Posted by Maya on 08/23/10 in Brain Related, Evolution, Featured, Movies & Videos
Size Matters. Big Time! The size of the Frontal Lobe, that is. Our frontal lobe is larger in reference to the rest of the brain, than in any other species: It’s almost 40% of a human brain, about 15-17% in great apes, about 7% in dogs and just 3% in cats. The frontal lobe (in red), is the [...]
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Posted by Maya on 08/20/10 in Evolution, Movies & Videos
Plants take over cities, wild life re-establishes in the habitat it was chased away from, oceans make astonishing recovery. Natures rules again. And all this happens much faster than we imagine…
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Posted by Maya on 08/19/10 in Movies & Videos
Taken last week. I love the summer scene in the park!
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Posted by Maya on 08/7/10 in Movies & Videos
Got a craving for standup last night and streamed the entire The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour from Netflix. These guys are so witty, so hilarious and sadly, so right… The name of the tour is yet another thing we can be grateful to former president George W Bush for… Enjoy, it’s a killer!
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Posted by Maya on 08/6/10 in Brain Related, Movies & Videos, Technology
This was my first attempt at moving objects with the Emotive Epoc EEG Headset… Take 2 wasn’t very pretty. And here’s Tan Le, head of Emotiv Systems, demoing the headset at the TED Global 2010 conference in Oxford.
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Posted by Maya on 07/30/10 in Brain Related, Featured, Movies & Videos
I’m lying in bed on my stomach, in my old apt in Tel Aviv, when suddenly I get this weird feeling that something isn’t right. I can’t feel the entire front side of my body touching the bed! I realize that I’m slowly staring to hover above the bed. First just an inch, and then [...]
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Posted by Maya on 03/14/10 in Movies & Videos
One of my favorites from TED Global 2009 + testing if HE translation works in embedded talks.
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