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2013-06-19 23:21:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New memories in the brain can be viewed as changes in the strength of synaptic connections. In this experiment florescent markers are attached to synapses and light up when the synapse is activated. " The fluorescent markers allow scientists to see live excitatory and inhibitory synapses for the first time – and, importantly, how they change as new memories are formed ."

2013-06-19 22:21:54 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

Old shipwreck - Imgur

2013-06-19 22:15:26 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

2013-06-19 22:15:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

2013-06-19 22:11:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-06-19 22:08:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Aescher Hotel in Appenzellerland , Switzerland

2013-06-19 21:54:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

2013-06-19 16:30:32 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Head transplants??? ...

This is an amazing paper in that it dares to even contemplate the possibility of a human head transplantation.  I'm no physician so I can't fairly judge it, but I have serious reservations that spinal linkage could actually be accomplished as discussed.  In any case, the moral and philosophical implications are just mind boggling.

2013-06-19 12:38:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Ivan Dokmanic and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne have developed a system capable of reconstructing the shape of a room – and where you are in it - using echoes.
Echolocating app will let you map a room with sound
What's key to the trick, say human echolocators, is sensing the strong early reflections off the walls, rather than the noisy, confusing mishmash of late-arriving, weaker echoes.

Hoping to computerise this process of 3D visualisation, the EPFL team has developed a system capable of reconstructing the shape of a room using these "first order" echoes. To do this, the researchers wrote an echo-sorting algorithm which can discriminate between the first and later echoes.

To test their plan they set up a loudspeaker and five microphones in Lausanne cathedral. The speaker briefly emitted an audible chirp -s... more »

2013-06-19 12:15:15 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

#EarthMyMother #ForFriends #photo

2013-06-19 12:10:15 (14 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

2013-06-19 12:08:01 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

♥

2013-06-19 11:54:29 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

Castle Geyser erupts in front of a rising sun at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

2013-06-19 11:51:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Good morning ~ have a nice day

2013-06-19 11:45:52 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

body art :)
from fb

2013-06-19 11:42:35 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

2013-06-19 11:33:44 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

#EarthMyMother #ForFriends #photo

2013-06-19 01:55:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 34 +1s)

It has been a very busy day! See you all tomorrow...
#sunset  

2013-06-19 00:35:11 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 47 +1s)

2013-06-19 00:34:50 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

sand deco..........

2013-06-19 00:34:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

2013-06-18 15:04:32 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 33 +1s)

Sand Dunes, Rub al Khali, Saudi Arabia ... look out for the sandworms! ... National Geographic - "Photograph by George Steinmetz ... The borders of four nations—Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—blur beneath the shifting sands of the Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter, desert."

http://photography.nationalgeographic.co.in/wallpaper/photography/photos/mysterious-earth/empty-quarter-dunes/

2013-06-18 15:03:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KENDALL

<Message from +su ann lim > Dear, dear G+ friends,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the outpouring of your comments and posts in tribute to +J.C. Kendall and also sharing my painful experience.

I am overwhelmed by your responses to the news of Jonathan's sudden death.  I wish I could be able to personally thank each of you for your kindness, but, at this moment it is all I can do to get through one day at a time.  I'm trying to read and respond to your thoughts but I'm also struggIing to survive the tsunamis of grief as well as moments of denial that Jonathan cannot possibly be gone. If you haven't heard from me yet, please know I very much appreciate your comments and intend to touch base when I can.

Some of you have generously offered help.  I was advised by a couple of you to keep lists of things thatneed... more »

2013-06-18 15:00:57 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 18 +1s)

Inside the Cupola of ISS, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy photographes targets on Earth some 250 miles below him © NASA

2013-06-18 14:47:41 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Space History Photo: A one-twentieth scale model of the X-15, originally suspended beneath the wing of a B-52, is observed by a scientist as it leaves the bomber model in tests to determine the release characteristics and drop motion of the research airplane. http://oak.ctx.ly/r/6eaa

2013-06-18 14:47:05 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Sergeev Alexander art...

2013-06-18 20:11:16 (5 comments, 6 reshares, 19 +1s)

#EarthMyMother #ForFriends #photo

2013-06-18 12:10:27 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

2013-06-18 12:09:03 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

2013-06-18 11:55:45 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

lol

2013-06-18 11:54:48 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

Perfect Balance

2013-06-18 11:50:14 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

2013-06-18 11:38:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Mountain Sunrise -- I woke up early just in time to see the sun rise over the Smokey Mountains and see some of the most beautiful colors.  It is amazing to see the sun rise and how quickly the sun comes over the horizon.
“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” – John Muir

Canon T4i | Tamron 10-24mm @ 24mm | f/8 | ISO100 | Processed in LR4 & Nik HDRPro2

2013-06-18 02:43:28 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 42 +1s)

Good evening G+!
Hope you had/have a great day... 

This one is shot at our country place in #Åland  in the Finnish archipelago... Me and my wife +Sophia Ardne went there last weekend with +Björn Nihlén - NihlenofSweden and his wife and son. 

We were sitting inside watching tv hiding out from the massive amount on mosquitos outside when Björn's wife saw a really red sunset so me and Björn just had to go out and shoot it, despite being drained like a vampire victim... ( #trueblood  style =D)  When we came down to the water we saw bid "drapes" of rain falling down in the sunset... I think we managed to fight of the mosquitos for a good 7-8 minutes before we had to go in again but we got some really good shots!

This is a 5 exp HDR shot with a 5D3 and a 16-35 LII @f/13
Hope you like it!

#landscapephotography +Landscape Photography+Landscape ... more »

2013-06-18 02:06:31 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

June 17, 1983 – Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride (pictured) became the first American woman in space ... Wikipedia - "ally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American physicist and astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978 and at the age of 32, became the first American woman to enter into low Earth orbit in 1983. She left NASA in 1987 to work at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control and had served on the investigation panels for two space shuttle disasters (Challenger and Columbia)—the only person to serve on both. She founded a company, Sally Ride Science, in 2001.[4] She co-authored five children's science books with her life partner of 27 years, Tam O'Shaughnessy, as well as another dozen or so space-related titles.[6] Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to be launched into space. ..."
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