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Last login: 2 weeks agoRieraci: Ron is a 58 year old married guy from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.; Likes 13,245 pages, 61 videos, 144 photos • 346 fans • Received 80 reviews; Member since Oct 13, 2004

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CMU computer program reads human mind - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Jun 2, 2:51pm 1 review neuroscience
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_570102.html; Carnegie Mellon University scientists are training a computer to decode the human mind.
"Imagine somebody who is completely immobilized, a quadriplegic, who can't talk," said co-author Marcel Just, a neuroscientist and director of CMU's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. "They could think a thought and maybe the machine could figure out what it is."
The work expands on a separate study the same team published earlier this year showing that people's brains activate similarly when they think about the same word.

The Scientist : The man behind the peas [23rd May 2008 04:06 PM GMT]: May 25, 7:56pm 2 reviews genetics, science
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/54676/; The legend of Mendel's pea-crossing experiments is infamous in the annals of science, but the man behind the peas remains little appreciated. Damn that Darwin!

Hybrids, Other Embryo Research Laws Debated in U.K.: May 20, 6:24pm 1 review biotech
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080519-AP-hybrids.html; British lawmakers voted on Monday to approve controversial plans to allow the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for stem cell research.
Prime Minister Brown has said he believes scientists seeking to use human-animal hybrid embryos to treat diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's are on a moral mission to improve and possibly save millions of lives.
But opposition Conservative lawmaker Edward Leigh said "In many ways we are like children playing with land mines without any concept of the dangers of the technology that we are handling."

AFP: Extinct Tasmanian tiger gene brought back to life: scientists: May 20, 6:14pm 1 review genetics
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jeOdbG39DRy-kkbCIuUs3uLSQnYw; Scientists said Tuesday they had "resurrected" a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger by implanting it in a mouse, raising the future possibility of bringing animals such as dinosaurs back to life.
Why? Isn't extinction God's way of saying "next?"

Photo Gallery: May 18, 4:36pm 1 review hockey
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/photogallery/pittsburghtrib_ne...; Sens, Rangers, Flyers...next!

... - Yahoo! News Photos: May 17, 12:47pm 1 review history
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Ferdinand-Magellan/photo/080515/480/61207aec0c2...; The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.

Ferdinand Magellan was seeking the so-called spice islands, now part of Indonesia, and his course took him north of that goal.

But the route may have been dictated by mild conditions and favorable winds during an El Nino, anthropologists Scott M. Fitzpatrick of North Carolina State University and Richard Callaghan of the University of Calgary, Canada, propose in a new study of his trip.