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Donald In Mathmagic Land, 1959

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Undulatus Asperatus

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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

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Yoji Kuri, early 70s

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This interactive chart will show you when and how you’re most likely to die

Statistician Nathan Yau has created an interactive chart to determine, in his words, “how and when you will die, given your sex, race and age.” Fun! To create his chart, Yau used data from the CDC’s Underlying Cause of Death Database. Once you enter your sex, race and age, the chart will kick into motion.

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Something cheerful to weather the blizzard (if you are lucky enough to be experiencing it!)

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X-ray vision for robots

#‎NSF-funded‬ UC Santa Barbara researchers are using wifi to give robots x-ray vision! Applications include search & rescue and smart home systems. We’re featuring a “Science Today” podcast about the research on the Science360 Radio home page: 1.usa.gov/1lH6LCp

Ph.D. student researcher Saandeep Depatla is inside the brick walls. As you can see by the image below on the right, the bots are able to image his presence. Find out more about this research here: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~ymostofi/SeeThroughImaging.html

Credit: UC Santa Barbara

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Dense Mixed-Media Sculptures Depict a Poignant Collision of Urban and Natural Worlds

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(via Visitors Flocking To Japan To See Rare ‘Monkey-Faced’ Orchids)

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Silence by Adam Smok

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New Brain Cell Formation and Long-Term Memory Enhanced by Running

New study in mice in the inaugural issue of Brain Plasticity reports that new brain cell formation is enhanced by running.

Exercise can enhance the development of new brain cells in the adult brain, a process called adult neurogenesis. These newborn brain cells play an important role in learning and memory. A new study has determined that mice that spent time running on wheels not only developed twice the normal number of new neurons, but also showed an increased ability to distinguish new objects from familiar objects. These results are published in the first issue of Brain Plasticity.

“Our research indicates that exercise-induced increase in neurogenesis improves pattern separation by supporting unique and detailed long-term representations of similar but nevertheless different memory items. Pattern separation is involved in many memory tasks of everyday life. For example, when learning the game of chess, it is critically important to remember the different shapes of pieces like the pawn and bishop. Similarly, remembering the precise pattern of pieces on the board during a previously successful opening or endgame may decide who will win or lose,” explained lead investigator Josef Bischofberger, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel (Switzerland).

“Running Improves Pattern Separation during Novel Object Recognition” by Bolz, Leoni, Heigele, Stefanie, and Bischofberger, Josef in Brain Plasticity. Published online October 9 2015 doi:10.3233/BPL-150010

As rodents prefer to spend more time with novel objects than familiar ones, the researchers first exposed the mice to two identical objects for habituation (cones or pyramids) and later measured the animals attention towards a novel object with different shape. Credit: Josef Bischofberger, University of Basel.