Synthetic Telepathy = In, Note Passing = Out [Communication] (2)
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With $4 million from the US Army, scientists at UC Irvine will study synthetic telepathy, otherwise known as sending and receiving messages using your mind. The scientists believe that this amazing new form of communication could benefit stroke victims who can't speak—but also aid soldiers in the battlefield. If it becomes popular enough, it will of course be abused by middle-school gossips and guys hoping to be like Mel Gibson in that crappy movie, too. ...
http://www.productivity501.com/the-zone/34/ (10)
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There are two things that will impact how much you get done. First, there is the amount of time you spend. Obviously, you can get more done in 20 minutes than in 2. The second is how focused you are. This factor is referred to as, being in “the zone”. When it comes to your personal productivity, the second factor is usually more important than the first. How many times have you spent 30 minutes ...
Introducing the Rat Brain Robot (1)
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Most robots wish they had a bit more rat brain in them After buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot’s control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. “We’ve had that happen. They just stop working and die off,” says Mark Hammond, the system’s creator. Video after the jump. (more…)
Why Sleep? (1)
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The Chemistry of Love (1)
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TED, always such a generous source of fascinating videos, offers this talk about the chemistry of love:Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.TED writes this about Helen Fisher:
Candace Pert on Larry King: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life (1)
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On August 2nd the following program was aired on Larry King Live on CNN. A portion of the transcript is reproduced here, with a link to the complete program (transcript).Change Your Mind, Change Your LifeAired August 2, 2008 - 21:00 ETLARRY KING, CNN HOST (voice-over): Tonight, "Change Your Mind, Change Your Life."UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The brain does not know the difference of what it sees
When Life Is Colored By a Point of View (1)
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I’ve had an interesting day. My synesthesia has been giving me troubles. It’s not the sort of thing an aspirin will cure. Synesthesia—specifically, in my case, grapheme → color synesthesia—is a neurological phenomenon that causes people to see letters and numbers in different colors. It’s not a “vision thing”–when I look at a page, my eyes see letters as they are. But somewhere on the way to my brain, the characters get a dye job. ...
Amazing DSI Brain Scanning Visualizes Your Mind's Inner Workings In 3D [This Is Your Brain] (12)
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What's that monkey thinking about when he's mushing down that banana or tossing feces at you? Well, you're looking at it—this is a map of where a macaque's thoughts live. It's made possible by new 3D visualization algorithms developed by neuroscientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston which render a brain's billions of individual neuron connections in full-color 3D, with each visible strand representing several tens of thousands of the too-small-to-image neural pathways. It's all ...
John Cleese Podcast #33: The Brain Explained (1)
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Novelty seekers are biased to the right (1)
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Most people show a slight bias to the left-hand side of space. In other words, presented with a horizontal line and asked to identify its midway point, most of us will mark a position slightly too far to the left. Increasingly, however, research is showing that individuals vary in the side of space to which they are biased - a minority are biased to the right. What's more, our spatial bias could be tied in ...
Caught in the Net (1)
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Mamori Oshii, the Japanese director, once said that “As humans have become more ‘mind-oriented’ and the environment has become more urban, some have forgotten the idea of the human body. As far as they’re concerned, the human body does not exist anymore.” Today, more people think that way than ever before, perhaps because who we are can now exist outside of ourselves, in our words. We can call someone around the world, and not be ...
The Loveliest Stroke Story (1)
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Every morning I wake up, and I still feel like me. My conscious experience feels stable, natural, consistent, and singular (me). However, as Jill Bolte Taylor, our speaker and brain scientist describes, the two halves of our brains have distinctly separate experiences. They function very differently from one another and care about different things entirely. Having a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain and having left-brain functions individually shut down gave to ...
Juggling can change brain structure within 7 days (1)
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A new study just published in PLoS One reports that learning to juggle alters the structure of motion detection areas in the brain within as little as 7 days. Led by neuroscientist Joenna Driemeyer, the study builds on a previous research that also found juggling could alter brain structure, although this previous study waited three months before the brain was checked for alterations using high resolution structural MRI scans. This new study also took 20 ...
Stephen Hawking In LEGO Form (4)
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This is Stephen Hawking in LEGO form. I have no idea of the maker's intentions, but it was posted with this comment: Professor Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics - Cambridge University. BEST WISHES ON YOUR TRIP TO THE STARS So I'm thinking the person was being genuine. Regardless, I think we can all agree that Hawking is one of the most brilliant minds of our time and I'm dumb as hell. ...
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OMG! It's scary how much it really looks like him!
Are you a "failure"? (1)
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GOOD! So am I...many times over. And I'm excited about that, because I learned long ago that you learn more from your failures than from your successes. Reggie Jackson struck out more than ANYONE else who ever played in Major League Baseball. 2597 times. That's a lot of failure. But he also hit 563 home runs and is in the Hall of Fame because he was WILLING to fail that much. So you need to ...
Stroke of Genius-Unbelievable Story! (1)
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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
Brain Blogging, Thirty-Seventh Edition | Brain Blogger (1)
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Welcome to the thirty-seventh edition of Brain Blogging. In this round, we try to uncover the neuropathology of Asperger’s syndrome, correlate sleep disturbances with chronic fatigue syndrome, link OCD to specific neuroanatomy, and discuss several brain fitness techniques. Remember, we review the latest blogs related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective. If you were left out, just leave a comment with your blog ...
