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YouTube - Beauty or Brains - funny commercial
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GjH3Fn4Tj1I
Considering what they are selling, I find it very appropriate. And cool.
The Doomsday Algorithm
http://rudy.ca/doomsday.html
Calculate the day of the week for any date, in your head.
MRI-scanning people as they watch political adverts
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/science/20SCAN.html
"The active parts [...] were different from the parts that had lighted up in earlier tests with Republican brains."
How To Hack Your Head - A buyer's guide to recreational brain scanning
http://slate.msn.com/id/2099411/fr/rss
By Steven Johnson.
Dominic Memory System - Mentat Wiki
http://www.ludism.org/mentat/DominicSystem
Encoding two-digit numbers to letters, and then to mental images.
The American Assembler - States With Higher IQ Vote Democrat
http://americanassembler.com/features/iq_state_averages.htm
Less intelligent voters are more likely to believe WMD and Iraq/Al-Qaeda links, and vote for Bush. Depressing.
Graph of physical and memetic human development
http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/2004/vol8/ekstig_fig1.gif
The age of a single human, graphed against ages of biological components and memes. Magnificent. Beware the singularity, my son.
Halfbakery: Using Smell Memory in Parking Ramps
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Using_20Smell_20Memory_20in_20Parking_20Ramps
"But why not harness the power - and novelty - of our scent memory? One floor could smell like chocalate, the other like oranges, and so on..."
Dopamine Levels Tied to Uncertainty of Rewards
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/504885/?sc=wire
Random-reward situations produce dopamine.
Human Brain Works Heavy Statistics Learning Language
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040505065626.htm
Massive amounts of subconscious valid-syllable-sequence inference, Markov-chain style.
Home of the Underdogs - Alpha Waves
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=41
"An old old game whose levels and music had the purpose of setting the brain into specific patterns." says Zarba.
BrainWave Generator Software
http://www.bwgen.com
"BrainWave Generator generates binaural beats that change your brain frequency towards the desired state, be it relaxation or enhanced attention."
gladwell dot com / The Social Life of Paper
http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_03_25_a_paper.htm
"The solution to our paper problem is not to use less paper but to *keep* less paper."
The Japan Times Online : Beta beware 'game brain'
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fd20020929tc.htm
"When test subjects who were habitual gamers became immersed in their gaming, their beta waves dropped by varying amounts, from only slight declines to complete loss."
The New York Times Against Happiness
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/magazine/20WWLN.html
"One interesting hypothesis is that happy people have an 'everything is fine' attitude that reduces the motivation for analytical thought."
VR tool re-creates hallucinations
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/061604/VR_tool_re-creates_hallucinations_061604.html
An FPS psychiatric ward, to train staff in understanding patient hallucinations. "Abusive voices that say things like "you're worthless" and "go and kill yourself" start at random and in proximity to items such as stereos and televisions."
Panel Suggests Neck Implant for Depression
http://www.indystar.com/articles/5/155194-4335-052.html
"Using a technique known as vagus-nerve stimulation, the device uses electrodes implanted in the neck to activate brain regions that are believed to regulate mood."
Human subjects play mind games
http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/911.html
Aha! Brain-surface scanning being used to play games. "When they saw the cursor in the video game, they then controlled it with their brains."
CarlZimmer.com - Whose Life Would You Save?
http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2004/articles_2004_Morality.html
MRI-scanning people as they contemplate moral dilemmas. "A lot of our deeply felt moral convictions may be quirks of our evolutionary history."
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think
http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb
Full text of the engagingly rambling book, online. "When a new thought appears, it doesn't do so in a vacuum, it does so in a context."
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