Dan Brown on 'Inferno': 'I just spent 3 years in hell' While researching his new book, named after and inspired by the classic 14th-century poem “Inferno” by Dante, best-selling author Dan Brown slipped unnoticed into Dante’s church in Florence, Italy, to ask for some inspiration. Legend has it that Beatrice, Dante Alighieri’s muse and unrequited love, is buried at the small church in Santa Margherita, and it’s tradition to leave letters at her tomb seeking help with love.
The author of best-sellers like “The Da Vinci Code’’ and “Angels and Demons” left his own note asking for assistance in completing his new book. “Inferno,’’ Brown’s novel inspired by Dante’s epic poem about the nine circles of Hell, features recurring hero Robert Langdon traveling to Florence to solve mysterious clues found in great works of Renaissance art to stop a threat to mankind. “My unrequited love was really to write this novel,’’ Brown told Matt Lauer on TODAY Tuesday.
“I did write a note. Click here to read an excerpt of the book Doubleday. Sci/Tech | Looking through cats' eyes — news.bbc.co.uk. By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse These are the first pictures from an extraordinary experiment which has probed what it is like to look through the eyes of another creature. As reported on BBC News Online last week, a team of US scientists have wired a computer to a cat's brain and created videos of what the animal was seeing.
By recording the electrical activity of nerve cells in the thalamus, a region of the brain that receives signals from the eyes, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley were able to view these shapes. The team used what they describe as a "linear decoding technique" to convert the signals from the stimulated cells into visual images.
Dr Yang Dan, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, Fei Li and Garrett Stanley, now Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University conducted 11 experiments. They recorded the output from 177 brain cells that responded to light and dark in the cat's field of view. Dr. Dan Yang - Founder of DY: VINCI. Born Dan Dan (meaning very red in Chinese by her father who was classified as a black sheep during the Culture Revolution in China), Dr. Dan Yang was the first grandchild of an entrepreneurial family of six sons and two daughters. Her grandfather owned a boat factory and operated a transport business on the imperial canal which connects north and south China, but was relocated to rural China during the Culture Revolution. Her father, a self-taught man, tested airplane motors initially but eventually grew to lead the operations of a joint venture between his factory and Japanese motorcycle maker Suzuki.
Her mother was a technician at a state-owned factory that produced electronic tubes. Against traditional belief that girls would not be strong at Math and Science, Dr. Yang took a bachelor’s degree in physics at Nanjing University in 1982. In 2000, she made a $1 million dollar donation to Nanjing University for the construction of a student center. What are you working on right now? 1. Yang Dan. Mind Reading really possible. Recovered (delete?, duplication) The First Brain Transplant. Transhuman. In Praise of the Borg: “Resistance is futile – you will want to be assimilated!” - Transhumanity.net | Augmented Reality 311.
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