Join us for an interactive tour of Brodmann's Brain! Within this giant cortex we can see and stimulate the fMRI mapped areas which correlate to fear, desire, love, coordination, meditation, […]

Members here at Science Circle regularly attend our meetings for online discussions and collaboration. On June 9, I will discuss my attempts to get my students to collaborate and work together online. Sine space seems to provide the online networking in a safe networked environment we need. One of my students has created a space […]

Catalysis in Wonderland, Part II: An SL presentation of classic transition-metal chemistry. Abstract: Organic chemistry follows certain rules. Starting in the 1950’s, we began to find ways that transition metals (e.g. chromium, iron, nickel, rhodium, gold and many others) could bend the rules of classic organic chemistry and facilitate chemical transformations which would otherwise be […]

Big data: road to the future or just weapons of math destruction?    Big Data are like the God Janus: on the one end they offer great advantages, make our […]