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• The Fidgeting Brain

  14-10-2018 14:52
  A new review paper in The Neuroscientist highlights the problem of body movements for neuroscience, from blinks to fidgeting.Authors Patrick J Drew and colleagues of Penn State discuss how many types of movements are associated with widespread brain activation, which can contaminate brain activity recordings. This is true, they say, of both humans and experimental animals such as rodents, e.g. with their 'whisking' movements of the whiskers.A particular concern is that many movements
  
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• What "First Man" Gets Fabulously Right About NASA: An Interview with Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden

  14-10-2018 06:41
  First Man is not like other movies about the space race, and I mean that in a very good way.I’ll admit, I was skeptical about the director of La La Land telling the story of Neil Armstrong’s historic landing on the Moon. (Would there be songs? A scowling J.K. Simmons?) It turns out to be a synergistic pairing of artist and material. First Man brushes aside the expected saga of space cowboys saddling up their steel horses, delivering instead a moving narrative of NASA’s glory da
  
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