World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. This is just beautiful: how the brain anticipates the pentatonic scale. I would pay to know if it is hard-wired (my bet is: it is). Musically gifted people can play almost any instrument, as long as [...]
There is no doubt that the spreading diffusion of visual-enabled phones is going to cause an explosion in the development of augmented reality applications. I am very interested in image processing algorithms: it really makes you aware of the amazing tasks your visual cortex has to perform every instant. I found two examples of augmented [...]
This is going to be a precious link for those who have a lot of time and are in search of inspiration right now: 100 lectures from 100 scientists. I believe virtually any lecture or seminar should be online these days. There’s so much crap videos in the internet, it’s about time to tip the [...]
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Waking Up To Sleep is a complete conference on sleep held for The Science Network in February 2007. List of speakers includes: Charles Czeisler, Luis De Lecea, David Dinges, Mark Eric Dyken, Ralph Greenspan, Daniel Kripke, Philip Low, Sara Mednick, Allan Pack, Satchin Panda, Terrence Sejnowski, Paul Shaw, Jerry Siegel, Robert Stickgold, Giulio Tononi, Roger [...]