Nerd on the fringe of society plotting combinatorial explosion ala Pinky and the Brain. Brain: Here we are, Pinky—at the dawn of time! Pinky: Narf, Brain. Wake me at the noon of time. For all of my interests, please see my bookmarks or email me at craig.overend [at gmail dotcom] Identity is the sum of identifiers:Tumblr (3.0; @neuraxon77)http://craigoverend.com/<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/acs-sf062211.php">'Super sand' for better purification of drinking water</a>: <p>he researchers used a simple method to coat sand grains with graphite oxide, creating a super sand that successfully removed mercury and a dye molecule from water. In the mercury test, ordinary sand…</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/7143300813http://craigoverend.com/post/7143300813Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:53:49 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BicycleDesign/~3/N4xWqsFQULw/">City Electric Bicycle by Vojtěch Sojka</a>: <p>His design features a hydroformed aluminum frame with the motor positioned in the bottom bracket, for a clean look and better weight distribution than a motor in the rear hub. And an Alfine in the…</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/6903034974http://craigoverend.com/post/6903034974Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:38:13 -0400<a href="http://www.livescience.com/14721-city-living-stresses-brain.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29">How City Living Stresses the Brain | Urban Life, Mental Illness & Stress | LiveScience</a>: <p>During the stressful task, students who were living in cities showed increased activity in a brain region called the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (PACC), while those who lived in cities in…</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/6822440604http://craigoverend.com/post/6822440604Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:08:12 -0400<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl201516g">Omnidirectional 3D Nanoplasmonic Optical Antenna Array via Soft-Matter Transformation - Nano Letters (ACS Publications)</a>: <p>Inspired by the natural processes during morphogenesis, we demonstrate the transformation capability of active soft-matter to define nanoscale metal-on-polymer architectures below the resolution…</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/6781524997http://craigoverend.com/post/6781524997Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:57:32 -0400<p>Due to Tumblr removing the RSS imports service, this site is no longer updated. Please refer to <a title="Bookmarks" href="http://delicious.com/neuraxon77/">my bookmarks.</a></p>http://craigoverend.com/post/6648284603http://craigoverend.com/post/6648284603Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:34:47 -0400<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/se-radio/~5/mm9oMfrO9gM/seradio-episode84-dickGabrielOnLisp.mp3">Episode 84: Dick Gabriel on Lisp (mp3)</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/901282947http://craigoverend.com/post/901282947Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:15:00 -0400<a href="http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~dac/iva.html">Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/892256284http://craigoverend.com/post/892256284Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:48:21 -0400<a href="http://physicsworld.com/blog/2010/07/witten_lecture_online.html#container">String theory woven in twists and turns (Blog) - physicsworld.com</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/886035765http://craigoverend.com/post/886035765Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:10:45 -0400<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/ucl-pot071310.php">Part of the brain that tracks limbs in space discovered</a>: <p>Scientists have identified an area of the human brain called the parietal cortex that constructs this body model from the combination of tactile information from your skin (for example, where the…</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/886035729http://craigoverend.com/post/886035729Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:10:45 -0400<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/uops-nrf071410.php">New role for master regulator in cell metabolism, response to stress</a>: <p>AMPK binds directly to sites on chromosomes called promoters that regulate gene expression related to cell metabolism.</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/886035761http://craigoverend.com/post/886035761Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:10:45 -0400<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100714/full/466310a.html?s=news_rss">Topological insulators: Star material : Nature News</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/884189634http://craigoverend.com/post/884189634Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:50:58 -0400<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305282">[math/0305282] A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes, Incompleteness and Fixed Points</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/884189631http://craigoverend.com/post/884189631Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:50:58 -0400<a href="http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(10)00129-0/abstract">Seeing Gray When Feeling Blue? Depression Can Be Measured in the Eye of the Diseased</a>: <p>Unmedicated and medicated depressed patients displayed dramatically lower retinal contrast gain. We found a strong and significant correlation between contrast gain and severity of depression. This…</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/884189627http://craigoverend.com/post/884189627Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:50:58 -0400<a href="http://scicurious.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/depression-and-glia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ResearchBloggingNeuroscienceEnglish+%28Research+Blogging+-+English+-+Neuroscience%29">Depression and Glia « Are you Scicurious?</a>: <p>chronically stressed rats had LESS GLIA than unstressed rats. This meant that the stress itself reduced the glia.</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/884189622http://craigoverend.com/post/884189622Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:50:58 -0400<a href="http://focus.aps.org/story/v26/st5">Triangular Hole Reveals Light's Rotation</a>: <p>A property of light called orbital angular momentum can be directly measured by sending the beam through a triangular aperture and counting the spots that appear in the diffraction pattern.</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/883407493http://craigoverend.com/post/883407493Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:21:06 -0400<a href="http://www.myamicus.co.uk/content.php">Amicus 18 - Amicus Welcome Page</a>: <p>PIC-based Arduino clone with it’s own (Windows only) IDE.</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/883407490http://craigoverend.com/post/883407490Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:21:06 -0400<a href="http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html">DPI Calculator / PPI Calculator</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/882145277http://craigoverend.com/post/882145277Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:39:07 -0400<a href="http://www.openpicus.com/">openPICUS - Opensource Wireless Internet of Things</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/871703089http://craigoverend.com/post/871703089Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:00 -0400<a href="http://blogs.intel.com/research/2010/07/50g-link.php">The 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link</a>: <p>Intel. 4 channel x 12.5 Gbps multiplexed transmitter and receiver. No transceiver? :(</p>http://craigoverend.com/post/868365711http://craigoverend.com/post/868365711Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:58:14 -0400<a href="http://www.jcmit.com/mem2009.htm">Graph of Memory Prices Decreasing with Time</a>http://craigoverend.com/post/863552171http://craigoverend.com/post/863552171Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:28:45 -0400