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For Giusy...

should we buy this to educate behaviour at ACT meetings ... or only for our babies :-) 

new interesting neuroscience article ... how can we learn from this for AI?

> how can we learn from this for AI? After reading the abstract only... it appears a bit too low-level to be relevant...

interesting currently only for some of you .... sorry for the others

"environments that afford them a wide range of microbial exposures, such as traditional farms" == Noordwijk? In my former place we had horses and spiders but I don't know if that's enough to make it a farm...

something for Camilla and Tobias ...

very nice paper ... 

Controlling Locomotion and Behavior in Real-Time

Want to play football with paramecia?

Interesting lab: very young and still in building up / recruiting phase: "Our lab started officially February 2010 - and we are looking for new members! "

A group of proteins that act as the body's built-in line of defense against invading bacteria use a molecular trick to induce bacteria to destroy themselves...

We present the application of Principal Component Analysis for data acquired during the design of a natural gesture interface. We investigate the concept of an eigengesture for motion capture hand gesture data and present the visualisation of principal components obtained in the course of conducted experiments. We also show the influence of dimensionality reduction on reconstructed gesture data quality.

Kary Mullis offers a radical new way to treat infectious diseases as the effectiveness of our current antibiotics wanes

The thing I like about it is that, if I got it right, the last flu infection you had may safe your live once you get cancer... Similar holds for any kind of infection, as long as you got immune to a specific virus and the doctors are able to identify (and reproduce) the virus to which you are immune.

Researchers led by Ronald A. DePinho (above), a Harvard Medical School professor of genetics, say their work shows for the first time a dramatic reversal of many aspects of age-related degeneration in mice, a milestone in aging science achieved by engineering mice with a controllable telomerase gene. T

I would not yet volunteer ....

can we contribute in any way to this - or alternatively benefit from this research already now?

that bad! wow ....

You know me, I'm the bullshitter... You remember Kurzweil and his Singularity-nonsense. In a way this was very similar. Though I think Kurzweil and Markram are very different characters (The Singularity essentially is a religion, I can't see anything like that in Markram's claims) they seem to share an important point: they are both complete nerds that apparently never spent a single thought on the limits of science (in its English meaning) in general nor of their particular research field in specific. One may find this excusable, I don't. But even then, they make claims that the nerdest nerd must know that they are completely unrealistic and thus I just have to assume that they claim their nonsense on purpose. The reason in Markram's case clearly seems to be money. But all this does not mean that these nerds cannot produce valuable results.

Another futuristic view on flying by Airbus. To make it more sexy it also includes some biomimetics...

"The cabin electrical system can be compared to the human brain, with a network of intelligence pulsating through the cabin.". Oh, come on, ...

if we were able to continuously look at our brain activity we could improve our way to use the mind

Here, we show that fluorescent proteins4, 5 in cells are a viable gain medium for optical amplification, and report the first successful realization of biological cell lasers based on green fluorescent protein (GFP).

Finally some applied research, that is...

1000$ DNA sequencing costs - what you never wanted to know about your DNA ....

A rain forest vine has evolved dish-shaped leaves to attract the bats that pollinate it, scientists have found. Tests revealed that the leaves were supremely efficient at bouncing back the sound pulses the flying mammals used to navigate. When the leaves were present the bats located the plant twice as quickly as when these echoing leaves were removed.