Harvard s Whitesides Gives Brilliant Critique of Mammoth U.S. Brain Project

[caption id="attachment_1827" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="George Whitesides"] [/caption]The Obama administration's Big Brain project--$100 million for a map of some sort of what lies beneath the skull--has captured the attention of the entire field of neuroscience. The magnitude of the cash infusion can't help but draw notice, eliciting both huzzahs mixed with gripes that the whole effort might sap support for other perhaps equally worthy neuro-related endeavors. [More]