The Next Bruce Lee

Ok, this isn’t a science post, but this film looks pretty cool (by the film makers who made Better Luck Tomorrow).

Awake and conscious?

Robert Burton’s latest Mind Reader article in Salon discusses a recent paper in the Archives of Neurology about a clinically unconscious woman who can respond to certain commands, producing the same fMRI activity as a normal, conscious brain. At first glance, this is quite a result. Can someone in a vegetative state actually be conscious [...]