Venkatesh Murthy

@UtopianCynic

Neuroscience Professor , tweeting personally

Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2016.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 30. sij

    A stunning poem by in the Feb 2020 issue of . So many vivid lines - "... frozen larks plummeting through the gloam like falling stars..." & "... blackbirds flap frantic from the forks of trees..."

  2. 27. sij

    Discovered only recently after seeing her at a concert in Cambridge and have been utterly captivated by her music. Here's Indo Blue (a take on the classic Afro Blue by Mongo Santamaria, of course) from her album Aikyam: onnu

  3. 19. sij

    Insect with a missing leg on my Macbook - any idea what this is ?

  4. 17. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    Not a poem, but I think this passage in Paul Harding's book Tinkers, on the onset of an epileptic seizure is astonishing poetry:

  5. 6. sij

    Theoretical evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith was born 100 years ago today. I am no expert at all in his field of study, but I love reading his brilliant and lucid writing. Two in my office bookcases:

  6. 4. sij

    Like many, I'm rattled about what's happening. Here's some Theodore Roethke to evoke an America to love. Ends with: "I stay up half the night To see the land I love."

  7. 3. sij

    pattern = f(sun, window, floor);

  8. 25. pro 2019.

    Lovely day in the Boston area. Different ambient light at the start and end of a nice walk around the Chestnut Hill reservoir. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or just Happy Downtime for heathens like me.

  9. 24. pro 2019.
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    This is also another issue IMO - easier courses get higher ratings. About a decade ago, I regressed some student-reported variables against each other for our departmental courses and got the graph below (1 is bad/easy, 5 is good/hard).

  10. 20. pro 2019.

    I see a lot of neuroscientists posting their recorded spike trains, proudly. Here's mine, with pride, from the stone age (well, a 1992 paper with Eb Fetz, )

  11. 20. pro 2019.

    "All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold." - William Carlos Williams

  12. 20. pro 2019.

    Ivy (league) in winter. [outside the Fogg ]

  13. 13. pro 2019.
    Odgovor korisniku/ci
  14. 29. stu 2019.

    From the December issue, this evocative poem by . Love these lines -"Loud the quieter times, and quiet loudest still, ..."

  15. 27. stu 2019.

    The most physics-y titled poems ever, these three lovely ones by in the December issue of :

  16. 27. stu 2019.

    How did I not know about this version of Killing Moon by Pavement?! cc

  17. 24. stu 2019.

    Breaking: Two white male Americans discover that >35% of the world eats crappy food.

  18. 17. stu 2019.

    Can't wait to dig into this paper (on synthetic optogenetic odors!) from the group.

  19. 12. stu 2019.
  20. 3. lis 2019.

    Three jazz literati just made my night. Time to sleep.

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