Manly Moustaches of the Animal Kingdom, Day 23:
“W is for a Wombat Sleeping on a Walrus”
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“Manly Moustaches of the Animal Kingdom” shows manly animals with manly moustaches* thinking manly thoughts.
It is a very artistic project which makes woman susceptible to being tied to railway tracks and men wear top hats and use old-timey phrases like “Huzzah!” and “23 skidoo!”.
You have been blessed with this gift of pure beauty in order to draw your attention to my participation in Movember.
Movember is when men grow moustaches in the month of November to raise money and awareness for men’s health, especially prostate cancer. There will be a new picture posted to the series every day in Movember.
If you enjoy “Manly Moustaches of the Animal Kingdom” — and how could you not? — then all I ask is for your kind monetary support:
Thank you.
* In the U.S., “moustache” is spelled “mustache”, except in Mississippi where it is spelled “Em-You-Ess-Ess-You-Ess-Ess-You-Pee-Pee-stache”.
Mimicking the brain, in silicon (via MIT News)
New computer chip models how neurons communicate with each other at synapses:
For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks.
MIT researchers have now taken a major step toward that goal by designing a computer chip that mimics how the brain’s neurons adapt in response to new information. This phenomenon, known as plasticity, is believed to underlie many brain functions, including learning and memory.
With about 400 transistors, the silicon chip can simulate the activity of a single brain synapse — a connection between two neurons that allows information to flow from one to the other. The researchers anticipate this chip will help neuroscientists learn much more about how the brain works, and could also be used in neural prosthetic devices such as artificial retinas, says Chi-Sang Poon, a principal research scientist in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Choose your favorite film from this great stylized movie poster collection created by artist Alejandro de Antonio Fernández.
Movie Posters by Alejandro de Antonio Fernández (Behance) (Twitter)
