What I've been reading: 2008-06-01

• SCREECH (More Intelligent Life)
  Ferrari is putting carbon-ceramic brakes in all its cars. Paul Markillie goes from 160kph to zero in four seconds flat ...
• Bayesian theory in New Scientist (Reverendbayes's Weblog)
  Is this a unified theory of the brain?
• Space particles play with the mind (New Scientist)
  IT'S hardly unusual to find things flashing into your head as you fall asleep, but as Christer Fuglesang was settling down on his first night aboard the International Space Station it happened quite literally.
• A Computer That Can 'Read' Your Mind (NSF)
  Research team's work with brain scans and computational modeling an important breakthrough in understanding the brain and developing new computational tools