Can a brain-twisting smartphone game help combat depression? – The Week
Groupe d’imagerie Cérébrale / Brain Imaging Group (Photo credit: Institut Douglas) I attended a Grand Rounds at McLean Psychosis (Photo credit: davemmett) not long ago in which a creative Psychiatrist...
View ArticleThe Secret Door – I Like It, So Mysterious!
I have no idea what this site is about, but it’s an interesting experience, something different. You really have to try it, hard to describe: you explore without any idea what you’re looking for or...
View ArticleWelcome to the Modern Wild West! Science Fiction Becomes Reality
digital attack (Photo credit: Will Lion) Cover art of volume one of the Tom de Haven and Jensen graphic novel adaptation, published by Epic Comics in 1989. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) William Gibson, the...
View ArticleDaddy’s Milk 4: Better Late than Never!
Image via CrunchBase 1) We can fret about reality and rage against reality and argue over its meaning, or we can adapt to it and do our best to thrive. To me, many debates about changes in technology...
View ArticleAre you Real or Simulated? Life in the ‘Uncanny Valley’
NPR Lobby (Photo credit: urbanbohemian) Heard of the “Uncanny Valley“? It’s an idea about realism in computer simulated people: as I understand it, if a simulation becomes TOO realistic, it triggers an...
View ArticleCleaning Products Cause Disease? Science Increasingly Says Yes
English: Photograph of P.T. Barnum. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We get sold so much pointless fear about “germs,” almost as bad as all the vague pap about “toxins.” Folks thousands of years ago were...
View ArticleConsumer Reports puts action cams to the test
Reblogged from Sykose: Action cameras let extreme sports enthusiasts capture everything from skiing to snowboarding and mountain biking, but can they stand up to the tough conditions users put them...
View ArticleIllinois Students Fend off Hackers in Competition
Reblogged from Mt. Vernon Network News: NORMAL, Ill. (AP) - Teams of high school students from central Illinois have taken part in a contest to see how well they can fend off computer hacking attacks....
View ArticleDaddy’s Milk 5
Medicated? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Great news week! Enjoy, and remember I enthusiastically accept submissions & full attribute sources: 1) This article sounds like another piece on the “War on...
View ArticleThe Antisocial Network of Bitcoins – NYTimes.com
Paul Krugman – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) Bitcoins are a new take on money. Generated and processed in some arcane fashion by hackers, these “coins” have no government or commodity backing...
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