Human Connectome Project releases major data set on brain connectivity The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to link brain connectivity to human behavior, has released a set of high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific community. The project has two major goals: to collect vast amounts of data using advanced brain imaging methods on a large population of healthy adults, and to make the data freely available so that scientists worldwide can make further discoveries about brain circuitry. The initial data release includes brain imaging scans plus behavioral information — individual differences in personality, cognitive capabilities, emotional characteristics and perceptual function — obtained from 68 healthy adult volunteers. Over the next several years, the number of subjects studied will increase steadily to a final target of 1,200. The initial release is an important milestone because the new data have much higher resolution in space and time than data obtained by conventional brain scans. Courtesy of D. Courtesy of M.F.
Vertus des plantes | La Fée aux Herbes Pour accéder à la boutique en ligne, cliquez sur ce lien : Ces écrits proviennent de mes études, de ma modeste expérience et du savoir millénaire des herboristes. Elles ne dispensent pas d’un diagnostic médical. Vous trouverez dans cette rubrique quelques indications sur l’utilisation traditionnelle des plantes. Vertus des plantes médicinales (concentrés liquides) Ces écrits sont rédigés par la Fée aux Herbes et en sont la propriété pleine et exclusive, veuillez demander l’autorisation avant quelconque reproduction ou diffusion. Vertus des plantes médicinales (elixirs floraux) L’achillée millefeuille rose dynamise. Elle protège le champ électromagnétique. A long terme, elle favorise la télépathie et les perceptions extra-sensorielles. La bourrache amène courage, confiance, optimisme, force vitale psychique et physique. Elle chasse la mélancolie, le chagrin, la tristesse, le découragement face aux épreuves et stimule la joie. Son énergie est lunaire, féminine.
Harvard creates brain-to-brain interface, allows humans to control other animals with thoughts alone This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans — which is a good thing in the case of friends and family, but terrifying if you stop to think about the nefarious possibilities of a fascist dictatorship with mind control tech. In recent years there have been huge advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces, where your thoughts are detected and “understood” by a sensor attached to a computer, but relatively little work has been done in the opposite direction (computer-brain interfaces). Which brings us neatly onto Harvard’s human-mouse brain-to-brain interface.
A time traveller’s guide to medieval 14th-century shopping The poet WH Auden once suggested that, in order to understand your own country, you need to have lived in at least two others. But what about your own time? By the same reckoning, you need to have experienced at least two other centuries. We can approach the past as if it really is ‘a foreign country’ – somewhere we might visit. The marketplace “Ribs of beef and many a pie!” All around him people are moving, gesturing, talking. Crowds are noisy. What can you buy? But in most markets it is the popular varieties which you see glistening in the wet hay-filled crates. Next we come to an area set aside for corn: sacks of wheat, barley, oats and rye are piled up, ready for sale to the townsmen. These are only for the wealthy. The rest of the marketplace performs two functions. Planks, you ask? Everyone in medieval society is heavily dependent on each other for such supplies, and the marketplace is where all these interdependencies meet. Haggling Regulations Facts Prices in the 1390s*
Glass Sculptures Of Deadly Viruses and Bacteria By Like Jerram | Rederr January 10, 2014 Glass Sculptures Of Deadly Viruses Made By Luke Jerram Ebola Artwork By Luke Jerram - Website - Facebook - Twitter Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a viral haemorrhagic fever and one of the most virulent viral diseases known to humankind. One of the most complex glass artworks Jerram’s team have created to date, the sculpture was commissioned for Artis Royal Zoo, Amsterdam, Holland. Giardia Giardia is a parasite that can infect the intestines and cause ‘giardiasis’ which can lead to sudden-onset (acute) or persistent (chronic) diarrhoea. Created 20,000 x larger than the actual parasite, the artwork has been made for Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam. E. coli This is one of the largest and most fragile of Jerram’s sculptures. Ev71 – Hand Foot and Mouth Disease Enterovirus 71 (EV71), one of the major causative agents for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). This virus is a member of the enterovirus species A. The artwork was commissioned by a scientific research centre in 2012. Amoeba
Académie de l'Apothicaire Impossible colors Impossible colors or forbidden colors are hues that cannot be perceived by ordinary viewing conditions from light that is a combination of various intensities of the various frequencies of visible light. Examples of impossible colors are bluish-yellow and reddish-green.[1] This does not mean the muddy brown color created when mixing red and green pigments (such as paints), or the green color from mixing yellow and blue pigments, but rather colors that appear to be similar to, for example, both red and green, or both yellow and blue. Other colors never experienced by ordinary viewing, but perceivable under special artificial laboratory conditions, would also be termed impossible colors. Where opposing colors cancel each other out, the remaining color on the vertical axis is perceived. Opponent process[edit] The opponent process and chimerical colors[edit] By staring at a "fatigue template" for 20-60 seconds, then switching to a neutral target, it is possible to view "impossible" colors.
What medieval Europe did with its teenagers Image copyright Getty Images Today, there's often a perception that Asian children are given a hard time by their parents. But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home. Not surprisingly, the children didn't always like it. Around the year 1500, an assistant to the Venetian ambassador to England was struck by the strange attitude to parenting that he had encountered on his travels. He wrote to his masters in Venice that the English kept their children at home "till the age of seven or nine at the utmost" but then "put them out, both males and females, to hard service in the houses of other people, binding them generally for another seven or nine years". It was for the children's own good, he was told - but he suspected the English preferred having other people's children in the household because they could feed them less and work them harder. So why did this seemingly cruel system evolve?
Mystery Flu Winter 2013 Zinc disrupts magnesium uptake in pneumonia zinc starves lethal bacteria to stop infection Monday, 11 November 2013 Australian researchers have found that zinc can 'starve' one of the world's most deadly bacteria by preventing its uptake of an essential metal. The finding, by infectious disease researchers at the University of Adelaide and The University of Queensland, opens the way for further work to design antibacterial agents in the fight against Streptococcus pneumoniae. Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for more than one million deaths a year, killing children, the elderly and other vulnerable people by causing pneumonia, meningitis, and other serious infectious diseases. The study reveals that the bacterial transporter (PsaBCA) uses a 'spring-hammer' mechanism to bind the metals. "Without manganese, these bacteria can easily be cleared by the immune system," says Dr McDevitt. Dr. Dr.