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My entry to the Exquisite Corpse of Science

By Lily | Published: July 30, 2009
Tim Jones at the Zoonomian blog is working on an Exquisite Corpse of Science. Sounds gruesome, but it doesn’t involve any dead organisms. An exquisite corpse is a Surrealist art technique for patching drawings together using simple rules. For the Exquisite Corpse of Science, the idea is to draw what you think is important in [...]
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The virtuous circle: technology enabling science

By Lily | Published: June 7, 2009
Yesterday I attended a talk by Rebecca Saxe on how the brain learns to conceptualize other people’s thoughts. Having dabbled in neuroscience, I love learning about new developments. During the talk, Rebecca mentioned that the experimental techniques she uses, fMRI (a way to measure brain activity) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (a way to affect brain [...]
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