Thursday, September 04, 2003

Headline seen on Yahoo "Jobless Claims Up, Other Signs Brighter"  That Wall Street bunch certainly are a bunch of cheap labor optimists, aren't they? 9:47:43 PM    comment []

Measuring brain function NPR has a neat story about functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) being used to map the brain.  Before fMRI scanning was used, neuroscientists used people who lacked an ability, and then tried to extrapolate which regions of the brain would be used to perform that ability.  Through using this new technique, researchers have learned that the brain doesn't necessarily work in bit parts.  In fact, it seems that there are separate functions in the brain cells, which work in conjunction with each other to create, transmit, and store information.  Researchers have also learned that brains sort information into categories.  (Hence it could be argued that all learned information "bits" are relative to one another.)  Text to the story isn't available yet, but if you scroll down on the linked page, you can listen to the story on Real Player or Windows Media Player. 9:45:14 PM    comment []

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