Poster: Lifelong Bilingualism Is Associated With Larger Grey And White Matter Volumes In The Temporal Lobe. RK Olsen et al. Rotman Reserach Institute Baycrest. Here’s another reason to learn a second language: bilingualism staves off “senile moments” well into your 70s. With aging, our cognition inevitably declines – some faster than others. One brake that […]

I am sorry for lack of blog posts for the past few days, the reasons for this lack of blog post is that it has been quiet in Iceland for past two weeks. Money issues have also been … Continue reading →

Lowell Trott, one of the theory students here at UCI, successfully defended his thesis yesterday. Lowell's Ph.D. advisor is Mike Goodrich, but I've also worked with him on several publications related to both social networks and road networks. (Although the vertices in road networks are not people, the networks still come from a social structure.) Specifically, he:Showed that road networks have the property that any line of sight crosses only a small number of roads, both empirically and in a […]

Imagine that you slept for the first 17 years of your life.  Then, all at once, you and your siblings are awakened simultaneously and given 4 weeks to physically and sexually mature, find a mate, do your business, and lay your eggs before you (all together now) die. That’s life, if you’re a cicada.  And […]

Using CT scan, doctors modeled and printed bioplastic splint to keep airway open.