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Portraits of the Mind

December 6th, 2011 | Brain

The images above are from Carl Schoonover‘s book, Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century.  They may seem like works of abstract art, but in fact, they are real world images used by scientists from around the world to gain a better understanding of the inner-workings of the brain.
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  I haven’t received my copy yet, but apparently, each chapter addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain  introduced with an essay by a leading scientist in that field of study.
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You can pick up the book from amazon here, and you can learn more about each image here.

-RSB

The World’s Most Famous Brain

November 28th, 2011 | Brain

Henry Molaison, known previously as “Patient HM,” had a memory that lasted only a few minutes as a result of brain surgery conducted in 1953 that was intended to stop his severe epilepsy.  HM lived for 55 years after his surgery with severe anterograde memory loss.  His working memory and procedural memory were in tact, but where he had trouble was in transferring short-term memories into long-term memories.  He and his brain have been thoroughly studied by the scientific community for his condition.

This brain (pictured above) allowed scientists to locate where new memories are formed (the hippocampus), and also allowed scientists to understand that memory really comes in many different forms: learning, long-term, short-term, conscious, unconscious.

This image was shot by Spencer Lowell for a story, “The Art & Science of Slicing up a Human Brain”, featured in Discover magazine in 2010.  The brain sits in a plexiglass mold waiting to be embedded in gelatin, frozen, sliced, dyed, mounted, and finally scanned.

-RSB

Skate, the Final Frontier

November 26th, 2011 | Space

Photographer Cole Barash was recently hired to shoot an ad campaign for ALEX water bottles.  The idea was to portray a futuristic lifestyle by showing an Astronaut in various activities in hopes of associating the water bottles with a progressive way of living.
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  I’m not sure if that comes across or not, but I’m a fan of the photography.

-RSB

To The Moon

November 24th, 2011 | Space

Above is original photography scanned from ‘To The Moon’, an audio and visual chronology from Time-Life that documents NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects.  What I think is really amazing about these photos is how they highlight the analog nature of the space program in the 60’s.  With no access to fancy computers or technology, they relied on elaborate test rigs and practical scientific testing to explore space.  I often wonder how they could achieve so much with seemingly meager resources, and today, we are having trouble getting back to the Moon (and Mars seems farther away than ever) with all of our powerful computers and technology… I really hope to see a “To Mars” series sometime in my lifetime.

You can learn more about these pictures and others from this terrific post on Sci-Fi-O-Rama.

-RSB

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