You’re Damn Right We’re Better off; hundreds (yes hundreds) of reasons listed. ‘How quickly we forget’ should be the theme of this year’s attacks on President Obama.
Accomplish after accomplishment goes unrecognized and/or forgotten so the time has come to refresh your memory. Are we better off than we were four years ago? Simple answer is: You’re damn right we are. Yes Mitt, we are better off. But, you already knew that. Auto Industry savedGot North Korea to stop enriching uraniumIraq war endedBin Laden deadNuclear weapons reduced by 1/3 in US & RussiaStock market more than doublesCreamed Bush in turning around job loss – [See GRAPH] U.S Gross Domestic product went from steady decline to increasing every ¼ of the Obama Presidency [See graph] Pause for breath. Brain Scanner Records Dreams on Video. Just a few weeks ago, we posted about how brain patterns can reveal almost exactly what you're thinking.
Now, researchers at UC Berkeley have figured out how to extract what you're picturing inside your head, and they can play it back on video. The way this works is very similar to the mind-reading technique that we covered earlier this month. A functional MRI (fMRI) machine watches the patterns that appear in people's brains as they watch a movie, and then correlates those patterns with the image on the screen. With these data, a complex computer model was created to predict the relationships between a given brain pattern and a given image, and a huge database was created that matched 18,000,000 seconds worth of random YouTube videos to possible brain patterns. Comparing the brain-scan video to the original video is just a way to prove that the system works, but there's nothing stopping this technique from being used to suck video out of people's heads directly.
Vernon educator is Sussex County Teacher of the Year. Physicist claims victory over traffic ticket with physics paper. This article first ran in April and was one of the most popular stories from Motoramic in 2012.
After it ran, the judge in the case said many of the physics arguments presented escaped her. A physicist at the University of California San Diego used his knowledge of measuring bodies in motion to show in court why he couldn't be guilty of a ticket for failing to halt at a stop sign. The argument, now a four-page paper delving into the differences between angular and linear motion, supposedly got the physicist out of a $400 ticket. If you want to use this excuse, you'll have to learn a little math -- and some powers of persuasion. The paper by Dmitri Krioukov titled "The Proof of Innocence," notes in the abstract that it's "a way to fight your traffic tickets," and was "awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California.
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