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Omni Brain

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An exploration of the serious, fun, ridiculous, past, present and future of the brain and the science that loves it.

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  • Color after image demonstration - Seeing color when there is none.

    Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 11:29 in Vision

    I'm teaching about opponent processes in color vision today and thought I'd share one of my favorite examples. This is how you use the human visual system to turn a black and white photo into color. Try it out: Read the comments on this post......

  • The difference between objects and scenes... random thoughts

    Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 16:34 in Psychology

    I'm in the middle of my qualification exams and ran across this interesting paper: Liu, Z Kersten, D Knill, DC Dissociating stimulus information from internal representation--a case study in object recognition. Vision research. 1999; 39(3): 603-12. ...

  • Is it me or is the Swine Flu waaay overrated? A case of the Availability Heuristic.

    Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 14:42 in Psychology

    I think it's a bit like terrorism. It scares the shit out of you but there's next to zero chance it will actually happen to you. Seriously... you have a much much higher chance of choking on a twinky (even if you've never eaten one) than catching th...

  • How to tell if you have swine flu

    Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 14:34

    Go here to tell with 100% accuracy. Read the comments on this post......

  • More thoughts on student blogging in class

    Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 12:51 in Academia

    Jason, a graduate student at USC, shot me an email asking for more information about my blogging experiment and I thought I'd post some of the things I sent back to him. Totally unpolished and stream of consciousness but here it is... Hi Jason, Th...

  • Using science to kill people

    Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 12:28

    Ok ok.. how about 'Using science to kill the fewest people while seeking world domination'... hmm... maybe not that either, how about 'Using science to protect our way of life' There we go! Now that you know what we're talking about you can check o...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 3 comments.

5 stars George C.

I was wondering if you could tell me more about the poster title (Disturbing French Aids Poster)I thinks it's unique. I am taking a class at City College of San Francisco GLBST 70: AIDS in AMERICA and one of my assignments is to check out AIDS posters from 1981 to 1989 and to see what the message that was being portrayed to the public, but I was so hook on your poster i wanted to know more about it and what type of message was yo trying to get across. I am sure i get the message, but it would be so cool if you could tell me in your own words. look forward to heraing from you. Keep up the great work.

Posted: January 28th, 2009 | Report This Comment

omnibrain

5 stars Steve

Hi me! good job today on cutting and pasting some youtube code into a post....

thanks me!

Posted: June 12th, 2007 | More Reviews From omnibrain | Report This Comment

Tony3992

5 stars Tony Cleator

Great blog, Steve, I will be back to absorb more!

Posted: June 11th, 2007 | More Reviews From Tony3992 | Report This Comment

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