elves through graphical "avatars"
communicate both with other participants and with computer-based agents, enacting collaborative learning activities of various types
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"New Scientist tracks the evolution of our brain from its origin in ancient seas to its dramatic expansion in one ape - and asks why it is now shrinking."
A fscinating look into the nature of change and life. I'd consider this a version of evolution but at the scale of an individual and its life instead of a species.
Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.
This study, from the University of Texas, injected mice brains with brain tissue from an Alzheimer's disease patient.. The mice developed Alzheimer's disease pathology
Review of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Conference, ESCoNS, at the University of California San Francisco.
An attempt to unit neurologists and game designers.