March 2010
16 posts
Alternatively,
I guess “the future is joy-proof” isn’t something I don’t believe.
a BMW slogan, which is false
keyholez:
“Joy is futureproof.”
More like AwesomeCog!
In 2002 America’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, best known for developing the internet four decades ago, embarked on a futuristic initiative called Augmented Cognition, or “AugCog”. Commander Dylan Schmorrow, a cognitive scientist with the navy, devised a crown of sensors to monitor activity in the brain such as blood flow and oxygen levels. The idea was that modern warfare requires...
"Just as our medical quacks have claimed"
keyholez:
[…]As a concentrated source of EPA, snake oil is a credible anti-inflammatory agent and might indeed confer therapeutic benefits. Since essential fatty acids are known to absorb transdermally, it is not far-fetched to think that inflamed skin and joints could benefit by the actual anti-inflammatory action of locally applied oil just as the Chinese physicians and our medical quacks...
“A portable, plugless, brain-to-computer interface using electroencephalography...”
– Recent University of Maryland work covered at PhysOrg.
