Images of the Brain

The New York Times has an article and a set of illustration from the new book, Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century. Included is this image that looks like a detail from a Gustav Klimt painting, but is actually an image of the Neocortex of the brain.

Visualizing the Beautiful Mind

Molecular Animation

A video from the New York Times on Molecular Animation.

Sleep Inducing Milk

An article, from guardian.co.uk, about a German company that has patented "nocturnal milk". That is milk with super high levels of melatonin.

German night milk may aid insomniacs

‘Ah-Choo!’

Fresh Air has an interesting interview with Jennifer Ackerman about her new book, Ah-Choo! The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold. Audio of the interview at the link below.

‘Ah-Choo!’ Takes On Mysteries Of The Common Cold

Glass Microbiology

Luke Jerram makes glass sculptures of viruses, including the swine flu shown below. The link below goes to his web site which has more images and video.

Glass Microbiology | Luke Jerram

Jellies @ the National Aquarium

I posted a video from the National Aquarium a while back when one of their dolphins gave birth. That baby dolphin only lived a couple weeks. Wild and captive dolphins have a very high infant mortality rate. The National Aquarium has raised up several baby dolphins, but, unfortunately, they all don't make it.

On to better subjects. here is a video made from one of the Aquarium's other current exhibit, Jellies Invasion.

New Arrival

As of March 10 the National Aquarium in Baltimore has a new dolphin. Below is a video of the birth, and you can read more on the Aquarium's Blog.

Why Sleep?

An interesting entry on the National Geographic Blog about sleep.

Why do we Sleep?