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Posts Tagged ‘Brains’

Android iOS updated with Google Plus + app

iOS platform is being updated with the Google+ application which is needed to be taken in a brighter and perfect application. The mobiles and the comments are being taken in a way to consider the best in the forms of technologies that we are expecting. All the topics are being easily discovered in a way so that you can find the people easily in a way to discover new ways of life.…

A guide to efficient data management

The guide to efficient management of data illustrates the act of knowing why a bit of data exist, who exactly it is valuable to, for how long the data should be kept and when and how it should be discarded of.  This will entail doing information audits periodically and having users of information specify what data they will need and why they will need it.…

Dirty Dozen Ugliest and Lamest Cell Phones

163922 slide 00 introslide slide Dirty Dozen Ugliest and Lamest Cell PhonesUgly only begins to describe what is wrong with these cell phones. Some of them lack such phone basics as keypads and displays.

Twelve Cell Phones We Love to Hate

Some cell phones really look great, but are impossible to use. Other cell phones have cool features, but are ugly ducklings.…

Is The Internet Warping Our Brains?

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From Live Science:

The Internet is no doubt changing modern society. It has profoundly altered how we gather information, consume news, carry out war, and create and foster social bonds. But is it altering our brains? A growing number of scientists think so, and studies are providing data to show it.…

A Major Advancement In Controlling Artificial Limbs

11arm pic.550 A Major Advancement In Controlling Artificial LimbsAmanda Kitts was fitted with a bionic arm after she lost her arm in an automobile accident in 2006. (Shawn Poynter for The New York Times)

From International Herald Tribune:

Amanda Kitts lost her left arm in a car accident three years ago, but these days she plays American football with her 12-year-old son, and changes diapers and bear-hugs children at the three Kiddie Cottage day care centers she owns in Knoxville, Tennessee.…

Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

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From Wired News:

Paying attention isn’t a simple act of self-discipline, but a cognitive ability with deep neurobiological roots — and this complex faculty, says Maggie Jackson, is being woefully undermined by how we’re living.

In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Jackson explores the effects of “our high-speed, overloaded, split-focus and even cybercentric society” on attention.…

Reading This Will Change Your Brain

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From Newsweek:

A leading neuroscientist says processing digital information can rewire your circuits. But is it evolution?

Is technology changing our brains? A new study by UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small adds to a growing body of research that says it is. And according to Small’s new book, “iBRAIN: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind,” a dramatic shift in how we gather information and communicate with one another has touched off an era of rapid evolution that may ultimately change the human brain as we know it.…

Scientists To Football Players: Give Us Your Brains

photo1 Scientists To Football Players: Give Us Your BrainsBrains! Brains!!: Gaetan Lee (CC Licensed)

From Popular Science:

Amidst a growing body of evidence tying severe health problems to multiple concussions, researchers are tapping NFL stars for a more hands-on corroboration

Whenever rich people gather, charities flock hoping to solicit donations of time and money. But Chris Nowinski is asking NFL players at the Super Bowl this weekend for something a bit more personal.…

Fringe Fact v. Fiction: Could Your Brain Actually Turn to Goo?

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From Popular Mechanics:

In its 12th episode, Fringe brought back one of the all-time greatest, grossest sci-fi horrors: Liquefied brains.

While investigating a string of murders, the agents find viscous liquid oozing from victims’ orifices–something has turned their brains into nothing but goo. Sure enough, drilling a hole into a victim sends brown goo, all that’s remaining of his brain, dripping out of his skull.…

One World, Many Minds: Intelligence In The Animal Kingdom

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From Scientific American:

We are used to thinking of humans as occupying the sole pinnacle of evolutionary intelligence. That’s where we’re wrong

* Despite cartoons you may have seen showing a straight line of fish emerging on land to become primates and then humans, evolution is not so linear. The brains of other animals are not merely previous stages that led directly to human intelligence.…