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How Skillful Advertisers Can Word-Jack Your Brain

It’s long been established that the mighty brain is nothing but a mound of putty. We don’t see what we think we do, we don’t remember what we think we do, and we don’t like what we think we do. If we did, advertisers would be out of business. As it is, they’re literally putting false thoughts inside our heads.

March 9, 2011
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How An Iron Rod To The Skull Changed Neuroscience Forever

On September 13, 1848, an accidental explosion drove a metre-long iron rod through the skull of Vermont railway worker Phineas Gage. Incredibly, Gage survived, but the lingering side effects provided science its first clues about how the brain affects our personality.

December 15, 2010
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Neuroscientists Create The First Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton

We’ve had brain-computer interfaces for years now, as well as mind-controlled prosthetic limbs. Now neuroscientists have taken it to the next level, with a system that would allow you to control a super-powered exoskeleton using only your thoughts.

September 10, 2010
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Darpa Wants Remote Controls To Master Troop Minds

The Pentagon’s research arm wants to trick out troops’ brains, from the areas that regulate alertness and cognition to psychiatric well-being. And they want to do it all from the outside in, with a gadget installed inside the troops’ helmets.

August 26, 2010
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Inescapable Technology Is Beating Up Our Brains

Is taking out your iPad during dinner conversation even rude anymore? Is it normal to get nervous with distraction-free minutes? I just glanced at my phone while typing this. The NY Times explores our tech-addled brains, and how it’s hurting.

November 25, 2009
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How Your Brain Will Betray You In A Court Of Law

I know it’s science, which is ostensibly more objective than human intuition, but there’s something unnerving about an MRI brain scan being admitted as evidence in a murder trial in Chicago, the first in the US.

November 24, 2009
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Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not In A Coma – 23 Years Later

Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he was not in a coma. A new report suggests he’s not alone in his experience.

October 15, 2009
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Real Mouse Navigates Quake 2 Using A Trackball

Neuroscientists at Princeton created a new way to study the neurons of the classic mouse-in-a-maze: Strap it to a suspended ball and have it run through a virtual maze. That first virtual maze? Derived from a Quake 2 level.

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