March 2012
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Click this link to see Google do something really... →
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Watchthedailywhat:
Film By Numbers of the Day: ABCs Of Cinema illustrator Evan Seitz tackles Numbers in Film in his latest animated movie knowledge quiz. How many titles can you name?
[thd.]
It’s really annoying me that I can’t get #3.
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Scientists claim brain memory code cracked →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2012) — Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while memories last lifetimes. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and hard-wired at a deeper, finer-grained molecular scale.
In an article in the March 8...
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science tumbled: Not Explaining a Visual Illusion →
science:
Not Explaining a Visual Illusion
This is the Hermann grid illusion. It’s a very well-known and simple optical illusion. When you look at the intersections of the white lines, you see illusory dark blobs.
The standard explanation for this has to do with retinal ganglion cells. These cells pool information from several rod and cone cells in the retina and transmit it to the brain. The...
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