Apparently, there is a school in Argentina where you won’t get your face hoof-murdered right the hell off [immediately?] for doing this stuff.
Otherwise;… Wow. I got nuthin’…
–Okay, other than Sarah Jessica Parker…
Elizabeth Bathory Was Right: Young-Blood Transfusion Is The Solution To Aging
The Old Wives’ Tales Were Right:
-Ok, Elizabeth, Bram Stoker, and a million folk-tales across human history.
Well, scientists are proving these oldey-timey, gruesome omens just about right.
In what is actually just the latest in a history of experiments,
It turns out that blood transfused from a younger one to an older one Does in-fact make the older one a LOT more sprightly.
I only heard about this a year or two ago in the last big experiment, but it looks like…
Read More >Your Brain May Be Sleep-Deprived But At Least That Morning Coffee Helps You Remember Why
With all the recent bad news about sleep-problems being more serious than we thought before, here’s a bit of good news:
Coffee may be helping your brain in ways we didn’t previously know.
In this instance, a group of about 160 non-coffee-drinking adults were given pills while studying a series of images. One group got caffeine in those pills, and the other got placebos.
It turns out the caffeine group did noticeably-better on a certain type of deep-memory test 24 hours later…
Read More >This Is Your Brain’s LC On Sleep-Debt or Provigil: As Horrific As Christian Bale’s Physique In “The Machinist”
And here we thought cats were lazy. They were just being Geniuses. Why? Read-on:
Results of the study by UPenn will probably strike sheer-terror into the hearts of late-shift-workers, college-students, Zach Braffs, and new-parents alike.
Their CSCN team decided to test what it’s like for the Brain after an All-Nighter or going past your natural bedtime due to a late-shift job.
And One thing they found was: Your brain is OK at recovering after a little missed-sleep-cycle on a [very] short-term basis.
HOWEVER, The Other Thing they found was…
Sherlock Doesn’t Need To Know The Earth Goes Round The Sun And Neither Should You. -Because Your Brain Forgets On-Purpose
John: […]Or that the earth goes around the sun.
Sherlock: Oh God, that again! It’s not important!
John: Not important? It’s primary school stuff! How can you not know that?
Sherlock: Well, if I ever did, I’ve deleted it.
John: “Deleted it”?
Sherlock: Listen. This is my hard-drive, and it only makes sense to put things in there that are useful. Really useful. Ordinary people fill their heads with all kinds of rubbish, and that makes it hard to get at the stuff that matters! Do you see?
Well it turns out that high-functioning-sociopath Sherlock! & your brain have something in-common.
For the first-time, researchers have discovered that it has a Protein, named after one of the world’s most awesome swordsmen –or cats as the case may be,
That purposely-destabilizes synapses between some neurons in your brain,
-Actively making you more-likely to Forget…
Read More >Thought “Glassholes” Were Bad? Well Break Out The Kevlar Pants-Suit Betty White, Because Soon They’ll Upgrade To Predator-Vision
Adding to the potential horror that could be the one-day widespread adoption of Google Glass,
A few sneaky researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a new twist on a the vintage x-ray-specs peepshow-kink: Personal Predator-Vision…
-on a Contact Lens…
Choc To The Heart And Your Gut’s To Blame. Darlin, Bacteria Gives Cocoa, -A Grand Name
Need another reason to love cocoa & dark chocolate?
Well you just got one, lady.
A new study out by LSU shows a very very lucky quirk about the composition of our friend the fermented, dried, roasted & ground cacao. And it makes all the difference.
So, one of the problems with actually getting beneficial compounds into you like antioxidants, polyphenols, & epi-catechins is “The Last Mile”.
You may get them into your supermarket, your cart, your mouth,…
3D-Printing To The Rescue Again! -This Time: Reconstructing A Machinehead
Awhile ago Stephen Power, like many unfortunate motorcyclists, got into a very serious wreck.
He didn’t die.
-But he Did break: both arms, both cheek bones, both eye-sockets, his upper jaw, his right leg so badly it needed a bone-graft, and for the hat-trick he also managed to crack his skull.
So OK, not good. But, before they decided to give 3D-reconstruction-wizard…
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