"I had a personality. Now I have Hitachi. 
The most immediate way to improve the quality of your coffee at home is to actually drop some decent cash on a good grinder. Avoid the "whirly blade" variety, as they slice the beans at odd angles. You want a uniform, spherical grind by a machine that doesn't heat the beans too much as they go through. Go for a solid quality burr grinder and you will see an immediate improvement in your cafe. For home use, a doser, the part you see teh barista smack to the side to drop grounds into the holder, is not necessary. 'Stepped' refers to whether there are set increments that the grinder is 'stepped' to for the grind size. Some people swear by steppless grinders because they, in theory, have an infinite number of steps, but as long as each step is small, most people agree it isn't a big deal.
Next, try using a gold filter - the reusable type that need to be washed after each use. These don't absorb the oils, like paper filters, and are probably the cheapest way to get better coffee.
Consider french press instead of fancy coffee machines. You can adjust the strength to your liking, though you risk getting grinds in your teeth. It requires more attention, but the setup costs very little and can easily be tweaked.
Mind Hacks has a little ditty on the Center for Neuro Skills animation gallery. I've been looking for a good resource for neuroscience animations, and it looks like I need to keep looking (these are about the quality of my high school AP reports over a decade ago). Seriously, these look like someone whipped out MS Paint and went to town while blindfolded. Still, maybe someone could get some use out of them...
I cannot imagine how it feels to deal with the loss of an appendage, and how that alters the image a person might have of their own body. It must be one of the most difficult challenges a person can face in the way it impacts them in day-to-day life. But, there are those that have taken this taboo topic and really shown beauty is more than just skin and bones. It gets me thinking. Is trying to hide the issue actually causing the insecurity? Does amputation amplify preexisting insecurities and provide something to blame for one's poor self-image? We've become so used to trying to cover up our blemishes with a never-ending contortionist's game of makeup, surgery, and fads that maybe just being 'real' is refreshing.
To create their self-healing materials, the researchers begin by building a scaffold using a robotic deposition process called direct-write assembly. The process employs a concentrated polymeric ink, dispensed as a continuous filament, to fabricate a three-dimensional structure, layer by layer.
Once the scaffold has been produced, it is surrounded with an epoxy resin. After curing, the resin is heated and the ink – which liquefies – is extracted, leaving behind a substrate with a network of interlocking microchannels.
In the final steps, the researchers deposit a brittle epoxy coating on top of the substrate, and fill the network with a liquid healing agent.
In the researchers’ tests, the coating and substrate are bent until a crack forms in the coating. The crack propagates through the coating until it encounters one of the fluid-filled “capillaries” at the interface of the coating and substrate. Healing agent moves from the capillary into the crack, where it interacts with catalyst particles. If the crack reopens under additional stress, the healing cycle is repeated.
Development of a BIONic Muscle Spindle for Prosthetic Proprioception
Sachs, N. A.; Loeb, G. E.Page(s): 1031-1041
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TBME.2007.892924
AbstractPlus Full Text: PDF (2480 KB)
A Multichannel Semicircular Canal Neural Prosthesis Using Electrical Stimulation to Restore 3-D Vestibular Sensation
Della Santina, C. C.; Migliaccio, A. A.; Patel, A. H.Page(s): 1016-1030
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TBME.2007.894629
AbstractPlus Full Text: PDF (1399 KB)
J Neurosci
The Influence of Expected Value on Saccadic Preparation
David M. Milstein and Michael C. Dorris
The Journal of Neuroscience, May 2, 2007, 27(18):4810-4818;
doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0577-07.2007
Dissociating Timing and Coordination as Functions of the Cerebellum
Jörn Diedrichsen,1,2 Sarah E. Criscimagna-Hemminger,1 and Reza Shadmehr1
The Journal of Neuroscience, June 6, 2007, 27(23):6291-6301; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0061-07.2007
The Relation of Brain Oscillations to Attentional Networks
Jin Fan,1,2 Jennie Byrne,1 Michael S. Worden,3 Kevin G. Guise,1 Bruce D. McCandliss,4 John Fossella,1 and Michael I. Posner4,5
The Journal of Neuroscience, June 6, 2007, 27(23):6197-6206; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1833-07.2007
Awfully Afraid? Dissociating Decision- from Motor- and Sensory-Related Brain Activation during Perceptual Choices
Philippe N. Tobler1 and Tobias Kalenscher2
The Journal of Neuroscience, June 6, 2007, 27(23):6081-6082; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1478-07.2007
Trends in Neuro:
The topographic brain: from neural connectivity to cognitionPages 251-259Jean-Philippe Thivierge and Gary F. MarcusSummaryPlus Full Text + Links PDF (1008 K)
Thalamic synchrony and dynamic regulation of global forebrain oscillationsIn Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 4 June 2007, John R. Huguenard and David A. McCormickSummaryPlus Full Text + Links PDF (271 K)
(Plus several papers on oscillatory activity...)
J Neurophys:
