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POPSGood Collection of Talks on Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy Useful in conceptually mapping our way around some of the big ideas associated with neuroscience. Damasio, as ever, particularly helpful. More than a nod towards complexityu and emergence with the sunsequent necessity of reworking the conceptual apparatus that reflects upon itself and concepts.
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POPS10 Amazing clips from the life sciences 1. "Building Body Parts from Scratch Last week, regenerative medicine researchers announced that they have grown a new windpipe for a woman who was crippled by tuberculosis. Years ago, other scientists were able to make bladders, from scratch, and implant them in children with malformed urinary tracts. This video shows some amazing footage from two tissue engineering labs'.
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POPSOne More Time for the Learning Impaired It always helps to reiterate for the scientific challanged among us (and in the US that's a majority of the population) the difference between law, theory, guess and wishful thinking. Pay attention people, my patience is running out. And yes, you'll have to read the whole article to reap it's rewards. Learning does have it's costs so ante up! Don't let ignorance keep you sounding like a complete idiot.