Brain Basics in Text Symbol Pictures
So I looked at fear last week and I will examine memory and trauma next. Before that, it will be useful to review how the brain works in a nutshell. […]
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This is Your Brain on Fear
For something so awkward and squishy-looking, the brain is a deliciously complex and efficient thing that commands and controls everything about us. In the spirit of Halloween, I look today […]
Lasers: Guns and Forcefields
How do lasers work (including an attempt to explain an Einstein theory using the word “tickle”)? What’s the latest on laser weapons? Is it possible to construct a laser forcefield […]
Skyscrapers (Part 2 of 2)
The reserve of the Western world since the early 15th century, the Tallest-Manmade-Thing-in-the-World (TMTW) Baton has been passed around the Eastern Hemisphere for the last 15 years. And these things […]
Skyscrapers (Part 1 of 2)
I was getting ready to go to my morning ethics class. 9/11/2001 evokes the same question for our generation that the shooting of JFK did for the previous one: where were […]
Cities
Most of us have been in one. Most of us live in one. According to the UN, 54 percent of the world’s population live in urban areas this year. By […]
Where the 7 Billion Are and How Pictures of Nighttime Lights Can Be Useful
There are seven billion people in the world. Where is everybody, really?
