neuroscience

The Biggest School Bully

Submitted by papertalker on Apr 14, 2009, 05:04 PM
I am posting this essay because, written a year or so after Columbine, it rings true now more than ever.

As violence erupts, kids are left to their own devices-- the ones with the guns and the pent-up anger lash out for ?attention? and ?take control? because they?ve been helpless victims of bullying or familial abuse. The other kids stand by like proverbial deer frozen in the headlights. Neither their peers nor adults at school can be trusted. The code of silence is not just for kids. It's school culture?s state of the art. Administrations come down hard with the lid when violence erupts, but there is no desire to dig for the root causes. Why? Because down deep they know that life at their school is a big part of the problem.

 

Your Own Personal Supercomputer

Submitted by michael_ansel on Feb 03, 2009, 02:21 PM
As part of Cathy Davidson's class, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet", at Duke University, we have been discussing the brain, its functionality, and its ability to adapt to changing circumstances and even traumatic situations. It is interesting to note that, despite our tendency to think linearly, our brain is actually processing everything in a massively parallel system. Here is a quick comparison between standard computer processors (non-parallel), graphics processors (parallel), and the brain (massively parallel).

You mean I need to make up my mind?

Submitted by megosfar on Jan 31, 2009, 02:58 PM

 

HASTAC III.  ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.?
This blog is part of a series of blogs leading up to the third annual HASTAC conference, which will be held April 19-21, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the theme ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.? As the theme suggests, the gathering will focus on the exploration of new territory and on work that crosses, manipulates, or simply ignores traditional boundaries. The conference program will include presentations of research, performances, technology demonstrations, posters, panel discussions, and ?virtual? participation via telepresence technology.  For more information, contact HASTAC3@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

A (Virtual) Material Turn in Grid Computing?

Submitted by jed on Sep 26, 2008, 03:37 PM

This month marks the activation of CERN?s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva.  As one of the major enabling technologies for managing the large amount of data generated by the LHC, Grid Computing has also returned as a topic of interest. In her intr

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Games for Health Conference, Game Accessibility and Virtual Worlds Preconference

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on May 10, 2008, 04:10 PM

I've posted information about the recent Games for Health conference, inluding a link to my pre-conference presentation slides, on the TechPsych blog.  My talk focused on game accessibi

Your Brain on Art, next Wed., Duke

Submitted by Steve Burnett on May 02, 2008, 11:18 AM
Saw this all-day panel Your Brain on Art: Probing Neuroaesthetics, Wed May 7 at the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, thought I would mention it. I am planning to attend.