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Kharin
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New weblog
« on: 2003-12-16 05:04:18 » |
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http://www.corante.com/loom/
The Loom weaves together deep time and modern life. It surveys new research on evolution, paleontology, and comparitive biology and links them to biotechnology, medicine, neuroscience, computer science, environmental issues, politics, and ethics. Plus the occasional mind-controlling parasite.
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Re:New weblog
« Reply #1 on: 2003-12-16 11:49:41 » |
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This looks like an interesting read...
Soul Made Flesh tells the story of a dramatic turning point in history--the discovery of the role and importance of the human brain. The secrets of the brain were uncovered in seventeenth century England, against a deadly backdrop of civil war, regicide, and plague. At the beginning of this turbulent century, no one know how the brain worked; they didn't even know what an intact brain looked like. By the century's close, the science of the brain had been established, helping to overturn misconceptions about the body and to unseat philosophies about the mind and the universe that had ruled Western thought for centuries. Presiding over the rise of this new science was the founder of modern neurology, Thomas Willis, a fascinating yet forgotten figure who stood at the center of an extraordinary group of natural philosophers known as the Oxford Circle. Soul Made Flesh chronicles their groundbreaking revelations and gory experiments that first enshrined the brain as the chemical engine of reason, emotion, and madness--as the very seat of the human soul.
http://carlzimmer.com/soul_1.html
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