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Though I'm still not sure if even a billion would be sufficient to do anything like what he's proposing to do – making a proper computermodel of the brain.
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Computer modelling: Brain in a box : Nature News & Comment
Henry Markram wants €1 billion to model the entire human brain. Sceptics don't think he should get it.
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After reading this article in the Guardian today (http://goo.gl/cEsiV) I found this amazing cartoon from +Nature News & Comment showing briefly how this amazing piece of food technology is done. Growing meat sounds like a proper solution for a growing world population that doesn't like stop eating huge quantities of meat!
After reading this article in the Guardian today (http://goo.gl/cEsiV) I found this amazing cartoon from +Nature News & Comment showing briefly how this amazing piece of food technology is done. Growing meat sounds like a proper solution for a growing world population that doesn't like stop eating huge quantities of meat!
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This almost sounds like a april fools day prank but given the date and medium that's very unlikely. Weird story though!
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A Tourette’s-like disorder that has so far affected 18 girls and one boy at a New York school continues to baffle experts… (sounds like the start of an X-files episode but it's true).
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Mystery US outbreak prompts further tests : Nature News & Comment
Tourette’s-like disorder in New York school confounds experts.
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See how easy it is for website to find out which social networks you're using
They also provide a solution if you care about this kind of information being available to everyone:
"If you want to prevent sites from being able to detect this then for Firefox you can try RequestPolicy or NoScript. For Chrome you can give ScriptNo a shot. On IE you can try giving Firefox or Chrome a try. ;)"
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Social Network Login Status Detector
A demo showing how websites can detect which Social Networks a visitor is logged into.
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Sad to see how powerful corporates are in preventing us from moving forward.
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+The Guardian: +AAAS president Nina Fedoroff "scared to death" that "we are sliding back into a dark era" of anti-science in the U.S.
Attacks paid for by big business are ‘driving science into a dark era’
Researchers attending one of the world’s major academic conferences ‘are scared to death of the anti-science lobby’
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