Jun 17 2010First 3-D Road Map Of A Brain's Connections
Note: Slightly larger shot HERE in case you want to plan a vacation or something.
This is a 3-D map of the neural connections in an owl-monkey's brain. Now I don't wanna jump to any conclusions, but I suspect it leads to buried treasure. Keep your eyes peeled for booby traps.
Van Wedeen, a Harvard radiology professor, is awestruck: "We've never really seen the brain - it's been hiding in plain sight." Conventional scanning has offered us a crude glimpse, but scientists such as Wedeen aim to produce the first ever three-dimensional map of all its neurons. They call this circuit diagram the "connectome", and it could help us better understand everything from imagination and language to the miswirings that cause mental illness. But with 100 billion neurons hooked together by more connections than there are stars in the MilkyWay, the brain is a challenge that represents petabyte-level data.
Petabyte-level data? Damn. Tell you what -- you feed me for a week and I'll let you map my brain. It's more on the kilobyte-level. Just don't complain when the map turns out to be an animated gif of a penis dancing to peanut butter jelly time.
First 3D Map of the Brain's Connections [gearfuse]
Thanks to Brian, who, if you reverse the I and A in his name spells Brain. COINCIDENCE? I think not! Yes.
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Reader Comments
1. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 11:06 AM
Its amazing that life (percieved in our minds) is really nothing but chemical reactions and electrical impuleses.... or somethin
2. FItz - June 17, 2010 11:07 AM
I feel like we're in the 70's... trippy!
3. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 11:09 AM
wait, wait, wait.... what the hell is an owl-monkey?!
and suck it firstards
:-O - - - -<====8
4. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 11:16 AM
click the link for a pic of owl monkey.... kinda what I imagine what firstards look like...
http://www.dwazoo.com/gallery/rainforest/mammals/images/owl%20monkey.png
5. dparks - June 17, 2010 11:21 AM
Followed only seconds later by the first "connectome" image of Professor Van Wedeen's penis.
You know you would!!
6. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 11:23 AM
don't you hate it when you write something clever only to have a new post two seconds later....
fucking firstard dicks
I fucked their mother last night
and i made them watch
7. naas=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿'̿ ̿ ̿̿ ٩(๏̯͡๏)۶ <- firstard - June 17, 2010 11:37 AM
That picture looks like what my dog would do to a rasta hat, it's just a stringy colorful mess
8. MarsHottentot - June 17, 2010 11:42 AM
Brain Activity: Cheap Punk Wig.
9. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 11:43 AM
@4 it looks like 2 firstards seeing a pair of breasts in the flesh for the fist time.... or somethin
10. -Lmega5- - June 17, 2010 11:52 AM
what the hell am i looking at? o_O
11. Guy - June 17, 2010 11:53 AM
That's what a gay's brain looks like
12. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 11:57 AM
this is your brain on acid.... and skittles
.... just sayin
13. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 12:02 PM
"Just don't complain when the map turns out to be an animated gif of a penis dancing to peanut butter jelly time."
made me LLOL... Literally Laugh Out Loud
.... just sayin
14. L - June 17, 2010 12:08 PM
Damn it GW, how the fuck am I supposed to halluicinate with all these swirling colors all over the God damn place.
15. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:21 PM
i wonder how many firstards are nutting over the next post which shows 0 comments but you can't comment on it yet.... anyone else have that problem
16. kenneth - June 17, 2010 12:23 PM
wait, when it flies, WTF R THE PROPELLERS??!! helicopter witchcraft magic returns? or am i being a dumbass.
17. L - June 17, 2010 12:24 PM
@ STOMPY, yes. I can smell firstard stink already.
18. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:26 PM
i enjoyed licking my mum out last night, she tasted like peanuts and rainbows.
im off now to eat my dads ass out. i hope it tastes like lime and sugar
19. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:27 PM
damn, now i can't get the peanut butter jelly time song out of my head....
20. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:28 PM
god damn it! im gunna have to get some peanut butter jelly time with my dad his ass and my dogs ass....
21. L - June 17, 2010 12:29 PM
I sit I'm thinking,
see the colors in my pee,
tasting the rainbow.
22. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:30 PM
first
23. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:30 PM
twenty third
24. L - June 17, 2010 12:31 PM
first for the next post!
25. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:33 PM
i likc my ass and smell my poop and eat my poop and my poop taste like my moms ass and it is good and i feel naass balls on my face and they taste like poo and i put cocks in my ass
26. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 12:34 PM
same problem here stompy..... i too wish my dad's asshole tasted more like pb&j.... i mean, i can't comment on the other post either
27. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:35 PM
i also hate vaginas and love balls and ball sacks and cram monkey crap in my ears while jerkin with mentol rub and watching hovercraft commericals
28. ciao - June 17, 2010 12:35 PM
looks like something I found in the dryer's lint catcher once...
but yeah I once thought of the brains connections, I was way off.
29. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:36 PM
ahhh, don't you just love when someone steals your handle and goes nuts with it.....
30. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:36 PM
me and you son, we gunna fuck allllll night. put it in my ass and i smile. i love you
31. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:41 PM
anyone wanna come my place and fuck me in the ass till i bleed out of my ears?
just let me know and ill give you my details. im wide like an elephant. some people call me blackhole stompy. ive managed to get a whole watermelon and three oranges in there at once before, and by in there i mean my asshole. i enjoy putting a bag of ice and a can of coke in my ass and using it as a lunch box. if you want to ill let you put your head inside me, have a look around and see what you think. its pretty deep
32. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 12:46 PM
hey stompy can i come ove4r and put my head in yoru arse and smell your poop and smear it on my face and eat some of your ass watermelon while watching gay japanese porn
33. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 12:46 PM
@31 if you're gonna steal someone's handle... at least be funny
34. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:47 PM
@33
i don't really mind though.... i'm such an attention whore i appreciate anything...
35. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 12:48 PM
@32... again, what i said in #33
36. Zing! - June 17, 2010 12:50 PM
@29 I think it has something to do with love ... or something.
37. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:50 PM
@35
at least we know what firstards do when they can't post first....
38. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - June 17, 2010 12:51 PM
That next alcohol post must be hell for the fistards.... kinda like putting a Pollack in a round room and telling him to stand in the corner
..... just sayin
39. Zing! - June 17, 2010 12:52 PM
@35 in your handle, the person's eyes, are those death stars?
40. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:55 PM
@39
thats no moon
41. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 12:57 PM
hey, anyone else ever mow the lawn while drinking half a bottle of vodka only to wake up the next morning and see how shitty of a job you did....
42. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 1:00 PM
hay gays
43. RiotDX - June 17, 2010 1:06 PM
Booby traps are the best kind! Trip them and you get showered with boobies?
44. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 1:07 PM
FUCK OFF, LEAVE MY HANDLE ALONE! moron firstards
45. shelbon - June 17, 2010 1:27 PM
Wow, By the time I got through those comments I forgot what being straight was like...just sayin
46. ��� STOMPY ���™ - June 17, 2010 1:33 PM
shelbon, you wanna make me bleed then?
47. shelbon - June 17, 2010 1:53 PM
only if it comes out of your ears
48. Amy - June 17, 2010 3:56 PM
Did GW seriously make a Pirates of Dark Water reference? WIN!