Click Here to Read: The Neuroscience of Lucid Dreams By Susana Martinez-Conde on The Scientific American website on January 31, 2015.
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The man who tricked Nazis and transformed medicine
Autism Research: Week in Review
We Know How You Feel: Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait.
Click Here to Read: We Know How You Feel: Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait. By Raffi Khatchadourian in The New Yorker in the January 19, 2015 Issue.
By scanning your face, computers can decode your unspoken reaction to a movie, a political debate, even a video call with a friend. CREDIT ILLUSTRATION BY BRYAN CHRISTIE
US agencies rank 2014 as Earth’s warmest recorded year
What we remember (and forget) about positive and negative experiences
Click Here To Read: What we remember (and forget) about positive and negative experiences: The affective responses we experience about an event influence what we later remember about that event By Elizabeth A. Kensinger on the American Psychological Association website in the Psychological Science Agenda Jorunal in October 2011 Issue, Vol. 25, No. 10.
Helix Center Winter Roundtables
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
Click Here to Read: Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says by Carl Zimmer in The New York Times on January 15, 2015.
A dead whale in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2011. As container ships multiply, more whales are being harmed, a study said. CreditMarco De Swart/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain
Click Here to Read: Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain by Gareth Cook in The New York Times on January 8, 2015.
Several distinct neurons in a mouse retina that have been mapped by volunteers playing a game developed by Sebastian Seung.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DANNY JONES. ORIGINAL IMAGES FROM EYEWIRE.
