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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

BIG LEAVES AND DROP IN CO2. "The mechanistic hypothesis of Beerling et al. (2001) links the gap between the earliest vascular plants and the advent of large megaphylls with a dramatic 90% drop in the atmospheric CO2 concentration during the late Palaeozoic." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

KNOWING UP FROM DOWN. "Leaf production also requires differentiation between adaxial (upper) and abaxial (lower) surfaces because the former is specialized for the efficient capture of solar energy and the latter for gas exchange." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

TELEPATHY ACHIEVED. “We’ve even emailed verbal thoughts back and forth from person to person.” https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn

IMPLANTED MEMORIES. “Scientists can make copies of memories.” (Ted Berger). "I asked Berger if his artificial hippocampus could be used to implant false memories in people. He said that they’ve tried it with monkeys and found that giving their brains a code for the wrong symbol sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t." https://lnkd.in/diFYbCn View in LinkedIn

EMOTIONAL MEMORY. “Our present work provides new insight into the functional neural circuits underlying the malleability of emotional memory.” https://lnkd.in/dbStCyh View in LinkedIn

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