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"Science also progresses by improved instrumentation and better recordkeeping. Star charts enabled celestial navigation. Gregor Mendel's careful counting of pea plants led to modern genetics. Johann Balmer's documentation of the exact spacing of hydrogen's emission spectra led to quantum mechanics. Things we believed to be beyond human kind—the sta

A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego r... See more

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

Neuroscience

Abie Cohen and • 93 cards

But that ended in 2010, when the results of a four-year effort to map the Neanderthal genome were published.

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

This involves, first, understanding powers of ten; second, visualizing data over a wide range of magnitudes on graphs using logarithmic scales; and third, appreciating the meaning of magnitude scales, such as the decibel (dB) scale for the loudness of sounds and the Richter scale for the strength of earthquakes.

David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter

The biodiversity crisis in numbers - a visual guide

Patrick Greenfield theguardian.com

Science of Visuals

Mike Taylor • 4 cards

for greater scientific understanding (23andMe) or in propagating user-submitted data to motivate behavior change in others (traineo).

David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter

Life Sciences AI

Nicolay Gerold • 1 card