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| Evolution
of Freud |
| A new art exhibition traces the pioneer’s
transformation from an anatomist to a psychologist, says Benedict Carey |
| He began his long and transcendent
career in a nondescript laboratory on the Adriatic Sea, dissecting eels. He examined
hundreds of the animals, working long hours amid stench and slime, peering through
a microscope at countless tissue samples, in search of an organ that had eluded
earlier anatomists — testicles. “Since eels do not keep diaries,”
the investigator, 19-year-old Sigmund Freud, wrote to a friend in the spring of
1876, the only way to determine gender was to cut and slice, “but in vain,
all the eels which I cut open are of the fairer sex”. He ended the letter
by sketching an eel, swimming through the text,its face fixed with a slight, Mona
Lisa smile. ... | Read.. |
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| An eye on the brain |
| Computers are adept at
tasks involving speed and precision such as solving equations, but they could
learn a thing or two from the energy efficient human brain. That is the premise
behind the work of Kwabena Boahen, a Stanford University scientist who is reverse-engineering
portions of the human nervous system, beginning with the relatively simple retina,
and applying its lessons to the next ... | Read.. |
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| Nuclear nervousness |
| There is no industry in
India where science, technology, defence, the environment, politics and patriotism
are more closely mixed than in nuclear power. Yet at the last count there were
over 30 other countries in the world where nuclear plants provid ... |
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| QED: Check Brain drain
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Indian students in US universities fared better in the sciences and maths, particularly problem solving and analytical thinking, than their US counterparts, according to a recent survey conducted at American universities.
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| Recommended:
A new focus on Galileo’s career
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GALILEO'S INSTRUMENTS
OF CREDIT
Mario Biagioli
University of press Chicago; $ 35.00... | Read.. |
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Kim Kachmann-Geltz did everything right. She ran five miles a day, ate wheat toast and oatmeal, stayed slim, never smoked. Her blood pressure was perfect. Her genes, she thought, were good: Her great-grandmother had lived to 102. ... | 
