Science Buzz Lunch in Bldg 1, Mixer Room, 9-25-2012
Topics discussed:
1) The recent publication in Current Biology of the paper by Sakai et al. comparing fetal brain development as measured by 3D ultrasonography in humans and chimpanzees, which have similar gestation periods (human: 38 weeks; chimpanzee: 34 - 35 weeks). Human fetal brains showed continously increasing brain growth velocity from 14 weeks until 34 weeks of gestation, in contrast to chimpanzee fetal brains, which showed a similar increase of brain growth velocity from 14 until 22 weeks of gestation, but a sharp decrease of this velocity thereafter
2) Professor Shinichi Mochizuki's recently published solution to the abc conjecture
Topics discussed:
1) The recent publication in Current Biology of the paper by Sakai et al. comparing fetal brain development as measured by 3D ultrasonography in humans and chimpanzees, which have similar gestation periods (human: 38 weeks; chimpanzee: 34 - 35 weeks). Human fetal brains showed continously increasing brain growth velocity from 14 weeks until 34 weeks of gestation, in contrast to chimpanzee fetal brains, which showed a similar increase of brain growth velocity from 14 until 22 weeks of gestation, but a sharp decrease of this velocity thereafter
2) Professor Shinichi Mochizuki's recently published solution to the abc conjecture
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