Σερενάτα: ένα βιβλίο – ύμνος στον έρωτα

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Λιβανελί, Ζ. (2013), Σερενάτα, Αθήνα: Πατάκης

      Όλα ξεκινούν μια κρύα ημέρα του Φεβρουαρίου του 2001, όταν η Μάγια Ντουράν, τριάντα έξι ετών, υπεύθυνη δημοσίων σχέσεων του Πανεπιστημίου της Ιστανμπούλ, υποδέχεται στο αεροδρόμιο της πόλης τον γερμανικής καταγωγής Αμερικανό καθηγητή Μαξιμίλιαν Βάγκνερ, ετών ογδόντα επτά.

The Brain, in Exquisite Detail

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Mapping the Highways of the Brain

Deanna Barch and her colleagues are trying to map connections in the human brain. The study is part of The Human Connectome Project.

 

By JAMES GORMAN, The New York Times, JAN. 6, 2014

 

ST. LOUIS — Deanna Barch talks fast, as if she doesn’t want to waste any time getting to the task at hand, which is substantial. She is one of the researchers here at Washington University working on the first interactive wiring diagram of the living, working human brain.

To build this diagram she and her colleagues are doing brain scans and cognitive, psychological, physical and genetic assessments of 1,200 volunteers. They are more than a third of the way through collecting information. Then comes the processing of data, incorporating it into a three-dimensional, interactive map of the healthy human brain showing structure and function, with detail to one and a half cubic millimeters, or less than 0.0001 cubic inches.