Popular uprising spreads science

"popular" Science.

Basic Prion Science “Spreads” Insight

Translational research used to be fun. In fact, it used to be arresting—of course, considered here in the frame of triplets and ribonucleic acids of the transfer and mRNA variety. In fact, the mind-boggling concept that someone could actually know the velocity of a ribosome trundling down a messenger RNA, like a freight car on a railway track, led me to decide at a tender age that biochemistry ...

Reviews of popular science books.

Do you read popular neuroscience? Do you think Oliver Sacks is spot on and use his books to engage students or do you reckon his patient reports are more like novels or science fiction? Are you taken by Antonio Damasio’s powerful arguments or do you think he did not get his philosophy exactly right? Do you enjoy the writings of William Calvin, Susan Greenfield, Vilayanur Ramachandran or do you ...

Urban uprising.

Emeryville, California, is "bright" instead of "blight." This corridor of land, contaminated with hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and chlorinated solvents, is being cleaned up for transformation into retail, hotel, and office complexes, creating 10,600 new jobs. In addition to a $200,000 grant from the EPA, the town leveraged $644 million in private investments, and hungry developers have come call...

Cognitive science in popular film: the Cognitive Science Movie Index.

HAL 9000. Morpheus. Skynet. These household names demonstrate the strong cultural impact of films depicting themes in cognitive science and the potential power of popular cinema for outreach and education. Considering their wide influence, there is value to aggregating these movies and reflecting on their renderings of our field. The Cognitive Science Movie Index (CSMI) serves these purposes, l...