Mumboi's Mind

Tracking Dopamine in the Brain

New sensor could reveal the neurotransmitter’s role in learning and habit formation.

Lego announces new set themed around the women of NASA

Toy manufacturer Lego Group has announced it will be creating a set of Legos based around the women of NASA, Community Specialist Hasan Jensen wrote in a blog post for the company on Tuesday.

The idea for the project was originally pitched by Maia Weinstock, who submitted it to Lego through the company’s Lego Ideas program.

The set will include five women who contributed to NASA’s mission, including computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, mathematician Katherine Johnson, astronaut Sally Ride, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and astronaut Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to enter space in 1992. Read more (2/28/17 5:53 PM)

Reactions to Donald Trump labelling news media “the enemy of the American people” from: 

David Axelrod, former adviser to President Barack Obama

Carl Bernstein, investigative journalist and author who covered the Watergate scandal and was the first to suspect that Nixon was involved

Gabriel Sherman, national affairs editor at New York magazine

Eliot A. Cohen, scholar of international affairs and former counselor in the United States Department of State

Jesse Berney, writer and activist

Andy Greenwald, writer and critic

16/100 days of productivity // 06.05.16

Sadly I’m a bit late for the Star Wars day but I really enjoyed all the posts related to it, so I decided to add mine anyways. Please forgive me the lateness :) In terms of productivity I’m still not really happy with myself, too much procrastinating, but I’m really motivated right now and trying to make the most of the rest of the day!

A different kind of light, Scotland.

As the Trump administration hunts for the source of a series of politically embarrassing leaks that have plagued the young administration, dozens of White House …

The attack comes on the heels of a similar attack at a cemetery in suburban St. Louis and a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community …

Martello Tower Y is a small defensive fort that was one of more than 100 built along the English coastline to resist a potential invasion by Napoleon 200 years ago…

Sean Spicer, December 2016: “We have a respect for the press. When it comes to the government, that is something that you can’t ban an entity from. I think that’s what makes a democracy a democracy, versus a dictatorship.”

Sean Spicer, February 2017: CNN, New York Times, Politico, and other news outlets are banned from a White House press briefing. 

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