Here’s the news story from ScienceInsider. The actual report [pdf] is here. Krasnow’s own Giorgio Ascoli is among the participants.
Author: jlolds
Native Angeleno, professor of Neuroscience and Public Policy at George Mason University
FT’s Clive Cookson visits MIT’s Media Lab
From today’s FT, here. There are times I think of the Media Lab as the modern cousin of Bell Labs what with the common focus on communications and the notion of physical proximity breeding fruitful collaborations. In the meantime, we have the challenge of trying to do something similar in the area of basic science…
Stephen Wolfram’s Facebook Analytics….on steroids…
The link is here. Should be of particular interest for our social complexity folks here at Krasnow. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan…
Yarden Katz’s excellent long interview with Noam Chomsky…
In the Atlantic, here. It’s from November of last year, but I just got to it. What’s great about the piece is that the interviewer is actually sophisticated enough to do a proper interview of Chomsky. And it’s great to get Chomsky talking about cognitive science instead of politics….
Age of constraints…
Here’s Robert Samuelson’s column in today’s WAPO. And here’s the home page for Abundance, the book that my friend Steve Kotler wrote with Peter Diamandis about a year ago.
What’s really interesting to me is that these two totally opposed word views are merrily co-existing in today’s memeosphere. Because they can’t both be correct…
Or can they?
Tracking climate change….every day
You can now track the daily CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, otherwise known as the Keeling curve, here.
The neurobiology of the itch response….
My Dad used to wonder about this….in his view, itching was behaviorally indistinguishable from reinforcement. Turns out there are specific sensory neurons for itching. The story is here. Still makes you wonder about the evolutionary selection pressures that produced them…
The Higher Ed debate continues…
Debt and Growth: a story of Excel coding errors leading to unemployment?
Perhaps in the near future my colleagues who are economists will have to buy malpractice insurance…
a good summary of what’s going on with the Reinhart and Rogoff paper can be found over at FT, here.
And here is my colleague Tyler Cowen’s view.
From the standpoint of data analysis and science though, there is an important case to be made here for publishing your data along with your conclusions…
Pasadena, Mars and Earth: long style science journalism at its best
Burkhard Bilger’s New Yorker piece about the Curiosity Rover here. Do not fail to read all of it.
This is really three stories, one about the engineering team at JPL that landed Curiosity successfully, one about Mars, and one about Earth. It’s magnificent.
