Lex Fridman has interviewed the team at Neuralink and discuss technology, design & modelling challenges of creating a natural & intuitive brain-computer interface (BCI) experience. This podcast goes deep behind …
A podcast on the Joys of being an absolute beginner – for life
Tom Vanderbilt from The Guardian has presented a nice podcast as part of The Guardian’s Long Reads, on the building of Experience as a beginner and learning using chess, sport …
Our human bias starts from the moment we are born
New research published by John Hopkins University shows that we actually start developing our human biases from much younger than was previously known, and that the choices we make (even …
Scientists decode brain signals that recognises images
Scientists from the University of Washington have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception for the first time — enabling the scientists to predict which images patients were …
Animation showing all known Exoplanets
The space observatory ‘Kepler‘ launched by NASA to identify Earth-like planets in March 2009 has found just over 1700 planets to date. This to-scale animation shows those identified planets and …
A beautifully written story by Oliver Sacks
The New York Times has published one of the most beautiful stories written by Oliver Sacks, on his impending death. It is incredible. Update: 31 Aug – Longford has posted some of …
Scientific journal Nature makes all its academic papers free for the Public
Macmillan Science & Education will allow the public to access its treasure chest of rich scientific research was announced today. Articles on nature.com will be made widely available to read and …
Wanderers, a short film by Erik Wernquist
I stumbled across this short film by Erik Wernquist this weekend. It was a film featured in Vimeo’s Staff Picks Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik …
ESA Rosetta Philea lands on Comet!
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae lander from the Rosetta space mission has finally landed on the P67 Comet a few minutes ago! Amazing! #67P at 08:21 UT during #CometLanding …
The size of Comet 67P
Nigel Hawtin from New Scientist shared this image with us today of Comet 67P compared with Downtown LA. :) comet #67P/ #Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the ground. pic.twitter.com/3ByhPM5bYS — michel (@quark1972) August 18, …
NASA’s Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Since the dawn of the space age, unmanned spacecraft have flown blind with little or no ability to make autonomous decisions based on the content of the …
Barry Schwartz and The Paradox of Choice
Mark Hurst has written an informative summary of his conversation with Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, a new book which discusses excessive choice, choice overload, anxiety, and …
The human & dog genome project leads to identification of epilepsy gene
A BBC article, which references a Science Magazine journal, comments on how a faulty gene in dogs has been identified as that which causes epilepsy in dogs. The identified gene …
Bacteria is genetically modified by lightning
New Scientist comments on how Bacteria can be genetically modified with lightning. The article interestingly suggests that bacteria frequently pick up foreign Genes.
Reading: Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything
I managed to last week buy a copy of Bill Bryson’s, A Short History of Nearly Everything, whilst on my way to Zurich, Switzerland. It’s one of those books that …
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