AAN Swag

Science Swag

I've been a member of The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) for maybe half a dozen years. It's the primary professional organization for those in the field of neurology and its website states it's the world’s largest association of neurologists and neuroscience professionals. They conduct and report a ton of important original research and publish …

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Book Review of Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley My rating: 5 of 5 stars God, this takes me back. I remember Captain Crunch, phreaking, warez, War Games, my C64 (which I got in Fall 1982), BBS's, Usenet, CdC, 2600, etc., like it was yesterday. I …

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“The Crow” AI Dance Film

THE CROW is an amazing short film in which its AI-created animation transforms a dancer from the film PAINTER into a crow. The result is a haunting and compelling piece that follows the crow through its brief dance in a landscape of post-apocalyptic barrenness, to its inevitable demise. One of the most hauntingly beautiful and stunning projects to date -- and it's the first time an AI project has won at the Cannes Short Film Festival. Do not pass this up!

PNAS: Neuroscience

I realize that I'm likely the only person looking at this page who will find this topic interesting because it seems to matter what the platform, as soon as I dive into either 1) neuroscience or 2) quantum gravity, etc., any conversation dies and people try to creep away unnoticed. And I get it, truly …

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U.S. Privacy Concerns and the COVID-19 Crisis

I just published U.S. Privacy Concerns and the COVID-19 Crisis https://link.medium.com/LntpucK4E6 on Medium. Feel free to check it out -- comments are welcome. Cheers!