Wait, what?   Obama Plans 10-Year Project to Map Human Brain  In
his State of the Union address last week, President Obama made
several mentions of a commitment to science that caught our
attention. Now it seems some details about those plans are
surfacing. One area of study he mentioned in his speech was that
scientists are working to map the human brain, and it’s now
being reported that the President wants to launch a decade-long
program to create the most detailed map of the active human
brain to date.  The program is expected to cost billions, but to
allay the negative reaction to the price tag Obama also pointed
out the huge return on investment the economy saw with similar
research. “Every dollar we invested to map the human genome
returned $140 to our economy — every dollar,” said the
President. This refers to a study done by the federal government
that said the $3.8 billion invested in the Human Genome Project
since 1990 saw a return of $800 billion.  Several scientists
have already said they are invo