The Lovely Stones

Among the first to visit Greece’s new Acropolis Museum, devoted to the Parthenon and other temples, [Christopher Hitchens] reviews the origins of a gloriously “right” structure (part of a fifth-century-b.c. stimulus plan) and the continuing outrage that half its façade is still in London.

[Sourec]

He almost convinced me that the British should bring back the Elgin marbles. Maybe if I read it a second time I’ll be fully convinced.

Fighting back against Templeton

I’m really happy to see that happening: Fighting back against Templeton.

And I very much like that those are two philosophers who declined participation to Templeton associated matters.

Unfortunately, those are people I already liked. Expecting to discover new names soon and to see the vacuum around Templeton Foundation become deeper and wider despite the money they use to look sympathetic.

cyborg meme

Il y a des resultats qui ne collent pas tout à fait, mais comme celui de Dr Free-Ride est plutôt bien trouvé je me suis dit que je devais voir ce que OldCola donnerait.

Get Your Cyborg Name

Pas mal du tout !
Logical assassination, yeah !

Donne envie pour OldColalalala…
C’est de designed qui m’amuse le plus. Vais ressortir mes antennes et me préparer à mordre, tiens.

Festo Aqua Penguin

Mignons tout plein

Via

The Promise of a Cure: 20 Years and Counting

The Promise of a Cure: 20 Years and Counting
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
Science 19 June 2009: Vol. 324. no. 5934, pp. 1504 – 1507 doi: 10.1126/science.324_1504

Y a-t-il des questions auxquelles aucune science ne répond?

Ca me travaillait de répondre à la question (vue chez Tim), mais j’étais occupé par ailleurs.

J’ai eu le temps pour la version courte :

Oui, toutes celles pour lesquelles des données pertinentes ne sont pas disponibles.

On peut certainement faire un peu plus long.

lessons from Twitter

[updated/completed 20.06.09 08:51 CEST]

#MITEO

Following a discussion this afternoon between @jason_pontin and @BoraZ I decided to stay and follow the intervention of Bora Zivkovic, to learn a little bit about the use of Twitter (I’m new at that game).

Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain

The division of labor by the two cerebral hemispheres—once thought to be uniquely human—predates us by half a billion years. Speech, right-handedness, facial recognition and the processing of spatial relations can be traced to brain asymmetries in early vertebrates

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Key Concepts

The authors have proposed that the specialization of the brain’s two hemispheres was already in place when vertebrates arose 500 million years ago.

The left hemisphere originally seems to have focused in general on controlling well-established patterns of behavior; the right specialized in detecting and responding to unexpected stimuli.

Both speech and right-handedness may have evolved from a specialization for the control of routine behavior.

Face recognition and the processing of spatial relations may trace their heritage to a need to sense predators quickly.

Copernicus & Kepler by Carl Sagan

Robert Full: Learning from the gecko’s tail