The "umwelt" is the slice of an animal's ecosystem that it can sense. The rest is invisible....
New Scientist magazine features David Eagleman's time perception research as their cover story.
SUM has been turned into an opera at the Royal Opera House in London (Composer: Max Richter, Director: Wayne McGregor). The London Evening Standard hails the opera as "immersive, meditative and sweetly fascinating". Read about the background of the collaboration in Wired.
Why should the US invest in brain science? See David's opinion in the New York Times.