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The return of the BRAIN initiative notes
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BRAIN initiative notes

Summary

This is a continually updated collection of news, ideas/findings, and other tidbits related to the BRAIN initiative, promising biotechnologies, and neuroscience/biology in general. This is a really exciting time in neuroscience and I hope to capture a bit of that here.

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The notes are found at the link below. Enjoy!

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Updated on 01 April 2024.

-biafra
bahanonu [at] alum.mit.edu

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24 may 2013 | short story | spanish
Había terminado y salé para mi cocina. Tenía hambre pero este día no había comida dentro de mi despensa. Me fui y caminé hacienda[...] la Tport—una máquina que puede transportar una persona a otro lugar sin energía y tiempo. Cuando entré la máquina, toqué algunos botónes y esperé. Pero nada ocurrió y lo hice las mismas acciones otra vez—y nada ocurrió.

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