The Banana Peel Project

Computational neuroscientists have used IBM’s Blue Gene L supercomputer to model an entire “biologically accurate” mammalian neocortical column–that’s 10,000 neurons and 3,000,000 connections.
Models like these can be used to test all kinds of things, like drugs and therapies. What happens when scientists run experiments not on real brains or real neuronal structures, but on […]

Back in April I posted what I was, apparently, all about. Now that I’ve officially survived my first quarter in grad school, let’s see if my paper titles can tell us any more.
Triangulating theory and practice: Social force, culture, and the person in communication research
Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific […]