‘Muhammed, my friend’ Tori & Maynard and ‘Silent All These Years’

Open Access to Journals

“As scientists and Nobel Laureates, we write to express our strong support for S. 1373, the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA).  This bi-partisan legislation, sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John Cornyn (R-TX), would enhance access to federally funded, published research articles for scientists, physicians, health care workers, libraries, students, researchers, academic institutions, companies, and patients and consumers.”

http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/supporters/scientists/nobelists_2009.shtml

Public opinion on biobanking privacy – Trust in Academia

kaufman 2009 public opinion about privacy in biobanking.pdf
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"Survey correspondents consistently were more worried about government researchers and agencies accessing data from the cohort study than about academic and medical researchers doing so… consistent with several other studies that observed that people are willing to share medical information with academics than with governments or with industries… implies informed-consent documents should clarify, to the extent possible, what types of researchers will have access to the data."

However:
"Privacy concerns are not strongly related to willingness to join a research study"

dichotomies. this, mind/body

The article below [link] speaks of the fMRI as a technology that visualizes the mind. And not only, but the process as well. I am a little surprised that as late as 2004, MIT allowed for the perpetuation of the mind/body binary, even if it is just a starter question to which they subsequently try to dismantle. However, they speak of the “brain-mind connection” further down the article, implying the mind and brain are still separated to a degree. Descartes lives on! Is it just semantics? It is a curious way to proceed with language in finding an emergent phenomenon. Someone out there skilled in this area, I’d like to know. Hit me up.

http://www.wi.mit.edu/news/archives/2004/cpa_0609.html

There are many researchers out there trying to tackle the physicality of consciousness; books, articles, and on, as mentioned in the article. All are looking at the brain. It is all fascinating, compelling and ever informative and revealing an incredible amount of information about the resilience of… human. Yet receptors of the brain are found throughout the rest of the body, as within  the digestive tract. They respond to the same neurotransmitters as the brain. Mental function, behavior, emotion, intelligence, intellectual burn-out, intuition, stress, IBS, heartbreak, nausea, happiness, what have you, are all full-body experiences.

I am sure I have mentioned this before. A good read on this is Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert, Phd. http://books.google.com/books?id=gPDRP9DV8twC&dq=molecules+of+emotion&amp… It is interwoven with her own personal story of being a woman in the sciences (an incredible one at that), has some technical language, and has been criticized for being new wave b.s. But all are relevant to the development of science and medicine and finding the physical mind.

Seems one for complimentarity. Or maybe that is what integrative physiological science is for. As is the usual, they should talk to each other more often. Or try fMRI’ing brain + the rest of the body.

 

emotion. by vegetation et al.

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Genetic Counseling 1970

“It would seem in keeping, therefore, with modern public health procedure, to apply present knowledge in genetics to the prevention of avoidable birth deficiencies of hereditary and familial causation, rather than find it subsequently necessary to institute costly therapeutic and rehabilitation measures in attempts to overcome the damaging and emotionally disturbing effects of the deficiencies.”

Introduction by Harold Abramson, MD
 
What are the deficiencies? Yes, that is the question. A long standing one.

Semiconductor Vids: magnetic fields & data, raw

:The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries:

this one i’ve posted in the past. it’s just so cool.

Brilliant Noise by Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt  :Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun’s finest unseen moments.:

“The Amazing Unmanned Operating Room,” illustrated by Teruya Yamamoto – 1969

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In this unmanned operating room, a computer-controlled robot arm is performing a heart transplant with cool precision. The patient’s heart has been removed and placed on the adjacent table. Before inserting the new artificial heart, the computer waits for instructions from the human doctor, who is monitoring the procedure on a screen in the next room.
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Einstein Letters 1947 & 1948 calling for responsibility at the start of the Cold War

 

 

NSF – the concept album (1945)