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Great Courses volume 8
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Brain imaging technology may be the most important development in intelligence research in the last 40 years. Explore positron emission tomography, or PET, which highlights areas of the brain that are working hardest. Learn that these data correlate in an unexpected way with intelligence.
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Reality is stranger than fiction. For every matter, there is anti-matter, when they meet they annihilate each other and emit energy, this led to Positron Emission Tomography which is a great tool to detect diseases. Did you know that it takes sunlight 10000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, and only 8 more minutes to reach earth? How many planets could be there with civilizations in them? Students often miss the beauty of the...
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"Winner of the 2005 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association" Joseph Dumit is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a coeditor of Cyborgs & Citadels and Cyborg Babies and Associate Editor of the journal Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry.
By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so...
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