Something seems wrong about this article and the research it talks about:
Obesity carries risks, but can boost survival from heart attacks: study
(subtitle: findings do not give green light for being fat, doctors say)
berns said: “Ever considered how pigeons look _exactly_ the same everywhere in the world?”
Man you are so right. That is weird. A little spooky too. Worth keeping an eye on those guys. Like they were all “sent” from the same place. Totally weird.
I am 25 years old but I think that this morning, when I was in the shower, I understood condensation that occurs outside a container filled with cold liquid for the very first time. I think I daydreamed through all the explanations we were given in science classes. Probably thinking oh yeah, just water, not very interesting is it…because things had to change colour to be of interest to me.
How do I know that I didn’t really understand it before? Because when I have a bottle or glass getting wet on the outside, I still perceive the moisture as coming from the inside. I think that my glass or bottle is leaking.
I am happy that now I fully understand, but still…it is kind of sad.
Jose Carmena at UC Berkeley is working on brain-computer interfaces. So think a surgical implant with hundreds of tiny electrodes placed in the frontal and parietal lobes (motor regions) of the brain. A version of the implant was tested on monkeys and they were able to learn how to operate a robot arm. There’s more to it than what I’m saying, but think - this could be the future. BRAIN IMPLANTS! The possibilities…the possibly evil possibilities.
So after thinking about what my head mods would look like for a while, I went back to the question I have whenever I hear about this implant business (see this post from a few weeks ago). What happens when you sleep? Maybe implants will not become mainstream until I’m well dead because they are likely to be attached to computers and complications for a while. But someday everyone will have their implants and you will be able to choose what do to with the signal. In the end that’s all it is isn’t it? So you program your implants to operate or control various things. It will replace the clapper, be used for security messages, and enable T9-ed mind messages.
So when you sleep, and those implants are still there, and you involuntarily use a motor function…ok maybe you could turn it off, but pretend you can’t because it’s more interesting to think about. I’ll let you think about that one…
Aargh, I started reading this Wired Article with interest. They are researching the “bits” leftover after bird-plane collisions. Snarge is what they call it. By determining what kind of bird, when, and where, they can hopefully make guesses on flight paths that will avoid bird collisions.
This is good, considering the environmental impact our transportation methods have in the sky, it’s easy for us to forget about that. But no it is not about that. In the news it’s never about anything but what negative impact it has on humans.
I thought I would continue to read about the number of plane related deaths per bird species. No, I read about the amount of money the birds are causing in aircraft damage. I read that they test a jet engines indurance to ingest an 8-pound waterfowl by “firing a chicken from a cannon at point-blank range”.
God I feel so sorry for chickens. Nature’s most abused species. We call someone a chicken because they are a coward but today I think it means so much more than that.
