Deciphering How Memory Works

The human brain is remarkable in its ability to remember things for short periods of time in what is referred to as working memory. A waiter who takes your order and several others at your table without pen and paper, picking out tools at a store that you are going to use for repairs, picking [...]

Curing death

Modern medicine continuous to make small (and sometimes large) steps towards defeating all diseases and even preventing death. Recently, a new medical treatment has been shown successful in reversing death.
According to a story by CBS Station KYW-TV in Philadelphia, local doctors have been able to revive patients thought dead using a procedure that involves [...]

Viruses get stronger in space

A study performed by Arizona State University scientists and reported on CBC revealed that Earth-born viruses have a tendency to get nastier when flown into space. The experiment was performed simultaneously on board the Space Shuttle orbiting the Earth and on the planet’s surface at Kennedy Space Center. The scientists used the Salmonella typhimurium bacteria [...]

Alzheimer’s Part I: Disease

In 1906 Alois Alzheimer a neuropathologist (or so they say) was the first to diagnose the disease which is named after him from a 55 year old patient Auguste D. Since for the most part, Alzheimer’s is a disease of the elderly, occurring in people over the age of 60, it was somewhat of a [...]

Dawkins on the strangeness of science

Watch the following lecture by Oxford Professor, celebrated scientist, and author Richard Dawkins on the strangeness of science. The full title of his 2005 TED lecture is “Queerer than we can suppose: the strangeness of science.” A very interesting lecture with a very powerful message.
Mind-expanding talk that probes the limits of human understanding: Why can’t [...]

DNA Code Revealed

So you may be aware that the human genome was mapped in 2001, in a large scale research effort known as the human genome project, largely by the work of Dr. Craig Venter and Dr. Francis Collins of Celera Genomics and The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute respectively. However, scientists [...]

Students need sleep for better performance in school

Just a day before the new school year begins, CBC is reporting on two new studies supporting the commonsense conclusion that well rested students perform best.
Dr. Jacques Montplaisir of the Sleep Disorders Centre at Sacre-Coeur Hospital in Montreal and his colleagues tracked close to 1,500 children from five months to six years of age, [...]

The Placebo Effect Part II: There’s always a but….

Although the experiments of Dr. Wager appear to be well thought out and performed, the question has to be asked, how far is too far to answer an experimental question? And are the experiments ethical? To answer this question it is helpful to look back at the Milgram experiments-experiments done by Dr. Stanley Milgram at [...]

The Placebo Effect part I: The real deal?

Since it was first proposed in 1955, the placebo effect, which can be defined as a pseudo-treatment from which patients appear to get better has intrigued scientists.
An example of such an effect occurs with pain perception. Physicians and scientist believe that the placebo effect with respect to pain is dependent on the attitude and [...]

Is Artificial Intelligence better than man?

It is common these days to hear in the news about a new robot that is about to change our lives or some scientist who claims that robots will soon be doing all the manual labor for us. Scientists are busy trying to create useful robots; these robots will perform important tasks such as caring [...]

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