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Brain
Brain
The Braincar
The Braincar is the creation of artist Olaf Mooij. He drives it around during the day, while a camera on top of the brain records videos of his travels. Then, during the night, he plays back the videos by projecting them onto the inner surface of the brain. As if the brain were dreaming... (via technabob)
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 22, 2012 -
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Category: Brain
Mystery Ad
What product is being touted by this curious pronouncement?
Find out here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 01, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1930s, Brain
Memory Aid?
This headline is too weird to be simply a headline. It must be a memory aid, like "ROY G. BIV" or "Every Good Boy Deserves Fun."
But what could the hidden meaning be?
Please submit your best guess.
Mine is "Lion Genomes Occupy Protoplasm Interiors Totipotentially Cancerous."
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 21, 2011 -
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Category: Celebrities, Music, Body Fluids, Brain
Sleep Artist
The Man Who Draws in His Sleep
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 02, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Psychology, Europe, Brain
Far-out, Man!
Muppet man Jim Henson takes a psychedelic voyage to inner space.
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 03, 2011 -
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Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Music, 1960s, Brain
Mental Powers
Think yourself rich!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 09, 2011 -
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Category: Advertising, 1920s, Brain
Inventions of Buckminster Fuller, Part 5: Dymaxion Sleep
This was more a concept than an invention. It is also known as polyphasic sleep, meaning sleeping at more than one interval during a day. Although not really invented by Fuller, he did popularize it and gave it a catchy nickname. Bucky claims to have slept only 30 minutes every 6 hours and did not suffer any ill effects. You can read a story about it in Time Magazine's archives.
Posted By: fyshstyxx - Wed Jun 10, 2009 -
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Category: Health, Science, Sleep and Dreams, 1940s, Brain
One Step Closer To The Matrix
Posted By: Nethie - Thu Jun 04, 2009 -
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Category: Medicine, Science, Technology, More Things To Worry About, Brain
Medical Weirdness
In a "stimulus package" of their own devising, Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have announced they are going to provide 70 drugs, including Viagra, free to America's recently dis-employed. Sadly, what might have been cure for those recession blues is limited to people who had already been prescribed one of the drugs prior to being laid off (New Scientist).And ladies, with all that free Viagra about to hit the streets, now would be a good time to look your best. So what better way to rejuvenate your skin and cast off unsightly wrinkles than though injections of a compound derived from babies' foreskins. In what is, amazingly, not a joke, a British company has developed, and received UK approval for, a treatment called "Vavelta" that contains live fibroblasts harvested from the bits of baby boys left over after a circumcision. Each vial of the drug is only enough to revive less than a square inch of skin, and costs $1000. But you'll have to travel to get it, the FDA have yet to approve its use in the US (Scientific American).
Of course, it's not just your looks that needs tending as you get older, your mind needs attention too. Fortunately researchers have just announced that increased vitamin D is just the thing to keep us thinking flawlessly. Vitamin D, you will remember, comes to us mainly through eating oily fish and from exposure to the sun. So start saving for that Miami condo now (Telegraph).
Meanwhile, in a case of medical irony, one little spoken of casualty of the strategic arms treaties and test bans has been the availability of medicinal isotopes such as those used in radiography and some cancer treatments. Today, all isotopes for the Americas are supplied by just one facility, the MAPLE facility in Ontario, also the world's oldest operating nuclear reactor. Only now, it's shutting down over safety concerns, and there's no replacement ready (National Post).
Finally, as an irony supplement, researchers have discovered that Down syndrome, a genetic condition that causes a host of physical and mental problems, also protects against some forms of cancer. Down syndrome is caused by having an extra copy of one chromosome, and it is through having an additional copy of one of the genes on that chromosome, which interferes with the formation of blood vessels, that sufferers from DS are less susceptible to many 'solid tumor' cancers. It's hoped that this discovery might lead to better ways to fight cancer in the future (Science).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu May 21, 2009 -
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Category: Babies, Health, Medicine, Brain
How to Hack Your Brain
Posted By: mdb777 - Sun May 10, 2009 -
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Category: Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Brain
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