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We’ve told you before about biohackers strapping stim-pads to their scalps to either speed up or chill-out and how Thync is formalizing that space with smartphones and science.
Well, another set of researchers is doing something similar to get serious about depression, by way of a happy-accident.
Back in 2001, Michael Rohan was doing research on how bipolar patients responded…
For a little while now, people have been hacking their own brains with something called tDCS, or electrodes on the scalp, trying to enhance their mood and mental functioning.
-But the potentially-dangerous bro-science practice has had spotty results, until now.
Because a company called Thync has pooled a team of experts to change all that.
When their engineers & doctors looked at all the different effects and the conflicting studies surrounding the noggin-zaps, from improvements on…
-Except this time, it just might work.
Everyone’s done this type of amateur Sherlock Holmes evaluation since they were born. But now, at the intersection of a facial-recognition technologist, a doctor, and Big Data, the studies might just prove both true and useful.
What Face My Age’s technology does…
Mom Wasn’t Just Nagging, She Was Right:
Your mom ever pack an apple in your lunch, or tell you to eat your vegetables?
Well, it turns out mom just wanted you to be awesome, and those theories Bradley the teddy-bear whispered late at night about her being part of the international spinach cartel were purely-circumstantial.
In a University of Otago study, Tamlin Conner and her team studied the diets of a small group of young adults along with…
After noting an odd unexpected plus to an immune-boosting study on lung cancer patients;
that the inclusion of a certain microbe not only reduced inflammation,
but also Boosted their Mood,
Researcher Chris Lowry and his team got a few ideas for a new study of their own.
So instead of…
Ok, a little bit of a jump from there to the idea of “Guaranteed” Life-Extension. -maybe.
But according to Abel & Kruger, a study of baseball players from 1952 shows that the ones smiling in the group photos outlived their teammates by 7 years!…
