The ultimate TMQ! (At least, for this season.) Plus, we almost, but not quite, apologize to Gregg Easterbrook. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Archive for the ‘Neuroscience’ Category
TMQ Watch: February 2, 2015.
Thursday, February 5th, 2015TMQ Watch: October 21, 2014.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014Pete and Repeat walk into bar in this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
All we want to do is photograph your brains.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014A brief consumer note for my readers. Many of you know of my interests in neurology, books, and photography.
Please do not purchase this book for me.
Thank you.
TMQ Watch: January 28, 2014 (part 1).
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014We were wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong! This is appropriate, as part of TMQ’s column this week is the “bad predictions review”.
Why were we wrong? We predicted last week that TMQ would use this week’s column for lots of gratuitous TV bashing. Instead, there’s pretty much…none.
So how does TMQ fill column space in this, the most boring week in football? After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
TMQ Watch: January 21, 2014.
Friday, January 24th, 2014It is official. It is now impossible for us to care any less about the Super Bowl (or, as some are calling it, “The Pot Bowl”) than we do now.
But we still have this week’s TMQ to get through after the jump…
You know, for kids.
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013I missed the original entry on the Publisher’s Weekly blog; otherwise I would be bellowing “Why was I not informed?” at the top of my lungs.
What am I on about? The Antarctic Express
And I’ve had this in the back of my mind as blog fodder for a bit now: “Experiments to Do With Your Baby“, based on the book Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid
TMQ Watch: October 1, 2013.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013We apologize for the delay in this week’s TMQ Watch. Allergies or a cold or something are still kicking our butts. It is our profound hope that, when science perfects the uploading of consciousness to machines, they choose not to emulate the human sinuses.
(Drainage!)
(On the other hand, are the sinuses necessary to fully emulate human consciousness? Is consciousness itself a chaotic system, with a sensitive dependance on initial conditions? Would leaving the sinuses out of the emulation change the nature of the emulation?)
But we digress. After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
(Worth noting before the jump: this week’s TMQ, and by implication, this week’s TMQ Watch, may contain possible spoilers for “Breaking Bad”, “Under the Dome”, and “The Bridge”.)
Onion headline, or New York Times headline?
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013TMQ Watch: September 10, 2013.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013Football season again. Soon, the air will chill. Soon, the Christmas decorations will start appearing in stores. Soon, Gregg Easterbrook will be writing about TV shows and the blur offense.
Oh, wait. Did we say “soon”? We mean “now”. After El Jumpo…
TMQ Watch: September 3, 2013.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013There are some things you can always count on as the seasons change:
- The return of the swallows to San Juan Capistrano. (Sort of.)
- The return of the buzzards to Hinkley, Ohio.
- TMQ’s haiku predictions column.
- WCD pointing out that many of TMQ’s haiku are not actual haiku, as they lack a seasonal reference. (We counted two out of 32.)
Now that we’ve nodded in the general direction of the eternal verities of the universe, let’s get started after the jump…
Shhhhhsh. The baby’s observing.
Saturday, April 20th, 2013This is…interesting. (And the photo of the wired-up baby is a little creepy.) I’ve been spending a fair amount of time recently around a baby (and a toddler), and I’m not 100% sure I agree with their police work there, Lou. What does “perceive objects in an adult-like way” mean, exactly? Because the baby I’ve been hanging with doesn’t seem to understand adult-like concepts like “you can’t go through a solid object”.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that. She is, after all, a baby. At least we haven’t had to have the conversation about how riding the dog like it’s a small horse is FROWNED UPON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT.)
…saves you from trial!
Thursday, March 14th, 2013A while back, I wrote about the case of Robert Carroll Gillham, who set fire to a Gallery Furniture store, doing $20 million in damage, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor while awaiting trial.
The HouChron has an update on the case. Good news: Mr. Gillham’s brain tumor was removed.
Good or bad news, depending on how you look at it: Mr. Gillham probably will never stand trial on the charges.
Summarizing, the damage that the tumor did before it was removed, the side effects of the removal, and Mr. Gillham’s age have left him in a state where both sides agree he’s not competent to stand trial.
Noted:
That’s actually a pretty classy statement for a man who had $20 million worth of stuff burned up.