/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 2006-07-10T19:17:30-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2006/07/10/the_synapse_blog_carnival.php Check out The Synapse - A neuroscience blog carnival devoted to all areas of neuroscience including neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry, and neural systems -- healthy brains to perverse minds -- neurotransmitters to theories of mind. They want your best posts about... 61494@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2006-07-10T19:17:30-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/11/10/brain_waves_blog_value.php Found this crazy blog value worth calculator via Brent's Stop the Presses: My blog is worth $68,309.34.How much is your blog worth? Anyone interested in buying a few shares?... 37803@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2005-11-10T16:02:52-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/10/05/the_wiki_way_collaborate_with_socialtext_now.php If you work collaboratively with other individuals and want to do it easier, faster and cheaper, then you should check out enterprise wiki software from Socialtext. (Full Disclosure, I am on the Board of Advisors). Today's NYTimes has an excellent... 36800@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2005-10-05T07:42:57-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/09/29/cognitive_analysis_of_tagging_and_categorization.php For those of you who blog, I think you'll find this cognitive analysis of tagging by Rashmi Sinha very interesting. Here is an excerpt of her post (I highly recommend reading her whole post if this area interests you): "At... 36671@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2005-09-29T20:38:52-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/03/07/blogging_begets_better_brains.php I must recommend a new neurolearning blog that has a strong focus on neurologically-based approaches to learning and learning differences. It is written by Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide who recently posted a great piece on the Brain of the... 4402@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2005-03-07T11:58:26-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/02/02/blog_book_blog_book_101_bloggers.php Virginia Postrel notes the high cost of blogging for authors, as Andrew Sullivan joins the ranks of many others in choosing to reduce blogging in order to focus on writing a book. As I wrote two years ago, Andrew in... 4378@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2005-02-02T12:16:29-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/02/01/think_better_than_steven_johnson.php Writers, researchers and all the rest of us information saturated, multi-tasking individuals should follow Steven Johnson's lead on how to best organize one's thoughts. Steven is an extremely prolific and successful writer. He is the author of several excellent books... 4375@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2005-02-01T13:28:54-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2005/01/24/sciencenow_says_nova_intelligent_sponsors_exist.php I would like to thank NOVA's new ScienceNow program for becoming Brain Waves first official sponsor. Along with Corante's other science bloggers, Carl Zimmer and Derek Lowe, I've always been leery of the random ads that exist on many blogs.... 4368@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2005-01-24T14:25:20-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2004/02/18/soul_made_flesh_and_mind_wide_open_monday_in_sfbay_area.php Two of my friends (and favorite authors of recent books) are both speaking in the SF/Bay Area on Monday at the same time, noon. Carl Zimmer will be speaking at the Stanford Medical School (sponsored by the Stanford University Center... 4119@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2004-02-18T10:18:39-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/12/27/help_irans_earthquake_victims.php The 6.7 earthquake that struck Iran on December 26th is a tragedy of epic proportions. Please help the residents of the devastated southeastern Iranian city of Bam. The National Iranian American Council has links to several organizations that already providing... 4082@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2003-12-27T12:30:04-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/12/15/carl_zimmer_moves_his_loom_and_soul_to_corante.php Carl Zimmer has moved his blog, The Loom, over to Corante. "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... 4075@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2003-12-15T12:48:02-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/11/25/laptop_crashed.php After two days of having my IBM R32 Thinkpad crash on me every few minutes, and hours with tech support (who were wonderfully helpful), I'll be shipping my machine on for 4-5 business days to get fixed. Now I might... 4062@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2003-11-25T11:31:33-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/10/21/socialtext_for_social_professionals.php If the last decade of the information technology wave was focused on creating a global information web, then the ten years will be about refining this endless information sea into a usable, reliable knowledge web. Socialtext, an enterprise social software... 4026@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2003-10-21T21:24:50-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/10/07/coevolution_in_the_living_code_pipeline.php 4016@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2003-10-07T09:41:07-05:00 http://brainwaves.corante.com/archives/2003/10/01/gibson_knows.php 4013@/home/corante/public_html/brainwaves/ Writing & Blogging 2003-10-01T21:31:04-05:00