The National Library of Medicine keeps an outstanding historical record of historic studies in the human anatomy. Here is a publication from the year 1747 by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus entitled "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani." An English translation of [read more...]
Intelligent dust particles embedded in the brain could form an entirely new form of brain-machine interface. The brain is whispering constantly, and only now do we have the tools to eavesdrop at scale. Neural dust—microscopic, ultrasound-powered sensors—promises a revolution, letting [read more...]
The further you go back in that history, the more likely those stories of exotic animals were less accurate. Here is a gorgeous collection of illustrations showing how people imagined real animals they had only heard about. Crocodiles from Liber [read more...]
On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin is born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England. Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of early Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five. The son of [read more...]
"Even though God may not have a direct phone number, he is always listening," he said in a report . "When children at the table are attached to the computer or the phone and don’t listen to each other, don't [read more...]
Forget crop circles and alien abductions. Tapeworms from space are here, buzzing in Morse code, demanding cheese puffs, and possibly lobbying for interplanetary recognition. Humans may be hosts, but the real story is who’s controlling the remote… and the snack [read more...]
What happens in a brain that doesn’t respond to others’ pain? Neuroscientists at the University of Groningen explore empathy by scanning the minds of extreme psychopathy, including Patient 13, whose maximum scores on the PCL-R make him a rare window [read more...]
Newspapers included in a time capsule buried of the Bahr Treatment Center of the state hospital. It was recovered this summer. Fifty-seven years after it was buried, a time capsule was discovered on the grounds of the old Indiana state [read more...]
Diophantus isn’t a household name, but his fingerprints sit quietly all over modern algebra. Only fragments of his work survived, yet they read like messages from an ancient mind trying to invent the very language numbers now speak. A Mathematician [read more...]
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