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I miss West Wing. I miss smart writing. I miss being able to talk about politics whether I agreed with you or not.

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Images produced with Diffusion spectrum magnetic resonance imaging (DSI) a new tool developed by Van J Wedeen. Here’s an interview, and here’s a slide show.

Random fact: These methods capture six dimensions of information (three spatial and three about water diffusion) to create the images.

So we’re getting really good at drawing images of the brain’s elaborate connectome. Now if only we can start drawing more realistic conclusions about how it all relates to our biology and eventually our personalities. This is an incredibly cool technique that is simplifying our view of brain structure, while at the same time complicating our view of brain biology.

This is some fascinating technology — it’s awesome in that it helps us understand ourselves while producing what many would consider to be art.

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Nerds rule! High school Battlestar Galactica fans design a Viper flight-sim

Four high school students and an eighth-grader are working on a Battlestar Galactica-themed flight simulator for submission in the 2012 Maker Faire. Sam DeRose, Joseph DeRose, John Boyer, Alex Jacobson, and Sam Frank say their Viper replica is just the latest in a series of increasingly elaborate submissions to the Faire, all of which can be seen on The Viper Project”s official website. They’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to help cover some of the projects’ costs, though they’re also fortunate enough to have a few corporate sponsors, and the boys have just over fifty days to pull it off. source

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I would have LOVED to work on a project like this while in high school (or younger!).