Consciousness: Signals in the Noise
StartFragment In February’s blog post, "How your Brain is Like an Ant Colony", we discussed how neural networks follow the concept of...
Transposons: The Improvisers Inside Your Brain
Even if you from time to time think about your neurons, those little chemical-electrical switches that dictate your mental and physical...
The Anatomy of Emotion
What is fear made of? In his book Self Comes to Mind, Antonio Demasio describes emotions as complex, largely automated neural programs of...
Suicide: a Stark Truth
StartFragment Suicide: the word itself is sobering. In the U.S., there are 38,000 suicides a year. This makes it one of the top ten...
Old science and new horizons
The human brain is one of the true wonders of the world; after all, it contained the source material for building each of the seven...
Caffeine, Friend or Foe?
One thing's for sure: Americans love their coffee. According to the National Coffee Association, we drink an average of 3.1 cups a day...