Can you hear your own brain? Of course, you cannot. I nevertheless find myself returning to this fascinating play of thought. We often talk of “brain waves”. This is most likely inspired by the old images of electroencephalographs (“EEG”) that recorded electrical voltage changes straight from a ...
Ever wondered why so many people are investing lots of hours into social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Blogs, vying for some more "friends", "followers", comments or clicks? It's long been assumed that the reason is our evolutionary history. Whether we are studying obtaining food, organizing ...
Since the start of the space age, technology development has been hampered by one major problem: The launch cost per unit of payload mass has always been prohibitively high. This very effectively dissuades users from developing large orbital applications. Because there are no large applications to be launched, there is no strong ...
In this last of five Nature Videos from this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Physiology and Medicine Nobel laureate Oliver Smithies talks with Diego Bohórquez from Duke University (USA) about being hungry for knowledge. ...
By the end of this year we will know whether Higgs bosons exist, as the director of CERN claimed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 28/07/2011. Since my youth, when I graduated in the field of particle physics, I have been aware of the hypothesis that such a particle should exist. It was at the time when the importance of so-called ...
If you plan to direct a movie with a realistic visual migraine aura, tell your people to call my people and we'll do lunch. If you are Edmund Messina, or any other a practicing neurologist and filmmaker call me directly: +493143028948. Edmund produced and directed Life and Migraine . A brief synopsis : ...
This episode is a converation with Dieter Schimanski, the Operations Manager of the European Transonic Windtunnel . In late June of 2011 I had the chance to visit the facility. The episode starts out with a one hour conversation about aerodynamics and the concepts behind the ETW. The rest of the episode is essentially an audio ...
1 February 2012 |
