Homer every day

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From TED: John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost

Check out my neurons getting connected

Seeing a brain as it learns to see

DURHAM, N.C. -- A brain isn't born fully organized. It builds its abilities through experience, making physical connections between neurons and organizing circuits to store and retrieve information in milliseconds for years afterwards.
Now that process has been caught in the act for the first time by a Duke University research team that watched a naïve brain organize itself to interpret images of motion.
"This is the first time that anyone has been able to watch as visual experience selectively shapes the functional properties of individual neurons," said David Fitzpatrick, professor of neurobiology and director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. "These results emphasize just how important experience is for the early development of brain circuits." The group's findings appear online Oct. 22 in the journal Nature.
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Great web tool: Easy abs

If you ever want to organize a conference, the whole submission/review process can de done online and for free. There are several website which offer such services and now Linguistlist.org also lauched one: Easy Abs. Nice to see that LinguistList keeps going strong and providing useful services for linguists worldwide. If you are not a subscriber (again, free), become one now. I recommend the digest mode, but you can receive individual e-mails too.

A nerd goes to a nightclub

If you like good music

Staying alive

Why 'Stayin' Alive' could literally save your life: Disco song has perfect rhythm to jump-start a heart, says doctor

By Daily Mail Reporter

'Stayin' Alive' might be more true to its name than the Bee Gees ever could have guessed: At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart.
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