What Makes A Building Run?
Glass, Stone, Metal And Light
Portrait: H In NYC
Metabolomic Eye On Display At Dulles International Airport
Sunset At Janelia Farm
Crossing The Potomac To Selden Island
Blue
The Blind Woman Who Sees Rain, But Not Her Daughter’s Smile
“Once her belief was sanctified by science, her sight got better and better…” I first read about blindsight back in high school, reading an essay by Oliver Sacks and was absolutely intrigued by the thought of seeing without sight. Now there is a wonderful vignette on NPR by Lulu Miller that talks about blindsight (be sure to listen to …
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Alfa Romeo 1750 GT Veloce
Retinitis Pigmentosa
The Judgment Of Solomon
I had the honor and privilege of attending a Lasker/IRRF Initiative’s plenary session on Restoring Vision to the Blind at Janelia Farm last month where Mr. Sanford D. Greenberg delivered an emotional and inspiring story of a time in his life where he lost his vision during his junior year at Columbia University. The prospect of …
Porsche Cayman
What You See Is What You Get?
Dwayne Godwin (@BrainyActs) a professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at Wake Forest University posted this fun comic on how visual systems work. It is one of many, really excellent comics he publishes on the nervous system. See more on his Tumbler page here.
Proposed NIH And NEI 2015 Budget
The new 2015 Budget proposal released by Health and Human Services for the NIH has been finalized. This is a proposal released by the White House as a suggestion to Congress on how to distribute federal funds related to research. As we know, this relationship has been contentious to say the least coming at the …