How big science failed to unlock the mysteries of the human brain | MIT Technology Review

How big science failed to unlock the mysteries of the human brain | MIT Technology Review: In September 2011, a group of neuroscientists and nanoscientists gathered at a picturesque estate in the English countryside for a symposium meant to bring their two fields together.  At the meeting, Columbia University neurobiologist Rafael Yuste and Harvard geneticist George Church made a not-so-modest proposal: to map the activity of the entire human brain at…