Bach Under The Stars
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Hawaiian Starlight
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/trailer.html�
Film about starry sky above Hawaiian island.
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Concept of mind
If my argument is successful, there will follow some interesting consequences. First, the hallowed contrast between Mind and Matter will be dissipated, but dissipated not by either of the equally hallowed absorptions of Mind by Matter or Matter by Mind, but in quite a different way.... It will also follow that both Idealism and Materialism are answers to an improper question. The "reduction" of the material world to mental states and processes, as well as the "reduction" of the mental states and processes to physical states and processes, presuppose the legitimacy of the disjunction "either there exist minds or there exist bodies (but not both)". It would be like saying, "either she bought a left-hand and a right-hand glove or she bought a pair of gloves (but not both)".
– Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
Manipulation of immune system removes amyloid plaques from mice brain
To do this, the researchers over-expressed IL-6 in the brains of newborn mice that had yet to develop anyamyloid plaques , as well in mice with pre-existing plaques. Using somatic brain transgenesis technology, scientists analyzed the effect of IL-6 on brain neuro-inflammation and plaque deposition. In both groups of mice, the presence of IL-6 lead to the clearance ofamyloid plaques from the brain.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/10/15/scientists.remove.amyloid.plaques.brains.live.animals.with.alzheimers.disease
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