What happened this week? I was busy getting ready for my trip to Australia and New Zealand, but I guess there continued to be economic worries in the US.
Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on October 26, 2008. My favorite: $150,000 wardrobe:
anarchy anticipatory apprehensive autumn awesome bamboozle [...]
This week’s 3rd Presidential Debate must have made an impression on Turkers.
Here are the Words of the Week for the week ending on October 19, 2008:
accomplished acne acquisition adamant ake aluminum ancestors appellation atriculate autumnal away boring brouhaha busy cantankerous cherubic confidentiality conflagration conglomerate consumption contentment convelance credit depressing determination distilled epiphany [...]
There is new evidence that memories are stored in the same neurons that experienced the memory in the first place. Although this sounds expected—researchers have assumed this for some time—this is the first study that actually demonstrates it.
Their Method:
These researchers implanted tiny electrodes into the brains of epilepsy patients (specifically in the hippocampus, which is [...]
(This was also posted on the ASC blog.)
There has been a lot of buzz around social search in the online tech community, but I am largely disappointed by the new tools and services I’ve encountered. It’s not that these sites are unusable, but that they each seem to take on a different conception of what [...]
I came across a great quote from a friend today. It applies to the general Presidential election, as well as to California’s Proposition 8:
I hope we can all agree that we want to live in a country where we are moving toward, not away from, greater acceptance of all differences, whether they be political, racial, [...]
