Gerald Edelman passed away on May 17, 2014 in La Jolla, California. In 1972 he won the Nobel Prize (together with Rodney Porter) for solving the antibody structure, and explaining how the immune system functions. His research into antibodies led him to realize the enormous explanatory potential of selective-recognition systems....
Month: June 2014
Hybrid thinking: an idea from Ray Kurzweil
[ted id=2015] In his March 20, 2014 TED talk Ray Kurzweil suggested that in a couple of decades from now we will be able to increase our neocortex's power many-fold at an instant by accessing the processing power of the cloud. He suggested that this will be possible thanks to...
Famelab International for the best “stand-up scientist”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs32UWuLzys&w=560&h=315] This is the final of Famelab International 2014, held at the Cheltenham Science Festival on June 5, 2014. I was one of the three judges, together with Jim Al-Khalili and Alice Roberts. I have been involved with Famelab International since its conception in 2007, have trained contestants, co-organized...