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Un médecin italien veut greffer des têtes humaines

Un médecin italien veut greffer des têtes humaines

Thèse en ligne : Ambiances olfactives dans l’espace construit Le thèse de Suzel Balez vient d’être déposée dans l’archive Tel des thèses en ligne. Elle n’était disponible qu’en version papier dans les centres de documentation du Cresson, Cerma, ENSAG. Ce dépôt est une contribution majeure au thème des ambiances olfactives. Ambiances olfactives dans l’espace construit : perception des usagers et dispositifs techniques et architecturaux pour la maîtrise des ambiances olfactives dans des espaces de type tertiaire. Balez Suzel. Cette recherche se propose d’explorer les ambiances olfactives dans l’espace construit, de façon à se donner des moyens pour en tenir compte dans la conception architecturale. Imprimer ce billet Mots clefs : odeur Posté dans : Thème, Ambiance, Thème, Architecture, Veille, Publication

Ces hommes et ces femmes sans sexe déterminé Lorsque l'enfant paraît, c'est la première question : fille ou garçon ? Pourtant, une fois sur quatre mille environ, la réponse ne s'impose pas et le joli scénario de la naissance déraille. "J'étais encore sur la table pour la délivrance quand le médecin m'a mis le sexe de mon bébé devant le nez et m'a dit : "Regardez : on ne sait pas ce que c'est." Inès (1) a bien observé ces deux minuscules testicules et ce pénis collé, "comme une boursouflure". " Pour moi, ce petit zizi, ce n'était pas grave. L'Australie a adopté une troisième case, "x", sur les papiers d'identité Et si le sexe n'était pas binaire ? En France, ces initiatives font figure de fantaisies. Fin mai, une pétition signée par plus de 270 000 personnes a eu raison de l'amendement Sommaruga (loi sur la Refondation de l'école), qui proposait de former les enseignants à l'égalité entre les genres, histoire de lutter contre les stéréotypes liés au sexe. Un homme peut passer sa vie sans s'en rendre compte Son sexe a été "customisé"

Ca' Corner Pieces by Ay-o, George Brecht, Philip Corner, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, Joe Jones, George Maciunas, Walter Marchetti, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Terry Riley, Tomas Schmit, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts and La Monte Young were presented, and for the occasion several works by John Cage were reinterpreted in the spirit of this avant-garde: Fontana Mix (1958), Sounds of Venice and Water Walk (1959), Variation III (1962). The Real Neuroscience of Creativity | Beautiful Minds So yea, you know how the left brain is really realistic, analytical, practical, organized, and logical, and the right brain is so darn creative, passionate, sensual, tasteful, colorful, vivid, and poetic? No. Just no. Stop it. Please. Thoughtful cognitive neuroscientists such as Anna Abraham, Mark Beeman, Adam Bristol, Kalina Christoff, Andreas Fink, Jeremy Gray, Adam Green, Rex Jung, John Kounios, Hikaru Takeuchi, Oshin Vartanian, Darya Zabelina and others are on the forefront of investigating what actually happens in the brain during the creative process. The latest findings from the real neuroscience of creativity suggest that the right brain/left brain distinction is not the right one when it comes to understanding how creativity is implemented in the brain.* Creativity does not involve a single brain region or single side of the brain. Importantly, many of these brain regions work as a team to get the job done, and many recruit structures from both the left and right side of the brain.

Outsider Thinking: What Science Can Learn From Art | Think Tank "When I told my uncle who is a doctor that I’m speaking at TEDMED," says the artist Raghava KK, his uncle was dumbfounded. "Has the profession suffered some cardiovascular attack?" he asked. Not at all, Raghava replied. So what can the field of medicine learn from Raghava's art? Just as Raghava wants the spectator to be an active participant, he also says that doctors need "to leave the white spaces" for their patients to "take ownership of their health, take ownership of their wellbeing." What's the Big Idea? This is a prime example of outsider thinking, or the idea that "the outside is also the inside," as Raghava puts it. The video below is the first in a special series co-curated by Big Think and TEDMED featuring people with the audacity to imagine and create a better future in health and medicine. Watch the video here: Image is Untitled from Raghava KK's Epic Recital Collection

www.internazionale.it/news/musica/2013/04/10/i-daft-punk-alla-fiera-dellagricoltura/ Di solito, la fiera dell’agricoltura di Wee Waa non è la meta preferita degli appassionati di musica. Quest’anno però la manifestazione, che si tiene ogni anno nella piccola città australiana del New South Wales, avrà un programma inaspettato. I Daft Punk, duo elettronico francese, presenteranno il loro nuovo album Random access memories in anteprima mondiale proprio al Wee Waa Show, la festa rurale in programma dal 17 al 19 maggio. La conferma è arrivata direttamente dal sito internet del governo locale. Il disco verrà fatto ascoltare per la prima volta da un palco costruito per l’occasione, di fronte a un pubblico di circa quattromila persone. Il nuovo disco dei Daft Punk uscirà nei negozi a maggio e ha visto la partecipazione di artisti come Julian Casablancas degli Strokes, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers e Panda Bear degli Animal Collective.

Three Reasons to Reverse-Engineer the Brain | In Their Own Words Ray Kurzweil is the author of the recent book How to Create a Mind. The first question we have for him is "why create a mind?" There are three purposes of reverse-engineering the brain. One is to do a better job of fixing it and because that's a business opportunity. We're going to transform this multi-trillion dollar health and medicine industry with these techniques. And its knowledge was not programmed fact-by-fact in lists per some computer languages. That's coming to a search engine near you. So you can have a computer even do a job that's very mediocre compared to human, but then you can apply the scale of computation. So that's where we're headed. Since that helps you through the day, we'll answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question, and you'll just get used to this information popping up that you wanted and you'll be frustrated if you're thinking about something and it doesn't immediately pop up with you even having to ask for it.

3 Ways the Magic Wand of 3D Printing Will Go Mainstream | Big Think TV What's the Big Idea? "I’ve been working with 3-D printers since the late ‘80s," says Hod Lipson, the co-author, along with Melba Kurman, of the new book Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing. Up until about 2005, however, "this technology was mostly locked in very expensive machines" costing upwards of $50,000 and "that was one of the reasons why most people weren't aware of it," Lipson tells us. That all changed, of course, with the creation of an open-source 3-D printer, the Fab@Home project that came out in parallel with another open-source project called the RepRap. "These two printers really made the technology accessible to a lot of people, and hundreds, if not thousands of these machines have been built since then," Lipson tells us. What's the Significance? Now that this technology has been unleashed, where will it find its mainstream applications? Watch the video here: Image courtesy of Shutterstock.

Why Playing Outdoors Makes Children Smarter : Portland Family Magazine Author and clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison writes, “Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” It is through unstructured, open-ended creative play that children learn the ways of the world. Outdoor play is a multi-sensory activity. Stacey Loscalzo is a freelance writer and mother of two girls living in Ridgewood, NJ. Tags: featured, full-image Category: 2013_April, Health, Parenting, Summer Fun

ART OF WALKING Hendrik Sturm, l’infatigable marcheur-sculpteur d’espace La carte n’est pas un objet unique. Elle existe sous de multiples formes : cartes militaires, topographiques, thématiques, artistiques. Elle n’implique pas non plus une pratique homogène. « On peut la dessiner sur un mur, la concevoir comme une œuvre d’art, la construire comme une action politique ou comme une médiation » écrivent Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari dans Mille plateaux [4]. Même si la liste est loin d’être exhaustive, on comprend qu’on ne peut parler du lecteur de carte comme d’un acteur au singulier tant il peut recouvrir de visages différents. Hendrik Sturm, artiste-promeneur, utilise des cartes topographiques de l’Institut géographique national (IGN) durant ses balades d’une façon bien particulière. À l’affût des traces Artiste-promeneur, Hendrik Sturm est fasciné par « le paysage en mouvement » [5], par la manière dont il se révèle au cours de la marche. « D’un œil les bulgares, de l’autre les sportifs ! Hendrik Sturm fait aussi la lumière sur les traces du présent.

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