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Neuroscientists Identify Brain Regions Responsible for Warding off Negative Emotion

September 28th 2008 04:18
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A team of cognitive neuroscientists from Columbia University has identified the brain pathways responsible for the body’s emotional defense against gruesome and other aversive forms of imagery. The study, published today in the journal Neuron, could lead to better understanding of psychological diseases, improve behavioral therapies and spawn new federal policies for hospitals and treatment centers.








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Cheap laptops for schools

September 25th 2008 08:52
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From: Cheap Computers



The One Laptop per Child Foundation, started in 2005 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte, said Taiwan's Quanta Computer had started mass production of its first product, the lime-green-and-white XO laptop computer, at a factory in Changshu, China.


The group has already announced orders for children in Uruguay and Mongolia. It also plans to offer the laptops to Americans and Canadians through a $US 399 holiday charity program that covers the cost of providing a second machine to a child overseas.

The device, which runs on free Linux software, has already had a significant impact on the industry. Negroponte has traveled the globe meeting world leaders and talking to the public about speeding introduction of computers to children in the developing world. The XO is designed for elementary school students who are given the machines to take to and from school, like textbooks.

Analysts say the publicity he generated, along with concern his foundation's laptop might take businesses from commercial products, prompted companies including chipmaker Intel Corp and software maker Microsoft Corp, to boost investment in developing countries.

It has also spurred the launch of a new class of low-cost computers for a market broader than school children. Intel has developed the Classmate PC for the education market in developing countries, a laptop that it says cost $200 to build. So far its biggest customer is Pakistan's Allama Iqbal Open University, which ordered 700,000 of them.





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New Technology Helps Unravel Brain Tumors

September 22nd 2008 05:16
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Scientists are getting closer to figuring out what cause them and how to destroy them.


use this link to take you to the video showing what this is all about from St. Jude's children's hospital











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So what's technology doing for the art world

September 17th 2008 14:12
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University degrees go GREEN

September 14th 2008 21:37
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Smart for 2 - not so smart?

September 10th 2008 09:49
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Detroit Electric - nice, eh?

September 1st 2008 13:28
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