Todd Gillette
Neuroscience Researcher and Curator
Full Title: “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight …
Full Title: “Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation”
This book was substantially enlightening and yet amazingly …
“Reamde” is a story centering on the inventor of an immensely popular and successful massively multiplayer online role playing game …
Survivor’s Quest is a story in the Star Wars universe focused on an expedition by a combination of parties including …
This book is surprisingly good in its ability to reach both the lay reader (for at least the first half) …
When one ponders the possibilities of the future of robotics and “artificial” intelligence (perhaps more properly “synthetic intelligence” once we’ve actually got it figured out), one usually looks to hard science fiction books. Isaac Asimov in particular comes to mind.
A few movies have done an ok job, including the interesting but also very flawed “I, Robot” with Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan, and Terminator: Salvation…. Both were at least decent movies, but neither felt particularly realistic and both tried to pull on our emotions in fairly obvious ways that felt anything but organic… more
The monthly Mind Guild will meet again Tuesday July 8th in the Conference Room (222) of the Krasnow Institute for …
The story: Fed whistleblower secretly recorded 46 hours of regulatory capture inside Goldman Sachs
From the piece:
The Fed had vowed to …
A group at Princeton recently completed a study (to be published this Fall of 2014) that shows pretty definitively that …
We have a problem of corruption here in the United States (see other posts in this section) with multiple causes …
When one ponders the possibilities of the future of robotics and “artificial” intelligence (perhaps more properly “synthetic intelligence” once we’ve actually got it figured out), one usually looks to hard science fiction books. Isaac Asimov in particular comes to mind.
A few movies have done an ok job, including the interesting but also very flawed “I, Robot” with Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan, and Terminator: Salvation…. Both were at least decent movies, but neither felt particularly realistic and both tried to pull on our emotions in fairly obvious ways that felt anything but organic… more
Between gifts cards, credit cards, and old health insurance cards, I’ve got a far bit of plastic in …
On The Media released a handbook for how to treat media reports, particularly during and immediately following a major event. …
Twice in one week to people I know? Yep, it’s time for a PSA. No need to freak out, but …
A perfect example of science and fun! Ever wonder how a cat is able to flip over so quickly and …
While this latest research is a proof of concept, it’s a pretty impressive and important one. Scientists started out putting …
Full Title: “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight …
For a good laugh, or perhaps a sigh of recognition and resignation, see Jorge Cham’s take on the writing process …
For those not already familiar with the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, if you follow …
When one ponders the possibilities of the future of robotics and “artificial” intelligence (perhaps more properly “synthetic intelligence” once we’ve actually got it figured out), one usually looks to hard science fiction books. Isaac Asimov in particular comes to mind.
A few movies have done an ok job, including the interesting but also very flawed “I, Robot” with Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan, and Terminator: Salvation…. Both were at least decent movies, but neither felt particularly realistic and both tried to pull on our emotions in fairly obvious ways that felt anything but organic… more
