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CUT AND PASTE MEMORIES. “MIT neuroscientist Roger Redondo and his team started by gathering a sample group of genetically engineered mice. This system enabled the team to use doxycycline as a sort of “record/pause” button for neural activity in the animals’ brains.” https://lnkd.in/dk3ExPV View in LinkedIn

UNDERUTILIZED CAPACITY. “The human brain has a capacity that is ten times greater than first thought. They discovered that, on average, one synapse can hold about 4.7 bits of information. This means that the human brain has a capacity of one petabyte, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. One petabyte is about the same as about 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text or about the same as 13.3 years of HD-TV recordings.” https://lnkd.in/dNpHDtY View in LinkedIn

“IN A WORLD OF TOMORROW.” Sundance short film prize 2015. https://lnkd.in/due4kvm View in LinkedIn

INCEPTION. “We want to tell you about a recent project that we've been working on in lab that we've called Project Inception. They should make a movie about this. Where they plant ideas into people’s minds, so they can control them for their own personal gain. We'll call it: Inception.” https://lnkd.in/d9qh8PB View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this two weekend contemplation of the humble leaf. Taken in an evolutionary context, it has survived massive changes on the planet, adapted and successfully exploited those changes, and in the process nurtured whole ecosystems and global cycles of carbon and nitrogen. Undoubtedly, the leaf is continuing to adapt to changes on planet Earth. It richly deserves the role as a classic image of life on Earth. View in LinkedIn

DARK USE. “The U.S. military wants soldiers that have superhuman eyesight, controllable augmented muscles that turn untrained novices into expert killers, and more. The report, titled Cyborg Soldiers 205: Human/ Machine Fusion and the Implications for the Future of the DOD, reads like the framework for a dystopian novel set in a near future where injured soldiers are cybernetically enhanced, but come home to an America terrified of cyborgs.” https://lnkd.in/deGnthG View in LinkedIn

THE UP INNOVATION. "Deriving from the apical vegetative meristem flank, the abaxial surface is as old as land plants themselves, so genes specifying adaxial identity constitute a key innovation in leaf evolution. Plants appear to have evolved a complex hierarchy of transcription factor activation and depression, with the HD-ZIP (homeodomain–leucine zipper) gene family promoting adaxial leaf surfaces and others promoting abaxial differentiation." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn