Military wing of BAe Systems (formerly British Aerospace) confirms it has launched an anti-gravity research program.

Captive audience with a ringside seat.

If you’re interested in cognitive neuroscience, keep following the leaps and bounds coming out of fMRI (functional MRI) studies. They are the most exciting window into the localization of function in the CNS we’ve had. For example, this: People with autism and Asperger Syndrome process faces as objects, Yale study of brain abnormalities finds. The study demonstrates reduced activity in the part of the brain subsuming facial recognition as well as increased activity in an adjacent area processing non-face objects.It seems to me that finding such an impairment in the neural substrate of a function so crucial to the essence of human interaction goes a long way to explaining the etiology of the profound social interaction deficits that characterize autism and other so-called “pervasive developmental disorders” such as Asperger’s Syndrome.

Toddler diet influences adolescent test scores “Toddlers fed a wide variety of foods may have a long-term academic

edge over children fed more restricted diets, researchers conclude.

…(S)tudies have suggested that children fed diets consisting of only a few types

of food are more likely to be deficient in specific ‘micronutrients’ such as iron or zinc.”

Several months ago it was a British laptop with British state secrets; now: FBI Looks for Laptop Missing With U.S. Secrets

“A laptop computer which may have held classified

information disappeared from the State Department about two months ago and the

FBI is investigating whether it was stolen, the State Department said Monday.”