Corporate telepathy
New York Times takes a quick look at how retailers virtually read our minds by clocking all the little details:
… Read the rest “Corporate telepathy”There are, however, some brief periods in a person’s life when old routines
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“The first human-humanoid handshake in space.”
That’s how ISS Commander Daniel Burbank describes his interaction with Robonaut 2 yesterday. PhysOrg has more on the space station’s new, robot crew member:
… Read the rest ““The first human-humanoid handshake in space.””On Wednesday,
Large Hadron researchers: “MORE POWER!”
BBC reports that the Large Hadron Collider is driving toward a new breakthrough. All the physicists have to do is put the pedal to the metal:
… Read the rest “Large Hadron researchers: “MORE POWER!””Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Toxic oil is toxic.
PhysOrg has bad news for the Gulf of Mexico. Oil spills are even more toxic than we thought:
… Read the rest “Toxic oil is toxic.”The study, spearheaded by the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in collaboration with NOAA, looked
Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.
TG Daily reports on a new hope for clearing up our old landfills – by feeding the plastic to a very special rain-forest mushroom:
… Read the rest “Plastic-eating mushrooms clean us up.”Pestalotiopsis microspora, found in the jungles of
Science Art: “Engine of the Veteran Association” from Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Department, 1899.
This device paraded at the inaugurations of President Grover Cleveland and the Statue of Liberty.
It also put out fires, nobly, before the turn of the last century.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Engine of the Veteran Association” from Our Firemen: A History of the New York Fire Department, 1899.”
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….
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.”