Most recently I had the idea to use some voice detection technology for speech analysis at science conferences. It seems that also others had this idea before Continue reading $7.99 to detect a lying scientist?
Great tips from Hugh MacLeod
1. Ignore everybody.
2. The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours.
3. Put the hours in. Continue reading Ignore everybody
Two new exciting papers about Jewish ancestry in the AJHG and Nature probably missed some of the background. As another blogger noted
It is remarkable that Jews have maintained a tangible cultural identity through those 26 centuries of dispersion, and perhaps even more remarkable that genetic studies now show they have maintained a substantial genetic identity as well.
Here is the answer – sharing faith and music. Continue reading Hallelujah
Playing For Change: Song Around the World “Stand By Me” from Playing For Change
Mozart over Beethoven.
Wide over narrow.
Intelligence over beauty.
Grace over judgement.
Rough over smooth.
Night over day.
Water over wine.
Paper over screen.
Pictures over Words.
Heat over cold.
Belief over belief.
Mountains over beach.
Stars over sun.
Jesus over religion.
Silence over noise.
Straight over bow.
Love over everything.
(inspired by Pearl)
Finally, a really important paper (at least for me ;-)
Here we show that habitually barefoot endurance runners often land on the fore-foot (fore-foot strike) before bringing down the heel, but they sometimes land with a flat foot (mid-foot strike) or, less often, on the heel (rear-foot strike).
The forefoot has lower collision forces! while the forces are excessive according to an earlier study. These new studies support the recent development of a running shoes (currently under development in Magdeburg) with no heel Continue reading Collison forces during distance running
What happens when looking at that video?
The neuroanatomy view this week in Nature
we predict[…] a macroscopic signal visible to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in humans. We then looked for this signal as participants explored a virtual reality environment, mimicking the rats’ foraging task: fMRI activation and adaptation showing a speed-modulated six-fold rotational symmetry in running direction. The signal was found in a network of entorhinal/subicular, posterior and medial parietal, lateral temporal and medial prefrontal areas. Continue reading Tear Down the Walls
It looks like a joke – a new molecule called intellectin. And there seems to be even a link to allergy Continue reading Intellectins
Youth is not a period of life. It’s a state of the spirit, it’s the product of a will. A quality of the imagination and an emotional intensity, it’s the victory of courage over shyness, of adventure over comfort. One doesn’t grow older for having lived a number of years. One gets older for having deserted an ideal. Continue reading Being young
— a quote of a new FM article entitled “Looking for you” that sees blogs as a form fo self-presentation on the internet (blogs btw show a dramatic increase of 1,4 new blogs every second worldwide). I haven’t seen blogging activity so much as Continue reading People are, in a sense, on stage