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by davi 3mo ago
Even low-dose ultrasound (what they use on pregnant woman) results in ultrastructural changes in brains [0], specifically at the nodes of Ranvier (the gaps between myelin along axons). See also [1] for a review. [0] Ellisman MH, Palmer DE,
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Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan(theatlantic.com)
11 points by davi 1y ago|3 comments
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by davi 2y ago
In summer of 1997 I interned at the Santa Fe Institute. Barry McMullin was there as well, using swarm (an early cellular automata library) to reimplement and extend the original autopoiesis algorithm. His report: https://www.sant
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The Package King of Miami(nymag.com)
4 points by davi 2y ago|0 comments
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The Pirate Codes(adjacentpossible.substack.com)
1 points by davi 5y ago|0 comments
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A Startup’s Unusual Plan to Suck Carbon Out of the Sky(theatlantic.com)
3 points by davi 6y ago|0 comments
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by davi 8y ago
True. And this approach continues - the IARPA MICrONs program is trying to do a mm cube of mouse visual cortex: https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/microns
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by davi 8y ago
In the fruit fly, neuronal cell types are highly morphologically stereotyped and identifiable across animals. This means that for a given cell type, you can collect data on electrical synapses in animal A, on transmitters in animal B, and o
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by davi 8y ago
Late to the party, but corresponding author on the paper here. Cool to see this on HN! We have less than "half the picture" here. Not just weights; also missing electrical synapses, neurotransmitters, etc. We also don't kno
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Weird, Wonderful Photos from the Archives(theatlantic.com)
1 points by davi 9y ago|0 comments
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The Dairy Industry Lost $420M from a Flaw in a Single Bull(theatlantic.com)
2 points by davi 9y ago|0 comments
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Upshot gives 4 pollsters the same raw data, gets 4 different conclusions(nytimes.com)
4 points by davi 10y ago|0 comments
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by davi 10y ago
Hey cool, 3rd author Shane Gonin is now at Janelia (where my lab is) and I know a bit about this work. Funny to see it pop up here. The kind of electron microscopy (EM) of brain tissue I do relies upon embedding the tissue in a resin called
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To Learn About ‘Hamilton’ Ticket Bots, We Wrote Our Own Bot(nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 10y ago|0 comments
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On academic publishing(albert.rierol.net)
1 points by davi 10y ago|0 comments
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Updating Beliefs(michaelinzlicht.com)
6 points by davi 10y ago|0 comments
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by davi 11y ago
"The day will come when David Bowie is a star and the crushed remains of his melodies are broadcast from Muzak boxes in every elevator and hotel lobby in town." - Nancy Erlich, July 11 1971 New York Times ( http://timesm
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Trivers' Pursuit(psychologytoday.com)
1 points by davi 11y ago|0 comments
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by davi 11y ago
Whups, forgot the email in my HN profile isn't visible, and now too late to edit the post; here are some links: - website & email: https://www.janelia.org/lab/bock-lab; bockd@janelia.hhmi.org - more on our app
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by davi 11y ago
Bock lab, Janelia research campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) | Ashburn, VA | ONSITE Data scientist / Neurogeometer We recently finished acquiring an electron microscopy dataset encompassing the entire brain of a fruitfly (
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Trek T80+ Electric Bike Review(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
1 points by davi 11y ago|0 comments
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How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
404 points by davi 11y ago|79 comments
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by davi 11y ago
Classic quote: “Harald is much smarter,” Betzig said. “When I left Bell Labs, I said ‘fuck you.’ When Harald left, he took all his equipment.”
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At Bell Labs, Eric Betzig describes his very indirect path to scientific success(arstechnica.com)
13 points by davi 11y ago|1 comments
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Turning Carbon Dioxide into Rock, and Burying It(nytimes.com)
2 points by davi 12y ago|0 comments
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Here's looking at you, squid(nature.com)
2 points by davi 12y ago|0 comments
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Finding ROI in Higher Education(avc.com)
33 points by davi 12y ago|37 comments
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by davi 12y ago
I wrote about this here five and a half years ago, before it went "sour so quickly": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470181 As a grad student back then, I saw a pyramid scheme. Training programs were (and are
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A Classroom Leaves the Syllabus to the Students(nytimes.com)
1 points by davi 12y ago|0 comments
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Life at 60(thesundaytimes.co.uk)
4 points by davi 12y ago|2 comments

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