Interactive tour of Brodmann’s Brain
Brodmann's BrainJoin 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, […]
“Student Virtual World Science Projects in Sine Space”
AuditoriumMembers 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 […]
“Catalysis in Wonderland part 2”
AuditoriumCatalysis 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?
AuditoriumBig 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 lives easier by offering us unlimited possibility to better organize our work and our everyday life; they allow us to achieve a better understanding of […]