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They haven’t found the soul yet, but scientists have discovered a surprising surge of activity in the brains of near-death test animals.
-Still no word one way or another if Larry King is just one elaborately-syndicated “Weekend at Bernie’s” clockwork-android.
My vote? -Definitely!…
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(now hang on there just a sec! NOO hooking up jumper-cables to old Uncle Elmer’s noggin just yet there, young whippersnappers!)
In another step like fMRI, that makes detecting the “You” inside your head, or any activity much more likely,
Marcello Mastroianni Massimini and his team flipped-around an existing tool, mixed it up with some fancy maths,
And turned it into brain-sonar that finds the amount of consciousness still rattling around in your head…
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Ok, the pattern wasn’t taken Exactly from spiderwebs, but it’s damn close.
And if SpiderPig ever did ding a hoof, you know he’d wear something just like this.
As long as they can sort out the shock-absorption angle that looks as-yet missing, this looks like it might actually work, while also looking cool and being comfortable…
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This time, the girl-wonder’s turned her sights on a specific strain of Leukemia.
But more important than just the smackdown she’s about to layeth down on a very tough condition,
and even in-spite of the fact the final call will be probably be made by a specialist,
–is the likely fact that Brittany represents what the future of medicine might become:
Creativity, …
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As a bitter salve to help those of you who’ve skipped the Asparagus and are saddled with abjectly-Dickensian hangovers in the timesmudge loosely referred-to as “today”, I’d like to rub a little salt in your wounds and make it all go away.
Now the nickname could have gone one of many ways: ‘Dict, Shooter, Dragonbreath, Substance, Bender, or Sniffles.
(Cockroach has been reserved for Keith Richards for DECADES Centuries, now.)
But ultimately, it seemed prudent to just go with the obvious old stand-by.
Anyway: That’s right boys and girls. It turns out The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne himself, is a Mutant…
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Take that, Ray Kurzweil! -BAM!
Ok, fun’s over.
Though my informal guess involves some of my old pal Joseph Schumpeter’s work, and pattern-observation of real delays in predictions of the Web 1.0 Bubble,
It ultimately differs from Both Ray and Duke Neuroscientist, Miguel Nicolelis,
Who says the Singularity won’t happen. -Ever.…
Check out Professor Lee Cronin’s short but interesting take on where Medicine, Apps, Big Data For Chemistry and 3D Printers might go in the near future.
The implications sound pretty huge, especially for shipping-costs and disintermediation, if the process can be standardized and controlled.
*It REALLY would have to be in order to avoid scenarios like the following:
“Uh, we’re really sorry Mrs. Johnson, but we forgot a few atoms in there, and instead of HRT pills, you got Androgel 25.5%. Enjoy your new life as a man. -Yeah, I know. Shaving really is a pain. You get used to it though…”
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Not that it hasn’t been tried before, including spectacular girlfriend, Maria, in Fritz’ Lang’s “Metropolis”, but this time it’s for serious.
Our old lovable-scamp pal, Dr. Henry Markram is up to his old familiar hijinks; this time with something even more ambitious.
Not only has he figured out how brain-cells make connections,
Now he wants to do a hyper-accurate scan of an Actual Brain, with all 100 Billion of those neurons in it. -And the 150 Trillion Synapses that connect them, too.
Dr. Henry has some asplainin’ to do in the Vid after the Jump…
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