Philanthropy

I noticed a bit of entrepreneurial philanthropy on 10th February and this morning came across another. This time from a Norwegian engineer who arrived in the US a year or so after the end of the second world war, did very well for himself and now uses some, or perhaps, much of his money to promote various branches of science.

One of which is neuroscience, and one of the products is an interesting educational site called http://www.brainfacts.org/. The full story is to be found at http://www.kavlifoundation.org/.

The background to the illustration is the Carina Nebula and the bright blue blob is a positron emission tomographic image of a slice through a 20 year old human brain.