schizophrenia

11.23.09

Turning Brain Waves Into Beautiful Music

By converting functional MRI scans into musical notes of varying dynamics and frequencies, a new data visualization for our thoughts is born

By Dan Smith Posted 07.06.2009 at 3:58 pm 0 Comments

Ever wondered what your brain sounds like on the inside? Trinity College philosophy professor Dan Lloyd has created a program that orchestrates our brainwaves. Scanning brains on an MRI, Lloyd can watch as certain areas of the brain light up and then assign different frequencies to the areas of the brain used, correlating the intensity of usage with volume. The results are bizarrely beautiful.

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The Taste of Science

We are how we eat

By M. Farbman Posted 04.22.2009 at 10:43 am 0 Comments

Locally sourced organic food is so passe. Meet "the world's first entirely synthetic gourmet dish." The future of haute cuisine, according to one Michelin chef, will be formed from tartaric acid, 4-O-a-glucopyranosyl-D-sorbitol, and triacylglycerol. After all, he says, sugar is just as artificial as anything else.

Also in today's links: the taste of evolution, the taste of the Milky Way, and more.

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READ MORE ABOUT > food, links, mental illness, milky way, missing links, pregnancy, schizophrenia, space