Supplemental: If you really want to see how tDCS works…
The brain-zapping process broken down, in an Informed Consent video:
And you can always try making your own device….
Month: February 2012
Zapping into flow.
New Scientist reawakens that old dream of turning on the creative juices as if you were turning on a tap… or flipping a switch:
… Read the rest “Zapping into flow.”I am in a lab in Carlsbad, California, in pursuit of an elusive
Home-cooked Parkinson’s.
BBC reports on neurologists who’ve managed to not only create brain cells in the lab – but to make Parkinson’s-diseased cells from scratch:
… Read the rest “Home-cooked Parkinson’s.”The breakthrough means
Tune into the li-fi.
Wired is all aglow over a new wireless transmission system that uses light instead of radio waves:
… Read the rest “Tune into the li-fi.”Using off-the-shelf electronics, he can stream videos using an ordinary light bulb fitted
Testosterone and bad ideas.
Irish Times reveals the link between lousy decision-making and the hormone linked to lust and aggression:
… Read the rest “Testosterone and bad ideas.”Dr Nick Wright and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at
Skin becomes brain
BBC News ponders what it means for our bodies when Stanford University professors start shuffling around our cellular building blocks. Not turning stem cells into other kinds of cells,… Read the rest “Skin becomes brain”
Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center
Let us take a moment, while contemplating the sleek engineering of the quiet engine sonic inlet, to consider that tie. That man is not a model. He is, in all likelihood, an engineer. An actual… Read the rest “Science Art: Quiet Engine Sonic Inlet, NASA Glenn Research Center”
Inside magic mushrooms… inside the MRI
Imperial College, London, is learning what makes psilocybin mushrooms *trippy* – and what that means for our brains:
… Read the rest “Inside magic mushrooms… inside the MRI”Professor David Nutt, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial
Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.
Who knows what dim, multiform entities could yet lurk for silent millennia beneath that hostile, white blanket of impervious snow and unrelenting wind? Washington Post is almost ready… Read the rest “Lovecraft report: Scientists set to disturb primordial lake, deep under Antarctic ice.”
Python problem grows in the Everglades
National Geographic is watching South Florida with a growing sense of unease over the alien monsters eating any creature who wanders into the Everglades:
… Read the rest “Python problem grows in the Everglades”…[T]his is “the