/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ The field of neurotechnology, the focus of this blog, encompasses advances in brain science (neurons), information technology (bits) and bioengineering (genes). Up for discussion and analysis: the political, economic, ethical, and social forces that will shape the future of what will be one of the most important and fascinating stories of the coming decades. en-us zack@neuroinsights.com 2008-04-08T14:32:52-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2008/04/08/chinese_neuroscience_activity.php Action Potential, the blog for Nature Neuroscience, has an excellent post on recent funding trends in Chinese neuroscience along with some interesting history with respect to funding levels.... 73216@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Economic Geography 2008-04-08T14:32:52-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/01/26/friedmans_flat_world.php In Thomas Friedman's forthcoming book "The World is Flat" he asks, "In 2020, what will historians view as the definitive driver that shaped the world over the past twenty years, 9/11 or new phase of globalization? At the Arab Strategy... 4371@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Economic Geography 2005-01-26T13:26:37-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2004/01/16/neuroecology_is_psychobiogeography.php Update 8/8/04: I'm adding this link to the real definition of neuroecology for all of those who come to this site via search engines looking for information on neuroecology. New Year's Eve day I was walking through UCLA's sculpture garden... 4093@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Economic Geography 2004-01-16T15:33:49-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/10/22/in_1622_california_was_an_island.php As explorers mapped our planet from 1500-2000, there was a period of several hundred years when the maps that detailed our geographic understanding of the Earth's landscape were wrong. Take the case of California. Around the year 1500, California made... 4027@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Economic Geography 2003-10-22T02:31:03-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/06/20/disturb_in_medium_doses_please.php What conditions maximize biological diversity? The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis suggests that diversity is highest in ecologies that undergo intermediate levels of disturbances. Intermediate levels in terms of the frequency, scale, intensity and type of disturbances. (figure. Several years ago, I... 3944@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Economic Geography 2003-06-20T17:40:18-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/06/11/2003_nobel_in_geography.php 3936@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Economic Geography 2003-06-11T16:11:19-05:00