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thundara  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Neuroscience: Crammed with connections

Negative, it's a guy talking, but it has tons of visuals (in powerpoint form) (and crazy ideas)





user-inactivated  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What's curious is how our perspectives diverged in this small comment thread. I'm wondering if it's due to how people process information differently. For instance, I'm highly visual, synesthetic, kinesthetic. I have a hard time listening to people talk for long lengths because of how my brain works. Thus the video you suggested, while it seemed related according to how your mind works, it was not related due to how my mind works. Did you get a sense of that? What's your viewpoint on this?

I'm nerdy and ponderous, so you don't have to reply. I'm merely curious.

thundara  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think we're just on different definitions of visuals. Mine was "lots of images that tell a story, rather than arguing a proof or hammering out the details", and yours was likely "animations of 3d structures showing a scene". My mistake?

Try #2: The Protein Data Bank has molecule of the month. This month's is a bit unspectacular, but previously they've done some cool exhibits like how Ebola's seven genes form the virus

If you like that, the author / artist, David Goodsell, does a lot more in the same vein: Website, Book

user-inactivated  ·  3460 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You didn't make any mistake, just two people with different brains staring at the same thing. =)

I will pore over those links, thank you.

nathank  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know what you mean, those turn me off in less than a sentence and then I turn them off. It's like being forced back into college stadium lectures. Here are a few sites with interesting science news/videos that I have had a lot of success with in my class.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/ (I LOVE these videos)(favorites from my classes: 12345

http://www.nytimes.com/video/science

http://education.usgs.gov/videos.html (USGS has lots of interesting stuff)

http://riaus.org.au/series/week-in-science/

user-inactivated  ·  3461 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ooooh, nice. I'm now a kid in a candy store. Thanks!