Neuroscience
Derek Lowe of the In The Pipeline pharma blog has stirred up a surprisingly polarized debate over staged lab photos that feature coloured spotlights on test tubes in darkened labs. These cliché and absurd images do a disservice to the researchers they're meant to represent, he argues. Read his two posts (with dozens of comments) on the topic: Memo to the Public Relations Department, and More Purple Radiance.
There's a counterpart to those spotlights. Brains are often represented in a dark background with light emanating from within. Glowing like the dawn of a new era. And then a subgenre of glowing brains: lightning bolts. Nobody tell them the brain only uses about 15 watts. These could jump start your car. But they're fun images too.
Best – a sparkly animated glowing brain!
This has made me realize I ought to change my profile image. There is no actual brain in the photo and the lightning in the sculpture is not meant to be internal sparks from firing neurons, but the cliche lurks. Hmm.
Here's a brain that glows (without being a transgenic pig/jellyfish).
Sadly, it has no electrical discharge.
Tags: brain art neuroart
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Neuroscience
Glowing brains
Derek Lowe of the In The Pipeline pharma blog has stirred up a surprisingly polarized debate over staged lab photos that feature coloured spotlights on test tubes in darkened labs. These cliché and absurd images do a disservice to the researchers they're meant to represent, he argues. Read his two posts (with dozens of comments) on the topic: Memo to the Public Relations Department, and More Purple Radiance.
There's a counterpart to those spotlights. Brains are often represented in a dark background with light emanating from within. Glowing like the dawn of a new era. And then a subgenre of glowing brains: lightning bolts. Nobody tell them the brain only uses about 15 watts. These could jump start your car. But they're fun images too.
Best – a sparkly animated glowing brain!
This has made me realize I ought to change my profile image. There is no actual brain in the photo and the lightning in the sculpture is not meant to be internal sparks from firing neurons, but the cliche lurks. Hmm.
Here's a brain that glows (without being a transgenic pig/jellyfish).
Sadly, it has no electrical discharge.
Tags: brain art neuroart
- Glowing Pill Caps
A glowing light embedded in a pill bottle cap alerts users to take their pills at assigned times. The caps can also send email or call a cell in an urgent situation, and can automatically alert the consumer's pharmacy of refills when they are due....
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Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Dos and don’ts of a January detox As we start a new year, David Robson at BBC Future takes a scientific look at how to get healthier 'Detoxing' has been debunked....
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...Science, that is. The latest example of declining standards in that tabloid is (you guessed it) a new fMRI study, described as a highlight of the May 18 issue: Who Gets the Credit? In working backward from outcomes to behavior or in strategic planning...
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Though the headline and subhead they use are unfortunately over-dramatic, this from the BBC:'Thoughts read' via brain scans The researchers monitored activity in the brain. Scientists say they have been able to monitor people's thoughts via...