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This Is Your Brain’s LC On Sleep-Debt or Provigil: As Horrific As Christian Bale’s Physique In “The Machinist”

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

This Is Your Brain’s LC On Sleep-Debt or Provigil: As Horrific As Christian Bale’s Physique In “The Machinist”
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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…

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Sherlock Doesn’t Need To Know The Earth Goes Round The Sun And Neither Should You. -Because Your Brain Forgets On-Purpose

Filed Under: Disease, Mind/Brain

Sherlock Doesn’t Need To Know The Earth Goes Round The Sun And Neither Should You. -Because Your Brain Forgets On-Purpose
scumbag brain meme remembers face not name



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…

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Thought “Glassholes” Were Bad? Well Break Out The Kevlar Pants-Suit Betty White, Because Soon They’ll Upgrade To Predator-Vision

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Stupid Health Tricks

Thought “Glassholes” Were Bad? Well Break Out The Kevlar Pants-Suit Betty White, Because Soon They’ll Upgrade To Predator-Vision
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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…

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Choc To The Heart And Your Gut’s To Blame. Darlin, Bacteria Gives Cocoa, -A Grand Name

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Choc To The Heart And Your Gut’s To Blame. Darlin, Bacteria Gives Cocoa, -A Grand Name
hot chocolate in mug with froth like latte art


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,…

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3D-Printing To The Rescue Again! -This Time: Reconstructing A Machinehead

Filed Under: Bio-Tech

3D-Printing To The Rescue Again! -This Time: Reconstructing A Machinehead
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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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I Was Just Going To Complain About My Diet Until TheChive Reminded Me Of Christian Bale

Filed Under: Exercise, Featured, Nutrition, Other, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

I Was Just Going To Complain About My Diet Until TheChive Reminded Me Of Christian Bale
christian bale as Dicky Eklund in The Fighter


1 Apple, 1 Can of Tuna, Coffee, Cigarettes & Vitamins to lose 63lbs. -or 34% of his mass in 4 months for “The Machinist”?

A little tiny bit more food, but running 4+ hour Ultra-Marathon-equivalents to lose almost as much between “Terminator Salvation” and “The Fighter”?

 
…-My Complaining? -OVER!…

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IL-COMMUNICATION! SCAR-BOTAGE!!! -Before It Kills You, Fat Will Also Make You Stupid

Filed Under: Exercise, Mind/Brain, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

IL-COMMUNICATION! SCAR-BOTAGE!!! -Before It Kills You, Fat Will Also Make You Stupid
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Ever hear someone called a Fathead? Well whoever invented that sobriquet turns out to be on to something.

In addition to just plain plotting to kill you, your Fat is officially also making you easier prey on the Savannah by turning your brain into a pile of mush before it finishes you off.

[ed: your cat has not yet been formally indicted on equal conspiracy charges, but come-on…]

 
So: The latest salvo launched by Researchers at Georgia Regents University’s Prevention Center is a mouse study that not only showed excess amounts of body-fat produce inflammation…

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