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...what a neuron looks like, surrounded by a thicket of tiny tendrils that serve as communications channels. Now multiply that neuron 100 billion times. Crammed into the skull of every human individual are as many neurons as there are stars in the Milky Way. Each one of these receives input from about 10,000 other neurons in the brain and sends messages to a thousand more. The combinatorial possibilities are staggering. The cerebral cortex alone boasts 1 million billion connections, a number so large, marvels neuroscientist Gerald Edelman in his recent book about the brain, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, that...
...more moments, he delayed facing his awesome responsibility. Then he sighed and removed the neural-input cap that fitted snugly over his skull and had enabled him to call up his distant past. Like all spacers, Captain Singh belonged to the "Bald Is Beautiful" school, if only because wigs were a nuisance in zero gravity. The social historians were still staggered by the fact that one invention, the portable "Brainman," could make bare heads the norm within a single decade. Not even quick-change skin coloring, or the lens- corrective laser shaping which had abolished eyeglasses, had made such...
...injuries, keyboard designers are taking a fresh look at the one component that has hardly changed since the earliest days of computing -- or, for that matter, the earliest days of typewriting 125 years ago. The result is a new crop of alternative keyboards that take the standard flat, rectangular input device and bend, split, fold and twist it almost beyond recognition...
College officials interviewed yesterday were, however, reluctant to call their request an "edit," saying they only wanted significant input from the student organization...
Taught primarily by teaching fellows, Ec 10 is a year-long course in the nuts and bolts of economics. Section leaders say their input may be what puts Ec 10 over...