Lex Fridman has interviewed the team at Neuralink and discuss technology, design & modelling challenges of creating a natural & intuitive brain-computer interface (BCI) experience. This podcast goes deep behind …
Scientists decode brain signals that recognises images
Scientists from the University of Washington have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception for the first time — enabling the scientists to predict which images patients were …
Animation showing all known Exoplanets
The space observatory ‘Kepler‘ launched by NASA to identify Earth-like planets in March 2009 has found just over 1700 planets to date. This to-scale animation shows those identified planets and …
Scientific journal Nature makes all its academic papers free for the Public
Macmillan Science & Education will allow the public to access its treasure chest of rich scientific research was announced today. Articles on nature.com will be made widely available to read and …
Wanderers, a short film by Erik Wernquist
I stumbled across this short film by Erik Wernquist this weekend. It was a film featured in Vimeo’s Staff Picks Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik …
Business books of the Decade by the FT
The Financial Times has created a micro-site which lists the best business books of the Decade across a number of areas including History, Economics, Behavioural Science, Technology, Innovation and others. …
ESA Rosetta Philea lands on Comet!
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae lander from the Rosetta space mission has finally landed on the P67 Comet a few minutes ago! Amazing! #67P at 08:21 UT during #CometLanding …
TED video of Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s …
What is etymology and folk-etymology?
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Through old texts and comparison with other languages, etymologists reconstruct the history of words – when they entered a language, from …
NASA’s Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Since the dawn of the space age, unmanned spacecraft have flown blind with little or no ability to make autonomous decisions based on the content of the …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
The night sky is perhaps dimming further over time
I came across this interesting article by researchers with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington, who have discovered the amount of sunlight hitting the ground over China dropped by …
Barry Schwartz and The Paradox of Choice
Mark Hurst has written an informative summary of his conversation with Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, a new book which discusses excessive choice, choice overload, anxiety, and …
The human & dog genome project leads to identification of epilepsy gene
A BBC article, which references a Science Magazine journal, comments on how a faulty gene in dogs has been identified as that which causes epilepsy in dogs. The identified gene …
Science Magazine on preventing future Ocean Tsunamis
Science Magazine has published an article that looks at some of the scientific clues from the Indian Ocean Tsunami that could help and aid in the preventure of future quakes …