Click Here to Read: NASA releases actual recordings from space — and they’re absolutely breathtaking by Chris Coplan on the Consequences of Sound website on October 20, 2014.
Category: Science News
Myth-conceptions: How myths about the brain are hampering teaching
Hyper-Parenting, Hannah Arendt, Trauma, Simone de Beavoir, EMRs from Sasha Rolde on IP.net
Dear Colleagues:
To recover from the doldrums of reading about Ebola and the stock market, not to mention all the world political issues, I turned to our international website this week for solace – and found it. I hope that you will too. As usual, I will give you my personal choices, followed by the entire list. Enjoy.
My choices this week are:
1) In the event that you missed it, please read the note from Arlene Kramer Richards: COWAP Conference a Success
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2) The ART category contains some fascinating pictures of the Cosmos and History through time – worth looking at!!
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Cosmos as Masterpiece In ‘Cosmigraphics,’ Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time
Click Here to Read: Cosmos as Masterpiece In ‘Cosmigraphics,’ Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time By Michael Benson in The New York Times on October 13, 2014.
The universe is conjured into existence by an omnipresent creator. The 1573 image is the creation of the Portuguese artist Francisco de Holanda and one of hundreds in the book “Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time.” CreditBiblioteca Nacional de España
Breakthrough Replicates Human Brain Cells for Use in Alzheimer’s Research
Click Here to Read: Breakthrough Replicates Human Brain Cells for Use in Alzheimer’s Research By Gina Kolata in The New York Times on October 12, 2014.
The Boston neuroscientists Doo Yeon Kim, left, and Rudolph E. Tanzi grew diseased cells in a petri dish as a way to quickly and cheaply test treatments. DOMINICK REUTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Critical finding reveals atomic structure of a protein link between Type 2 diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s
Click Here to Read: Critical finding reveals atomic structure of a protein link between Type 2 diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s by Abigail Klein Leichman on the Israel 21C website on October 9. 2014.
Scientist Yifat Miller at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva. Photo by Dani Machlis/BGU
A Mother’s Prenatal Depression Can Harm Her Baby
Nobel Laureates Pushed Limits of Microscopes
Click Here to Read: Nobel Laureates Pushed Limits of Microscopes By Kenneth Chang in The New York Times on October 8, 2014.
From left, the researchers Stefan W. Hell, William E. Moerner and Eric Betzig were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for advances in optical microscopy.CreditJochen Lübke/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Stanford University, via European Pressphoto Agency; European Pressphoto Agency
Study Links Anxiety Drugs to Alzheimer’s Disease
A Doctor Unlocks Mysteries Of The Brain By Talking And Watching
Click Here to Read and Listen to: A Doctor Unlocks Mysteries Of The Brain By Talking And Watching by Jon Hamilton on the WBUR website on September 29, 2014.
Dr. Allan Ropper speaks with residents and fellows as they do rounds at the neuroscience intensive care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. (M. Scott Brauer for NPR)