A cat’s vision reconstructed via neuro-scans
Source. Images and link to article provided in the source link. Also worth seeing: a short video explaining the process.
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“The Brain on Trial”
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/1/ Highlights below, but it’s a short read and I very much recommend it. “Patients with frontotemporal dementia commonly end up in courtrooms, where their lawyers, doctors, and embarrassed adult children must explain to the judge that the violation was not the perpetrator’s fault, exactly: much of the brain has degenerated, and medicine offers [...]
Cute philosophy paper
http://philpapers.org/archive/DIETIN.1.pdf Written by: Eric Dietrich Summary: “There is much more work to do on points of view, work that is required before the weirdness that is philosophy can be explained and understood. But we now know this much: In philosophy, clashing points of view are ineluctable, and their existence is the only truth. Thus philosophy [...]
It’s all missing something:
http://www.uline.com/BL_6854/Super-Stick-Packing-List-Envelopes
Leo Ryan – candidate for most hardcore politician
This man deserved far more recognition. I should have read about him at some point in school, because what a BAMF. Grade A. Irreplaceable. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan “After the Watts Riots of 1965, then-Assemblyman Ryan took a job as a substitute school teacher to investigate and document conditions in the area. In 1970, he investigated the conditions of California [...]