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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Repost: TERRA NOVA

TERRA NOVA: Sinfonia Antarctica
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In December 2007 and January 2008 Paul D. Miller aka went to Antarctica to shoot a film and make a large scale multimedia performance work that will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent called Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica. Sinfonia Antarctica transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape of Antarctica into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. It's about the environment, sound, hip hop, electronic music and what it means to be a composer in the 21st century.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Atlas, anyone?

This is how we thought that information traveled:



This, however, is how it actually travels:



Can you find your way?

Repost: Human grid cells tile the environment

Category: Neuroscience
Posted on: January 27, 2010 12:40 PM, by Mo

How does the brain encode the spatial representations which enable us to successfully navigate our environment? Four decades of research has identified four cell types in the brains of mice and rats which are known to be involved in these processes: place cells, grid cells, head direction cells and, most recently, border cells. Although the functions of most of these cell types are well characterized in rodents, it remains unclear whether they are also found in humans. A new functional neuroimaging study, by researchers from University College London, published online in the journal Nature, now provides the first evidence for the existence of grid cells in the human brain...

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