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+Oh, and also: She’s a 17-year-old high-school junior and winner of this year’s Google Science Fair Grand Prize.
As if that weren’t enough, BW tried out a bunch of commercially-available Neural Networks and decided they just weren’t accurate enough.
So, spurred-on by the difficulties one of her cousins was going through, she just picked up a programming textbook, taught herself Java and Built Her Own Damn Neural-Network…
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And in-keeping with the recent theme of Mind/Brain, NPR,
And the inspirational invention of thought-to-text fMRI computer-brain-interface by Bettina Sorger and her team,
A [love] story that will absolutely destroy every single last gram of public composure you thought you had.
Better sneak off and find yourself a private spot where you can just bawl your eyes out and not be embarrassed…
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Similar to the previous groundbreaking operation for a manufactured trachea,
a ten-year-old girl in Sweden was spared the considerable future discomfort from outrageous prices at the BMW Water-Pump Casino normal replacement-harvesting via the somatic-Jesus of a bioengineered part; this time a major blood vessel.
She’d had a blocked vein to her liver and was experiencing…
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Holy Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Batman!
Smack My Bitch Up, Hans!
So the brain isn’t a “bowl of spaghetti”?
The awesome handiwork of The Spanish Leonardo Da Vinci aside,
The team of MRI-packing researchers from Harvard, MIT, BU, etc. led by Van Wedeen has come up with a new connection-map, or connectome of the brain,…
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UPDATE! The WHO Came out with a new study that clarifies much. Read first!
I have to admit I was F***ing FLOORED when Harvard released a study that basically says, “If you are within 6 Degrees of Ron Swanson’s bacon-suffused prevailing-wind-fart-contrail, you’re as good as dead.”
But the more I thought of it, the more it seemed like a case of what economists like to call “Statistical-Reacharound-Surprise”, than anything else…
Ok, awhile ago we theorized here that as total bodyfat % increased, the body would start losing its thyroid-mojo and a given person would go into a downward spiral.
The idea was at least 1-fold. MINIMUM!
!Insulation Overload!
SO: We thought that as weight went up, that…
It won’t take quite that long to watch,
But you MUST check out this brilliant, cutely-drawn presentation of some great thinking on the single most central practice to benefit the largest scope of your health.
The quantity of studies and data he combs through to find this final intersection…
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Okay, so there are about 4 levels of brain-wave frequencies.
Going from Highest to Lowest frequencies, they are: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta.
Those Greek names correspond to 10+Hz, 8-10Hz, 4-8Hz, and 0-4Hz.
Aside from the hippie, crunchy-granola crowd stinking up the local dreadlocked-patchouli hoe-downs at Jack Johnson’s Honolulu Dookie Ranch,
And deliberately enjoying the smell of their own farts in San Francisco,
A few different groups of people, thanks largely to our Buddhist friends, have gotten involved in Meditation…
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