Category Archives: Medicine

How science heals amputees

May 18, 2011 – 6:43 pm

Check out this great movie on the BBC website: a young amputee decided to replace his non-functional hand with a robotic one. The new hand allows him to perform tasks as tying a shoe, opening a bottle, and fully rotate around the wrist, something not possible for a human hand. This is impressive on so [...]

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Does chamomile really relax ?

February 25, 2011 – 12:45 am

Nothing says relax better than a peaceful evening in front of a steamy cup of chamomile. Since thousands of years, humanity uses it as a natural remedy for a large amount of ailments, most notably hypertension, sleeplessness and to ease a flu-dominated night, like in my case recently. Moved by curiosity, I took some time [...]

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Hacking your brain for fun

August 3, 2010 – 1:30 am

I just came back from Nolan’s latest creation, Inception, and I was completely blown away. The core of the very elaborate plot is the concept of dreaming and consciousness levels inside dreams, in particular taking advantage of the science-fiction concept of “shared dreams”. Not unlike in The Matrix, questions about “what is real, what is [...]

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