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iPad App Offers Detailed Images of Einstein's Brain 66

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @08:30PM from the turn-the-slice dept.

puddingebola writes in with news of a new app that might be of interest to those studying Einstein's brain, or just looking for something neat for Halloween. "Albert Einstein's brain, that revolutionized physics, can now be downloaded as an iPad app for USD 9.99. The exclusive application, which has been just launched, promises to make detailed images of Einstein's brain more accessible to scientists than ever before. The funding to scan and digitize nearly 350 fragile and priceless slides made from slices of Einstein's brain after his death in 1955 were given to a medical museum under development in Chicago, website 'Independent.ie' reported. The application will allow researchers and novices to peer into the eccentric Nobel winner's brain as if they were looking through a microscope. 'I can't wait to find out what they'll discover,' Steve Landers, a consultant for the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago, who designed the app, was quoted as saying by 'Press Association.'"

Comment Out of sight, out of mind (Score 3, Interesting) 522

by Pilum99 on Saturday September 04, 2010 @04:38AM (#33473538) Attached to: Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section

Since those ads are no longer easily viewed by the general public, some politicians will now consider it a victory against the evil sex trade. So now, instead of the sex trade of teenagers easily tracked by authorities and gov't officials, it has now gone back underground where it is harder to track and deal with those issues. Prohibition was supposed to improve society, but instead the booze went underground, organized crime developed, and more social problems arose as a result. Just as people like to imbibe, people also like to have sex (gasp! shock!). The allegory continues, just substitute "booze" for "sex trade".

Comment Re:Remember kids (Score 1) 396

by Pilum99 on Friday July 30, 2010 @02:12AM (#33079990) Attached to: HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion

Nononono! Light is analog! This is all digital, which is better! Black & White goes fast through any cable because it uses lower bandwidth and cables are limited by the bandwidth they can support. Everyone knows colour uses more information and so needs more bandwidth so you need the more expensive cable which is rated to handle higher bandwidths! You don't want your colours to arrive a split fraction of a second after your black & white does, do you? Imagine how the picture would end up!

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