Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions →
In the late 1800s, a group of German researchers identified other regions of the cortex, each having distinct types of cells packed together in unique ways. In 1907, Korbinian Brodmann published a catalog of 52 brain regions.
On Wednesday, in what many experts are calling a milestone in neuroscience, researchers published a spectacular new map of the brain, detailing nearly 100 previously unknown regions — an unprecedented glimpse into the machinery of the human mind.
Seems like quite an upgrade. Exciting.
Happy 4th of July.
How American Politics Went Insane →
Populism, individualism, and a skeptical attitude toward politics are all healthy up to a point, but America has passed that point. Political professionals and parties have many shortcomings to answer for—including, primarily on the Republican side, their self-mutilating embrace of anti-establishment rhetoric—but relentlessly bashing them is no solution. You haven't heard anyone say this, but it's time someone did: Our most pressing political problem today is that the country abandoned the establishment, not the other way around.
I still believe in man in spite of man.
— Elie Wiesel
Refugees in Greece need internet so badly that they'll stop a riot to let the WiFi guys work →
Power in the camps is also a constant problem. [...] The team [placed] a sticker on every wire connecting the WiFi access points with the following words in Arabic: "if you remove this, the internet will go down." The hope was that even in a refugee camp, no one wanted to be that guy.
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Editor's Note: Not our first NetGear domain.
It's two years later and their user account passwords are still in plaintext. And these guys make routers. Where, you know, security is important and stuff.
Replaced my router, tripled my speeds.
Amazon's really serious about not making a profit; of course I'll pay less to have it delivered six days earlier.
How America Lost Its Mojo →
If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice might be something more like, "Move back home, young man." Americans today are strangely averse to change. They are less likely to switch jobs, or move between states, or create new companies than they were 30 years ago. In economist-speak, "the U.S. labor market has experienced marked declines in fluidity along a variety of dimensions." In English: America has lost its mojo. Manifest Destiny has yielded to manifest dormancy.
A guy trained a machine to "watch" Blade Runner. Then things got seriously sci-fi. →
Warner had just DMCA'd an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn't distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.