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Is Cannabis The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time?
The Dish
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
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The regulations in House Bill 1317 would require marijuana retail outlets to license with the state and for the first nine months, only currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries can apply. Owners must also be Colorado residents. Initially, these stores must sell marijuana that they cultivated themselves, but by ...
Mind-Bending Parasite Permanently Quells Cat Fear in Mice
Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science
9 mentions — 2 months ago
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A mouse sniffs the air, catches the whiff of cat urine, and runs towards the source of the smell… and straight into the jaws of a cat. This bizarre suicidal streak is the work of a single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, which has commandeered the mouse’s brain and ...
Will We Ever… Simulate the Brain?
Will We Ever… Simulate the Brain?
4 mentions — 4 months ago
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For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to prove it. His ambitious Human Brain Project (HBP) won one of two ceiling-shattering grants from the EC to the ...
How academia betrayed Aaron Swartz
michaeleisen.org
5 mentions — 5 months ago
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As news spread last week that digital rights activist Aaron Swartz had killed himself ahead of a federal trial on charges that he illegally downloaded a large database of scholarly articles with the intent to freely disseminate its contents, thousands of academics began posting free copies of their work online, coalescing around the Twitter hashtag #pdftribute.This was a touching tribute: a collective effort to complete the task Swartz had tried – and many people felt died trying – to accomplish himself. But it is a tragic irony that the only ...