linkedin post 2019-12-04 05:35:59
FALSE TRACES. “We Can Implant Entirely False Memories.” https://lnkd.in/d__Xr47 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-04 05:34:59
‘WHAT IF doctors and researchers could attack PTSD at the source: actually implanting or erasing specific memories in a person's brain?” https://lnkd.in/dbijb5P View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-06 06:38:01
SYNAPSE SURGERY. "British scientist says memories of spending the night with Marilyn Monroe could be implanted into the brain. Professor Bliss, 75, from the Francis Crick Institute in London, said it was only a matter of time before memory was fully understood and mastered.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12179994/British-scientist-says-memories-of-spending-the-night-with-Marilyn-Monroe-could-be-implanted-into-the-brain.html View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-06 06:33:59
“MANIPULATING MEMORIES by tinkering with brain cells is becoming routine in neuroscience labs. Last year, one team of researchers used a technique called optogenetics to label the cells encoding fearful memories in the mouse brain and to switch the memories on and off, and another used it to identify the cells encoding positive and negative emotional memories, so that they could convert positive memories into negative ones, and vice versa.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/mar/09/false-memories-implanted-into-the-brains-of-sleeping-mice View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-07 07:22:16
LATE ARRIVAL OF LEAFED PLANTS. "Surprisingly, plants continued to remain leafless for the next 40–50Myr, with megaphylls finally becoming widespread at the close of the Devonian period (360 Myr ago)." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-07 07:21:19
FIRST PLANTS WERE LEAFLESS. "The earliest ancestral vascular plants, dating to the late Silurian 410 Myr ago, were composed of simple or branched axial stems with sporangia but no leaves." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-07 07:20:03
GLOBAL SUCCESS. "Evidently, leaves are a global success. However, the advent of large megaphylls took place some 40–50 million years (Myr) after the origination of vascular land plants, suggesting that they were far from an evolutionary inevitability." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-07 07:19:48
FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of the plant leaf. Few structures have so exemplified life on Earth, nor caused such massive changes as plant leaves, from the vast grasslands to the dense forests. And the more we learn, the more sentient and knowing image of plants have emerged, departing from a stereotype of insensate dumb vegetation. Revisit your smart planetary neighbor with fresh eyes. View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-07 07:16:17
PRIMARY SOURCE OF ENERGY. "A true measure of their success in terrestrial environments is the capacity of leaves to endure climatic extremes between the tropics and the tundra whilst simultaneously facilitating the global scale net fixation of approx. 207 billion tonnes of CO2, 56.4 x 10(15) g C year(-1). This primary production provides energy for virtually all forms of terrestrial life on Earth, especially tetrapods and insects, and links many ecosystem and biogeochemical processes." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-12-07 07:14:59
GIANT IMPACT. "Megaphylls altered the evolutionary trajectory of terrestrial plant and animal life, the biogeo-chemical cycling of nutrients, water and carbon dioxide and the exchange of energy between the land surface and the atmosphere." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn