Here are some titles, seriously heady ones, on a roll.
Stimulating specific brain area could help defrost arms frozen by stroke
New mathematical method reveals structure in neural activity in the brain
Nanotechnology inspires next-generation dental materials
All links are to ScienceDaily.
For the first, my ol' Dad had a major stroke and he had some paralysis but it wasn't at the level of some who suffer terrible losses in that way. Up until now, medicine and surgery could not offer much beyond doing what they could to prevent another stroke. Therapy beyond that drove the recovery.
Moving toward a much more dynamic approach to the medical aspect, as opposed to therapy which is still medical but not the same nature, is intriguing for what changes could come. It's conceivable some type of brain 'pacemaker' can supply electrical signals in the way a heart pacemaker stabilizes the cardiac rhythm.
That brain 'pacemaker' also conceivably would exploit nanotechnology and has much more intelligence that electronic devices implanted previously. This is not sci-fi and you can read in the article this research happens right now.
The new mathematical analysis of neural activity reveals patterns of processing in the brain the scientists could not observe previously. This has immediate consequence for understanding how the brain works but also in software for improving the 'intelligence' of artificial intelligence. Here at the Rockhouse, we're about as far from being mathematicians as Peewee Herman is from being an opera singer but we appreciate the possibilities.
The sci-fi on this has played quite a bit already with berserker androids and the like. This is the research which may well be a key part of that level of intelligence in a 'droid. How you will control it is still speculation in sci-fi movies and we've seen loyalty from 'droids but we've also seen Terminators, although not many because we found the franchise of Terminator movies tiresome and pointless.
The nanotechnology considered in this bit is the use of nanoparticles to make dental materials for making fillings, etc. The advantage is they're stronger, take a much more accurate color, and there is the potential for further exploitation of nanotechnology to make your teeth, at least to some extent, self-healing.
Yevette said it would be creepy to have intelligent teeth but my current circumstance would be well-pleased with intelligent teeth.
Cataract surgery is creepy too but you do it because it rarely fails and you get significantly better vision almost immediately. The sell before the first time that surgery was performed must have had to overcome a lot of creepy.
When teeth are a constant bitch for so many people, I doubt I would be surprised at all to see good acceptance of such technology.
So, there's a bit of roll on some things I found interesting while wandering about. There's a question of whether profanity is ok and it's fucked-up to even consider it because the language presents itself and I use it.
The admiration for Larry Flynt is sincere and it's not because I read "Hustler" or even like it, I don't. However, I absolutely admire his balls in defending the freedom to publish and forcing the state to agree the public has the right to decide. People dismiss him as another porno king but the man has shed blood for his beliefs and that moves him to a whole different level.
(Ed: you trying to make him a martyr for porno?)
No. I see a martyr for freedom. Porno isn't particularly interesting to me because most of it is complete shit and, worse, it isn't sexy. Maybe beaver shots from a paid slut turn you on but, Coyote Red, it don't do nothin' for me.
(Ed: bullllllshit!)
No, serious shit ... but ... if you hang a veil between the camera and said beaver shot and send a slight breeze, your view will change as the veil moves. This starts to get interesting. It's still too blatant but has potential. So get six more veils and do the same thing. All of them move in different patterns so it's not entirely clear what you're seeing. You know what's there ... but you just can't quite see. You keep trying because now it is sexy.
In fact, I'm such a snowflake, I never went to another strip show after the Army and I only saw two in my life, once at the Gaeity Burlesque which was a strip palace and had the most perfectly seedy ambience. I've never been to a titty bar. It's not that I'm repressed but rather I never saw a reason and the people who did get off on that weren't all that interesting to me.
Whoops ... there was one time when Tinkerbell, Barbie, and Tinkerbell's husband took me, the visiting Midwest rube, to see a San Francisco sex show. Proof that I was the Midwest rube is I asked.
It didn't occur until later they don't know I don't do that all the time. I don't feel guilty about it but I would if it were some type of sexual need because I might as well fall in love with a fire hydrant. At least with the fire hydrant, you'd know something happened if you popped the cork.
Nevertheless, it's all part of seeing the Weird Shit People Do. Barbie called it 'studying the species' and it wasn't to feel superior but rather to try for some kind of understanding of this infinitely twisted culture. It's exactly the same reason I'm fascinated by scientific research even if it's within fields in which I'm not any kind of an expert ... but ... if I can see from the reading where the science leads then we have an idea of what they're doing and there may be an article in it.
There's no way we're capable of gene-splicing to play DNA tricks here at the Rockhouse but we know genetics well enough to understand what is happening with trying to clone a mammoth from ancient DNA. That's been pursued previously but the secondary interest is the ethical consideration for such a thing. What will this species do about toying with another one.
(Ed: what have you learned from studying the species?)
I learned this is an infinitely twisted culture.
(Ed: you already knew that)
Yah but it keeps getting, well, more infinite.
Stimulating specific brain area could help defrost arms frozen by stroke
New mathematical method reveals structure in neural activity in the brain
Nanotechnology inspires next-generation dental materials
All links are to ScienceDaily.
For the first, my ol' Dad had a major stroke and he had some paralysis but it wasn't at the level of some who suffer terrible losses in that way. Up until now, medicine and surgery could not offer much beyond doing what they could to prevent another stroke. Therapy beyond that drove the recovery.
Moving toward a much more dynamic approach to the medical aspect, as opposed to therapy which is still medical but not the same nature, is intriguing for what changes could come. It's conceivable some type of brain 'pacemaker' can supply electrical signals in the way a heart pacemaker stabilizes the cardiac rhythm.
That brain 'pacemaker' also conceivably would exploit nanotechnology and has much more intelligence that electronic devices implanted previously. This is not sci-fi and you can read in the article this research happens right now.
The new mathematical analysis of neural activity reveals patterns of processing in the brain the scientists could not observe previously. This has immediate consequence for understanding how the brain works but also in software for improving the 'intelligence' of artificial intelligence. Here at the Rockhouse, we're about as far from being mathematicians as Peewee Herman is from being an opera singer but we appreciate the possibilities.
The sci-fi on this has played quite a bit already with berserker androids and the like. This is the research which may well be a key part of that level of intelligence in a 'droid. How you will control it is still speculation in sci-fi movies and we've seen loyalty from 'droids but we've also seen Terminators, although not many because we found the franchise of Terminator movies tiresome and pointless.
The nanotechnology considered in this bit is the use of nanoparticles to make dental materials for making fillings, etc. The advantage is they're stronger, take a much more accurate color, and there is the potential for further exploitation of nanotechnology to make your teeth, at least to some extent, self-healing.
Yevette said it would be creepy to have intelligent teeth but my current circumstance would be well-pleased with intelligent teeth.
Cataract surgery is creepy too but you do it because it rarely fails and you get significantly better vision almost immediately. The sell before the first time that surgery was performed must have had to overcome a lot of creepy.
When teeth are a constant bitch for so many people, I doubt I would be surprised at all to see good acceptance of such technology.
So, there's a bit of roll on some things I found interesting while wandering about. There's a question of whether profanity is ok and it's fucked-up to even consider it because the language presents itself and I use it.
The admiration for Larry Flynt is sincere and it's not because I read "Hustler" or even like it, I don't. However, I absolutely admire his balls in defending the freedom to publish and forcing the state to agree the public has the right to decide. People dismiss him as another porno king but the man has shed blood for his beliefs and that moves him to a whole different level.
(Ed: you trying to make him a martyr for porno?)
No. I see a martyr for freedom. Porno isn't particularly interesting to me because most of it is complete shit and, worse, it isn't sexy. Maybe beaver shots from a paid slut turn you on but, Coyote Red, it don't do nothin' for me.
(Ed: bullllllshit!)
No, serious shit ... but ... if you hang a veil between the camera and said beaver shot and send a slight breeze, your view will change as the veil moves. This starts to get interesting. It's still too blatant but has potential. So get six more veils and do the same thing. All of them move in different patterns so it's not entirely clear what you're seeing. You know what's there ... but you just can't quite see. You keep trying because now it is sexy.
In fact, I'm such a snowflake, I never went to another strip show after the Army and I only saw two in my life, once at the Gaeity Burlesque which was a strip palace and had the most perfectly seedy ambience. I've never been to a titty bar. It's not that I'm repressed but rather I never saw a reason and the people who did get off on that weren't all that interesting to me.
Whoops ... there was one time when Tinkerbell, Barbie, and Tinkerbell's husband took me, the visiting Midwest rube, to see a San Francisco sex show. Proof that I was the Midwest rube is I asked.
It didn't occur until later they don't know I don't do that all the time. I don't feel guilty about it but I would if it were some type of sexual need because I might as well fall in love with a fire hydrant. At least with the fire hydrant, you'd know something happened if you popped the cork.
Nevertheless, it's all part of seeing the Weird Shit People Do. Barbie called it 'studying the species' and it wasn't to feel superior but rather to try for some kind of understanding of this infinitely twisted culture. It's exactly the same reason I'm fascinated by scientific research even if it's within fields in which I'm not any kind of an expert ... but ... if I can see from the reading where the science leads then we have an idea of what they're doing and there may be an article in it.
There's no way we're capable of gene-splicing to play DNA tricks here at the Rockhouse but we know genetics well enough to understand what is happening with trying to clone a mammoth from ancient DNA. That's been pursued previously but the secondary interest is the ethical consideration for such a thing. What will this species do about toying with another one.
(Ed: what have you learned from studying the species?)
I learned this is an infinitely twisted culture.
(Ed: you already knew that)
Yah but it keeps getting, well, more infinite.
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