October 2011
Army Treats PTSD With Virtual Dreams
Decoding the Mind's Eye
Of course, the brain is no camcorder, and we can't just extract the recordings of the mind's eye. At least, not yet. But scientists at UC Berkeley are getting awfully close.
BioCurious Opens In the Bay Area for DIY Biotechs
Have you ever had the desire to experiment in a biology lab, replete with all of the necessary tech and equipment? Were you the kind of kid that wanted to try tons of things in the science class labs that were not on the worksheet? Do your hobbies include experimenting with genetic splices? If the answer to any of these is yes (or even ”sure”), you may be excited to learn about DIYBio, a new organization that is designed to attract and support “citizen scientists” as they dabble in the fields of biology and biotechnology. An outgrowth of DIYBio has been BioCurious, a Sunnyvale, CA organization that has mixed the openness and networking from DIYBio into a physical space where people in the Bay Area community can work with equipment, under a code of ethics and a community of experts, and collaborate on others’ ideas and projects in a collaborative atmosphere.
Brain Imaging Shows We're Hardwired for Optimism
Magnetic Fields
I love the band the Magnetic Fields, but I don't know anything about magnetic fields. So I thought I would do a bit of research and talk about these little guys in a way that even music nerds could understand.
Electric fields are present in everything. Although these fields once were just a theory, a scientist named Michael Faraday hypothesized these fields to be fact and proved them to be real in nature. Modern day scientists have not only given these electromagnetic fields equations, but they have also found them to be more prevalent in nature. Also, scientists fear that electromagnetic fields found in everyday appliances could play a dangerous part in the health of humans.