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Natalie Mitten

Snapshots explore Einstein's unusual brain : Nature News & Comment - 0 views

www.nature.com/...nstein-s-unusual-brain-1.11836

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  • anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee and her colleagues
  • pathologist Thomas Harvey
  • Einstein’s brain was smaller than average
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  • According to Sandra Witelson, a behavioural neuroscientist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, who discovered that the parietal operculum is missing from Einstein’s brain
Zaphron Richardson

New radiation treatment significantly increases survival rate, researchers find - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...121016125645.htm

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  • naturally occurring molecule found in coffee and blueberries
    • Zaphron Richardson
      Zaphron Richardson on 27 Feb 13
       
      What is the molecule??? And why does it naturally occur in blueberries and coffee?
  • Charles R. Yates, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and colleagues Duane Miller, Ph.D., and Waleed Gaber, Ph.D., from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Baylor College of Medicine
    • Zaphron Richardson
      Zaphron Richardson on 27 Feb 13
       
      reputable
Nick Noack

Tornadoes....Nature's Most Violent Storms - 1 views

www.nssl.noaa.gov/...tornadoguide.html

tornadoes weather tornado Science storms Natural Disasters nature

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    For essay
Natalie Mitten

Why Einstein Was a Genius - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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  • Thomas Harvey, permission to preserve the brain for scientific study. Harvey photographed the brain and then cut it into 240 blocks, which were embedded in a resinlike substance.
  • only six peer-reviewed publications resulted from these widely scattered materials
  • greater density of neurons in some parts of the brain and a higher than usual ratio of glia (cells that help neurons transmit nerve impulses) to neurons
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  • 2009 by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee,
  • But the Falk study was based on only a handful of photographs that had been previously made available by Harvey, who died in 2007.
  • several regions feature additional convolutions and folds rarely seen in other subjects.
  • and his prefrontal cortex—linked to planning, focused attention, and perseverance in the face of challenges—is also greatly expanded.
  • Albert Galaburda, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says that "what's great about this paper is that it puts down … the entire anatomy of Einstein's brain in great detail.
  • he study raises "very important questions for which we don't have an answer."
  • whether Einstein started off with a special brain that predisposed him to be a great physicist, or whether doing great physics caused certain parts of his brain to expand
  • "some combination of a special brain and the environment he lived in."
  • Falk agrees that both nature and nurture were probably involved
  • "he had the right brain in the right place at the right time."
Indea Armstrong

Eyes work without connection to brain: Ectopic eyes function without natural connection... - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130227183311.htm

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  • scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a direct neural connection to the brain.
    • Indea Armstrong
      Indea Armstrong on 07 Mar 13
       
      How does that work? How can you possibly use your eyes and they aren't connected to your brain?
  • Biologists at Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences used a frog model to shed new ligh
    • Indea Armstrong
      Indea Armstrong on 07 Mar 13
       
      How closely are humans related to frogs?
  • visual
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  • is the question of exactly how the brain recognizes that the electrical signals coming from tissue near the gut is to be interpreted as visual data
Sean Goodenough

National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaurs - 0 views

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  • Ornithodirans are part of the group Archosauria, or “ruling reptiles.” Archosaurs have two additional openings in their skull, one between the eye and nose (the antorbital fenestra), and another in the lower jaw (the mandibular fenestra).
    • Sean Goodenough
      Sean Goodenough on 11 Feb 13
       
      I never knew that the Omithodirans have variois wholes in ther skull besides the eyes, moth, nose and ears. But I would like to know why are thees extria holes used for? and whay exactily are they there.
Zaphron Richardson

Thyme may be better for acne than prescription creams - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...120327215951.htm

Thyme acne cure better than prescription natural

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  • Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Dublin
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      Zaphron Richardson on 20 Feb 13
       
      reliable
  • This process draws out the active compounds from the plant.
    • Zaphron Richardson
      Zaphron Richardson on 20 Feb 13
       
      What are the active compounds in thyme?
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