"Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple's "intelligent personal assistant" on the iPhone, is currently his BFF. Obsessed with weather formations, Gus had spent the hour parsing the difference between isolated and scattered thunderstorms - an hour in which, thank God, I didn't have to discuss them."

"What do you see when you look at this picture? Three young, attractive humans? Look closer."

"Two University of Texas, Houston, graduate students created a claymation video to illustrate how synapses (connections between nerve cells in the brain) grow stronger over time. The video also features video games and earned Julia Hill and Natalia Rozas both third place and the People's Choice Award in the 2011 Brain Awareness Video Contest. "

"Here's a little film I did about my research. Hope you enjoy it!"

"3D animation of a neuron and an action potential. Ion channels in the soma open and allow an increase in the intracellular voltage. Once the voltage reaches a threshold, an action potential is generated, which travels the length of the axon and passes into the terminals. The voltage in the terminals stimulate the release of neurotransmitters which cross the synapse, opening ion channels in dendrites of the post-synaptic neuron and increasing the voltage of the second neuron."

"Short video on how neurons work. This animation details the ion movement across the cell membranes."

"3d animation of a neural network with zoom into a synapse and release of a neurotransmitter."

"Mapping the human brain is an endeavor several TED speakers have already begun embarking on. Here, a look at talks about how this mapping can take place - and why it's a scientific priority."

"That's hashtag Harlem Shake for those of you who haven't yet had the life sucked out of you by the infinite black vortex that is Twitter yet."

"Two years after the Arab Spring, questions still remain as to how much social media actually helped fuel and drive the uprisings that arose in Tunisia and swept across the region. But regardless of what happened during those Twitter-fueled revolutions, what's happened afterward?"

"We all have times in our lives when we just have too much stuff going on. There are always deadlines, exams, due dates and just too many priorities to juggle. And when everything is going wrong, the world is screaming for your attention and you just don't have time - the last thing you need to hear is to "just take a day off". So here are 55 gentle ways you can take care of yourself when you're pressed for time and attention. Enjoy!  "

"When you give feedback the right way, you focus on the behavior, not the person. There's a simple 4-step process that works well. It helps you stay calm and use language that makes it more likely the person will listen to your message."

"When you give feedback the right way, you focus on the behavior, not the person"

"Image is powerful. A universal language of sorts, images evoke emotion, can mobilise the masses and even change the course of history. But, images are representations, not reality. And representations of what our culture deems as beautiful or not can have a profound impact on our lives."

"Employee engagement is far different from employee satisfaction and measures much more of real value to an organization, such as how well the employee understands the goals of the organization and how committed he or she is to giving discretionary effort to achieve those goals."

"By combining the linguistic analysis systems of TweetPsych with Twitter's geo tagging data (which isn't great yet) and the Google Maps API, I was able to plot tweets on specific latitude and longitude codes based on their emotional content."

"Teachers who tap into their pupils' emotions to create a caring, welcoming classroom are likely to get the best results, new research suggests."

Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey.  Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.  If you never got around to taking it, it's too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take it for fun here.

"Dianne Backwell was a psychology student at La Trobe University in 1973. She took part in controversial obedience tests modelled on the infamous Milgram experiments conducted at Yale University in the early sixties. On the orders of a tutor, Dianne had to give what she thought were electric shocks to her fellow student. Even after finding out that there were no shocks, she still suffers to this day about taking part in the experiment."