The history of our quest to understand the brain is certainly as long as human history itself. Use this extensive timeline to meander through some of the high-lights (and low-lights) of this great journey of understanding. There are many evidences of ancient civilization which show that people...
Berke’s deep engagement with educational politics and countercultural movements in the US is indeed essential for understanding the genesis of the Congress and why it positioned itself as an ‘Anti-Congress’ against traditional academic gatherings – to transcend what Levy characterises as ‘trivial ...
In 1927, two papers arrived in the Nature offices that would advance understanding of physics at the quantum level and lead to inventions such as the electron microscope. The first, by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer (pictured), is a fine example of how discovery is often catalysed by ...
解析 Because understanding the history and traditions of other countries can help us to understand their cultures. History and traditions can make up a huge part of a country's culture and explain a lot of things we find strange about another culture. ...
A.M.E. Zion Church, corner of West Tenth and Bleecker Street, New York City, public domain via Wikimedia Commons Dear friends: While I delivered this live video presentation last autumn, Historic Environment Scotland just recently put out the recording on its YouTube channel, once the closed...
poets and philosophersare in every library and college; at this moment Plato is being studied by ahundred thousand discoverers of the “dear delight” of philosophy overspreadinglife with understanding thought. This select...
NEWHOUSE: Somehow the man who couldn't form new memories had found a way to learn new things. It was a remarkable discovery that radically altered our understanding of how learning and memory work. Before H.M., doctors believed there was a single memory store through which all information mo...
One of the main challenges of understanding terrorism nowadays is that we are dealing with decentralized, independent cells, where there's no leader leading the whole process. And here, you can actually see how visualization is being used. The diagram that you see behind me shows all ...
between rational and accidental causes. The former, since they are potentially applicable to other countries, other periods and other conditions, lead to fruitful generalizations and lessons can be learned from them; they serve the end of broadening and deepening our understanding. Accidental causes ca...
the "phantom pickoff throw": The pitcher would spin as if making a pickoff attempt but keep the ball tucked in his glove. His fielders would act as if the throw had gone wild, make a lot of noise and chase after it, and the runner -- tricked -- would start to run to ...