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Just in time for mind hacks,comes this article about hacking your own brain and playing with its body perception:The experience is uncanny,for you know perfectly well that you’re looking at a disembodied rubber hand,but this doesn’t prevent your brain from assigning sensation to it. I remember reading about this reaction from [...] I just did the survey from the Healthspan Calculator,and got bad news to all my fans:Your calculated health span is 59.4 years. Of course,it would all be bettered through the judicious ingest of fruits and vegetables,running daily,limiting my time at the local secondary smoke place,and sleeping eight hours instead [...] In the country of Prozac and Viagra,and one suffused with a deep belief in a maniacal work ethos,it is not unlikely to think about a drug that would make its recipients into workaholics,simply because that would increase their opportunities for a promotion,or just because some of us could really use that [...] Just because “How to Cook in Chinese”is in the NYTIMES food section it doesn’t mean it would actually be available:Buwei Yang Chao will have to wait until I can go through the used book section. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1647′).each( function(e){e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); Further on my post about longevous immigrants,now we have that bilingual individuals fare better as they age on tests of fluid intelligence. Question,though:the bilingual individuals had a similar cultural background to those that were monolingual? Were they immigrants,and thus suffered the brutal selective process that arriving into a new country does? [...] I was talking with my dentist about regrowing teeth,from an article I saw some time ago about using stem cells to grow mouse teeth on rooster beaks. I was discussing the possibility that we might get to grow our teeth again,specially after traumatic (read:accidents) events. Of course,this dentists will like a [...] Having a flu seems to have increased my powers of deduction. That,or the medicine I am taking. It is not a hallucination,but an insight! Too bad,however,that the thing wrecks my highly logical abilities:I forgot passwords,names,to-do lists,calendars and bills to pay. I get wondering whether I did that [...] O lazyweb,o lazyweb! Do you know of any aikido sensei living in Winston Salem,NC,willing to take two good students and me? Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1367′).each( function(e){e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); So I am male,and I am at greater risk of dying! So what! In Colombia for example,men in their early twenties are five times as likely to die as women of the same age. Even more surprisingly,the pattern holds for every major cause of death,from car crashes to heart disease to [...] I am thinking how to use this false memories research to my own benefit:clearly,we make,through words and the memories we choose to keep,our world and reality;as things evolve,though,is the storyteller the one making up the history,and by that the decision on the future? Would Bush assertions about [...] |  | ||||||
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