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GATTACA + Minority Report: Science Can Now Read Your Intelligence, And One Day Your Character, From An MRI Scan

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Gadgets, Mind/Brain

GATTACA + Minority Report: Science Can Now Read Your Intelligence, And One Day Your Character, From An MRI Scan


Up until now, scientists couldn’t do that much with an fMRI besides sniff out liars. -Well all that just changed, in a big way.

A team lead by Yale researchers has not only found a new use for it, but delved right into the scary and unfair depths of The Biological “Self”.

Their scanner + human connectome big-data invention is nothing short of a digital Sorting Hat, like in the Harry Potter movies.

-Oh yeah, (much like the 2012 work by WUMinn) it can also figure out +/- exactly how smart you are…

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After Long Marketing Battle, FDA Approves “Female Viagra”. -Yay?

Filed Under: News, Noise, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Vitamins/Supplements

After Long Marketing Battle, FDA Approves “Female Viagra”. -Yay?
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Drug researchers have been trying for at least as long as regular Viagra for men to make a version of the same for women.

Sometimes, they’ve even gone as far as testing regular Viagra on women for the same effects.

And of course, results were inconsistent.

Well, just a few days ago, the FDA approved the newest drug-salvo in that pleasure war, Addyi.

But unfortunately, if it’s a victory at all, it’s a Pyrrhic one…

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Lively Up -Yo- Self! PsychoBiotics Suggests Possible Anxiety, Depression, Other Mental Health Fixes. -From Yogurt

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Lively Up -Yo- Self! PsychoBiotics Suggests Possible Anxiety, Depression, Other Mental Health Fixes. -From Yogurt
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So we’ve told you about the Human Micro-Biome here before.

That collection of microbes on & in us doesn’t just sit there, it affects us.

And so far it looks connected to at-least stress, heart-disease, and obesity.

Well Scientists have done a few more experiments and it turns out, just like the crazy-cat-lady-disease, the microbiome can also affect…

-your MIND!

How?…

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Accidental Discovery Helps Pro Brain-Zappers Get Serious About Digital Drugs For Depression

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain

Accidental Discovery Helps Pro Brain-Zappers Get Serious About Digital Drugs For Depression
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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…

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Big Data, Social Media, & Negative Language Means Tweets Predict Health Problems #SayWhat?

Filed Under: Disease, Featured, Mind/Brain, Stupid Health Tricks

Big Data, Social Media, & Negative Language Means Tweets Predict Health Problems #SayWhat?
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Somebody get Freakonomics’ Stephen Dubner on the phone, because it sounds like an enormous leap, but apparently it’s true.

In a study by U. Penn’s Johannes Eichstaedt, it seems that certain tweets are correlated with people having an increased-risk of heart problems not of the OKCupid variety.

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Video: Cookie Monster Waxes Philosophical About Nutrition

Filed Under: Featured, Nutrition, Other, Thinking Out Loud, Video

Video: Cookie Monster Waxes Philosophical About Nutrition


You have to admit, this guy must have the metabolism of a hummingbird.

Pretty slim & healthy for someone who eats only cookies. The entire HT readership is green with envy.

Maybe this “Stoner Stanley”-style musing is just the result of a sugar-high…

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Damn The Desserts, Full-Steam Ahead!: Fruits & Vegetables Really Do Make Life More Worth Living

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition

Damn The Desserts, Full-Steam Ahead!: Fruits & Vegetables Really Do Make Life More Worth Living
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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…

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You Can Probably Guess Another Person’s Political Views. -With Your Nose

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Stupid Health Tricks

You Can Probably Guess Another Person’s Political Views. -With Your Nose
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On the sillier end of things, another pheromone study has come out.

And it says, somehow mystifyingly, that people can more-or-less smell each-others’ political beliefs.

Whatever the influence is, it’s got to be extremely-subtle given all possible environmental variables (if this study is not completely BS, of-course).

SO: What the researchers did was to set things up similar to the er, ~somewhat-proven Immune-System…

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