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Risk taking brains!
"Evidence of 'risk-taking' brain"
"Scientists say they have found physical evidence of brain differences which may drive "thrill-seekers" to act impulsively or dangerously."
Now reading this BBC article, it seems that the risk taking brains are being painted in a bad light with their 'impulsivity' and 'dangerous' behaviours. Tracking down the paper ( Read more... ) -
Choose Namibia - RTP 2009
Choose Life, Choose a race, Choose a pack, Choose some trainers, Choose a credit card and a fucking big overdraft, Choose continually feeling like you should train more, Choose aches, pains and sprains, Choose spending your weekend on "long runs" developing an obsession with kit until all your friends disown you, Choose repacking a dozen times to ( Read more... ) -
More Brains
So while the work is slow and I wait for kit to come my way, what better thing to do than learn to use new software and create more funky renderings. This is a neat piece of kit called Anatomist and Brain Visa. They both work together (Anatomist being the viewer for visa), and Visa has the rather useful property of being able to organise your ( Read more... ) -
Topological homeomorphisms and other musings...
Having just given a talk on Random Field Theory, a technique designed to combine topology with probability to allow one to carry out extreme statistics, it is unsurprising to find my brain primed to look at the world in a homeomorphic fashion. Fortunately I choose very safe examples in my talk to explain the concept in relation to the Euler ( Read more... ) -
Time travel... Well perhaps
Year zero huh. Well perhaps I think not. On the scales that the Large Hadron Collidor MAY create wormholes, it is not possible for any future society to utilise as any form of time travel device. HOWEVER, a more interesting possiblity actually exists. Though these subatomic blackholes and wormholes may be created (as I'm led to understand with ( Read more... ) -
Olfactory diagnosis
The fine art of diagnosis with ones snout ( Read more... )
