Using crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence, a Princeton neuroscientist is hoping to map the intricate wiring of the human brain. If he succeeds, could we live forever as data? Click here to read the NYT Magazine article by Gareth Cook
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Guest Post: “Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin
An excerpt from Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin … No matter how different the species look as adults, as tiny embryos they all go through the same stages of development. To fully appreciate the importance of this, we need to look again at our first... Read more »
The Wonderful and Terrifying Implications of Computers That Can Learn
A TED Talk by Jeremy Howard Would you like to spend your New Year’s contemplating what the future holds? Start with this! Click here to watch the video
Scientific American Best Physics Video of 2014
Surface Detail by Tom Bettered Click here to watch the video
2 Futures Can Explain Time’s Mysterious Past
New theories suggest the big bang was not the beginning, and that we may live in the past of a parallel universe… Click here to read the Scientific American article by Lee Billings