Tuesday, April 5, 2011

It's Not Rocket Science

(It's brain science.)

2009 Atkinson Series: Brainstorm

A brilliant series from a couple of years ago documenting the growing fusion of education and neuroscience. MRI's only came into wide use 20 years ago. Just imagine the next twenty. I think that downloading data directly into your brain is a bit far off, but here's hoping.

"We used to say that intelligence was 80 per cent genetic and 20 per cent environmental," says Martin Westwell, a neuroscientist in Adelaide at Flinders University. "Now we tend to say that it's 20 per cent genetic and 80 per cent environmental."

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