# rmx-s-brain: connectome inside an academic brain

<< Stanford researcher scans his own brain for a year and a half — the most studied in the world >>

http://www.kurzweilai.net/stanford-researcher-scans-his-own-brain-for-a-year-and-a-half-the-most-studied-in-the-world

Russell A. Poldrack,  Timothy O. Laumann et al. Long-term neural and physiological phenotyping of a single human. Nature Communications 6, Article number: 8885 doi:10.1038/ncomms9885. 09 December 2015 (open access)

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151209/ncomms9885/full/ncomms9885.html

# rmx-s-chem: a bizarre material

<< lanthanum aluminate film on a strontinum titanate crystal >> ... plus water

<< (..) a mysterious material emits ultraviolet light and has insulating, electrical conducting, semiconducting, superconducting, and ferromagnetic properties — all controlled by surface water >>

http://www.kurzweilai.net/mystery-material-stuns-scientists

Mohammad A. Islam, Diomedes Saldana-Greco,  et al.  Surface Chemically Switchable Ultraviolet Luminescence from Interfacial Two-Dimensional Electron Gas. Nano Letters, 2015; DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04461

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04461

# rmx-s-ecol: stabilizing climate: primates, tapirs, toucans ...

<< (..) a decline in fruit-eating animals such as large primates, tapirs and toucans could have a knock-on effect for tree species >>

https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/Extinction-of-large-animals-could-make-climate-change-worse

Bello C., Galetti M., et  al.  Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests. Science Advances, 2015, december 18

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/11/e1501105

# rmx: fuzzy forecasts

<< quello che un umano fa a una cavia, oggi, la stessa cosa una macchina potra' fare ad un umano, domani ... e' cosi' che funziona ... >> Anonymous, XX e.V.

rmx-s-brain: working like a radio, deep inside and in the "zona incerta"

<< (...) central thalamus works like a radio dial that tunes the brain to different states of activity and arousal >>

<< Located deep inside the brain the thalamus acts as a relay station sending neural signals from the body to the cortex >>

<< High frequency stimulation of 40 or 100 pulses per second [ flashed laser pulses ]    woke rats. In contrast, low frequency stimulation of 10 pulses per second sent rats into a state reminiscent of absence seizures that caused them to stiffen and stare before returning to sleep >>

<< Damage to neurons in the central part of the thalamus may lead to problems with sleep, attention, and memory >>

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/news_articles/pressrelease_brain_consciousness_12182015.htm

Jia Liu, Hyun Joo Lee, et al. Frequency-selective control of cortical and subcortical networks by central thalamus. eLife, 2015; 4 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.09215

http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e09215

# rmx-s-ai: about 'fuzzing' autonomous entities at intersections ...

<< This project "AIM"s to create a scalable, safe, and efficient multiagent framework for managing autonomous vehicles at intersections >>

University of Texas, Austin’s AIM traffic management simulator

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7Eaim/

Gord Hotchkiss. A new definition of order
December 8, 2015, 2:15 PM

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/264226/a-new-definition-of-order.html

# s-astrophys: a deficiency in angular momentum to cause low stabilities

<< (..) spin is fundamental to explaining why early galaxies are gas-rich and lumpy while modern galaxies display beautiful symmetric patterns >>

http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/media-releases/new-spin-on-star-forming-galaxies

Danail Obreschkow, Karl Glazebrook, et al. Low Angular Momentum in Clumpy, Turbulent Disk Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal, 14th December, 2015

http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04768