by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 15, 2009 | News
Thanks, Mike Treder, for sharing this. Mike’s the managing director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. I’m a big fan of Mike’s writings, although some may think we are not of the same species. Almost everything about us can be...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 15, 2009 | News
TIME Magazine chose NASA’s Ares Rockets as the #1 Invention of 2009. The author of the TIME piece, Jeffrey Kluger*, also wrote Lost Moon (a book-turned-film, titled “Apollo 13”, starring Tom Hanks playing the role of famed astronaut James Lovell)....
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 10, 2009 | News
Online Courses.org just released this terrific list of trusted search engines for science, aptly titled: 100 Extremely Useful Search Engines for Science.
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 2, 2009 | News
Check out these short articles on why researchers think that counting money makes people feel better, and how giving caffeine to babies can cause lifelong sleep and breathing problems. Found them while searching for recent discoveries online. I’m going to give a...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 2, 2009 | Dr. John Reports, In the News, Interviews, News
Indulge me (Dr. John Ohab) for just a moment and check out this new story, Armed and Scientific, just released by UCLA Magazine. I was recently interviewed for the “Quick Takes” series, which highlights former students and their work since graduating from...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 26, 2009 | John-the-Tourist, News, video
John-the-Tourist writes: Getting information on how individual neurons fire was, until recently, nearly impossible in animals moving around because the detection devices were too delicate. In the October 14, 2009 edition of Nature, a team of neuroscientists have...
