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So a while ago, science kicked Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s butt largely to the curb, tossing him in with the nutbar phrenologists and palm-readers.
DNA=Traits+Health, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. That is all. No character or experience could be inherited outside of Dr. Freud’s Psychology.
Well the latest broadside by the new-ish science of Epigenetics into the flanks of older-science: Genetics has just hit in the form of some bummed-out mouse…
In a study led by Dr. Sylvane Desrivières at King’s College in London, her team has found one of the first genes positively linked to Intelligence. …Maybe some day you Will be able to “Fix Stupid”?
Now NPTN wasn’t responsible for a lot of total IQ variance. -But its impairment Was correlated with an odd thinnness in the left half of the brain’s frontal+temporal cortexes;
Why that matters: In general, a thicker outer layer of “Grey Matter” is…
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Very similar to RadioLab’s story-most-likely-to-make-you-cry, “Finding Emilie”, Cambridge’s Dr. Srivas Chennu and his team from around the world have discovered something interesting about so-called ‘vegetative’ patients.
Some of them can hear, understand, and respond to: Exactly what you’re saying to them.
They are ‘locked-in’ but definitely still ‘there’.
Now, the EEG+fMRI results weren’t the same for the majority of the subjects tested, and not all of the 4 big-responders reacted the same way…
Ok Singularity-fans, when you look at the other trailers they have of the film, it appears a little less about technology than something like “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, and more of a thriller.
-But still interesting.
Here’s to hoping they include enough accurate material to make it more “Sneakers” or “War Games”, and less “Johnny Mnemonic” or “Swordfish”.
Just don’t tell Miguel Nicolelis…
-But for now, he’s taking a different approach than almost anyone.
His thus-far $400-Million-funded Allen Institute For Brain Science is going after the visual processing center, starting with mice.
The technique they’re starting with is called: High-Throughput Electrophysiology, and it’s targeted at observing all the electrical activity in the visual center of the mouse-brain; -as it’s happening live…
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Ok, so Cracked ran this awesomely-gruesome post about 5 Strange Medical Therapies
-And the joys of bats**t-insanity, which also happens to cure Syphilis, because apparently Malaria is much the same as Omar from “The Wire”.
Well Look Out Omar! There’s a new strange-way-of-curing-disease player in-town. And his name?
Polio. -Yes, as in: “Oops, I am now almost totally paralyzed!” -That Polio.
SO: Our story begins with this one guy who got very very sick in an oddly-similar way…
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+And BTW, While you’re stuck waiting for those 3-D Printed replacement Brain Parts from before…
Just wiggle on down to So-Car and hit up Dr. Ning Zhang at Clemson; -whose invention should be coming into the mainstream Any Day Now!
(it was supposed to be Late 2012)
She’ll check out the severity of your Pro-Wrestling-Ladder-Fall-Concussion, ice your head, inject some Stem-CEllmer’s Glue in there and…
“I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.”*
Imagine if you had to learn how to be an Architect or Civil-Engineer, but you weren’t allowed 2x4s, wood, bricks, cement, steel I-beams, bolts, nails, mud, hay, cow-butts; -nothing in the way of building-supplies,
And all you were allowed to do was take apart existing skyscrapers, experiment, and sketch?
Well, that phase in Brain-Science is over…
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