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Archive | December 3, 2012

Living in the Future: Simulated Brains, Origami Kayaks, self-filling waterbottles

Have you ever wondered if we could build a brain? Chris Eliasmith of the University of Waterloo has built a large-scale model of the human brain, using a computer to simulate the nerve clusters. Semantic Pointer Architecture Unifed Network, or SPAUN, has 2.5 million simulated neurons, as well as one simulated eye and one simulated [...]

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Daily Quote: Mahatma Gandhi

‎”Earth provides enough to satisfy every [person's] need, but not every [person's] greed” – Mahatma Gandhi

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