Photon Noise

Photon noise. Light… noisy. Shhh. If you listen, you can hear it. Rendered via RenderMan.              

Volume Render of Fish Neural Development

A volume rendering (again, via Mathematica) of some developing neural structures in zebrafish. With Aaron Beck and Jen Bonner @ Skidmore.

Marroquin patterns

I notice that I seem to generate a lot of images while doing analysis, largely using Wolfram Research’s Mathematica…   so, maybe every day I should post one of those images here- an image of something I’m working on,… Read More

Yankee Candle

We were just discussing interesting candle-scents in my Computational class. Just thought of a new one: Lab Report

Google glass

Scheduled my pickup. Now to just avoid looking like a total tool while wearing them.   To quote the great Keavin Meany… “I don’t care, zoom zoom zoom”

Artisanal HTML

A friend was talking up his ‘hand-made’ web site recently. Apparently, websites that appear 1994 vintage are all the rage these days. As a follow up, some suggested that he used ‘Artisanal HTML, locally sourced’, and I thought… Read More

3-D printer helps save dying baby

More fun things we could do with the lab’s printer: 3-D printer helps save dying baby – CNN.com. For the full NEJM article, see http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1206319

Science fairs: rewarding talent or privilege? | Sci-Ed

Some of my students probably have something to say about this- Science fairs: rewarding talent or privilege? | Sci-Ed.

An attack on reductionism in neuroscience

Neuroscience needs its Einstein – Salon.com “I was a liberal arts major, prefer stories to hard facts, questions to answers. I prefer ambiguity, mystery and awe to bottom-line explanations. I’m personally offended by fundamentalist and reductionist beliefs, be… Read More

Magic Revealed: Cups Trick Found to Be More Effective Than Thought

Here is that article again, this time from Scientific American. Magic Revealed: Cups Trick Found to Be More Effective Than Thought: Scientific American.