A comprehensive guide to your brain, how it works, and how you can work with it. The Wizard of Oz always puzzled me as a child. If the scarecrow didn’t have a...

Filed under: Nintendo Wii Did you miss us last week? Well, we were just so darn busy with that E3 thing, we couldn't scrounge up enough time to do a recap post for you...

In a major step in understanding how the nervous system and the immune system interact, scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have identified a new...

As I have mentioned in the past, I am a huge fan of the power nap. For that matter, any nap is good but for the sake of this mini-tip, I am talking specifically about...

(Photo by Andrew Huff) This skeleton of melted audio cassette tapes was created by artist Brian Dettmer. Titled "Skull #11", we wouldv'e also accepted "Phantom of a...

Papers delivered at three conferences in the US and Europe this summer report on new research at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering...

Techcrunch announced they're going to build a web tablet device & part II - Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device....

In a major step in understanding how the nervous system and the immune system interact, scientists have identified a new anatomical path through which the brain and the...

A couple months ago, I talked about the slow rate of publication. I find the sloth-speed process irritating not so much because I am impatient -- though I am -- but...

SciMonkbling Evil Monkey has a post up at Neurotopia (Version 2.0) in which he rails against idiot reviewer comments found in the summary statements. These latter are the...

Filed under: misc hacks, news[Hungry_Myst] has put together this fantastic device to annoy your friends. It randomly emits high pitched sounds, then stops for a while to...

I've been a little scattered lately but I am starting to feel better. Sleep's been a little better (now I don't have my mid-sleep wake-up session until about 5...

New research into the treatment of Alzheimer's disease reports improvement in language abilities using a novel immune-based approach. A video accompanying the research,...

During my presentation at RubyFringe, I shared a question that has been swirling around in my brain for a while: Are IDE features really language smells? I don’t...

Kuron newb4b0's latest diary is an open invitation for all other members to engage in a bit of troll-sodomy just for the kicks-da-shit fun which can be derived from...

For decades, researchers have dreamed of creating robots with human-like abilities. Now an interdisciplinary team of European researchers has developed a robotic arm and...

I received a request from Tom Longley, Project Manager for Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS), a Geneva-based nonprofit. They're looking for...

For decades, television networks have relied on ratings to sell advertisements. Now, a company, NeuroFocus, studies the brain's responses to TV scenes and commercials to...

More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion....

More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program. While AA participants are reportedly notorious for their coffee drinking...