolv­ing Mind: What’s the point of…

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