Neural lace has been invented to organically connect your brain with a computer Scientists from China and the US have found a pioneering way to inject a tiny electronic mesh sensor into the brain that fully integrates with cerebral matter and enables computers to monitor brain activity. Researchers from Harvard and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing have succeeded in inventing a flexible electrical circuit that fits inside a 0.1mm-diameter glass syringe in a water-based solution. When injected into the brains of mice, the mesh unfurled to 30 times its size and mouse brain cells grew around the mesh, forming connections with the wires in the flexible mesh circuit. The mice who received the implants are thriving and while today they need to be connected by a wire to the computer so their brain activity can be monitored, in the future this could be wireless, and the same technique could be used to integrate an electric mesh with a human brain. What is neural lace? The beginning of the true human cyborgs
The only technique to learn something new I had a friend who wanted to get better at painting. But she thought she had to be in Paris, with all the conditions right. She never made it to Paris. Now she sits in a cubicle under fluorescent lights, filling out paperwork all day. Someone stole $90 million from a company I was involved in. Some things I can't learn. So it's hard for me to be a good judge of people, no matter how much I try. Don't force yourself to learn something if you don't want to or it's not a natural talent. What's the role of talent? How do you know if you are talented? Trust me when I say: everyone is talented at many things. In the past 20 years I've wanted to learn how to do some things really well. So I developed a ten step technique for learning. If you can't start with "love" then everyone who does love will beat everyone who "likes" or "hates". This is a rule of the universe. The very first day I wrote a "Hello, World" computer program I dreamed about computers. Bobby Fischer wasn't that good at chess.
Science Shows How the Brains of Intelligent, Successful People Are Different From Everyone Else | Mic What's the best way to take control of your own life and push yourself against boundaries? According to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, it's all about your mindset. Successful people tend to focus on growth, solving problems and self-improvement, while unsuccessful people think of their abilities as fixed assets and avoid challenges. Dweck says that there are two basic categories that peoples' behavioral traits tend to fall into: fixed and growth mindsets. Image Credit: Brain Pickings A person with a "fixed" mindset tends to view themselves with static traits and a deterministic outlook. A person with a "growth" mindset, on the other hand, sees challenges as things to overcome and views failure as an opportunity for growth and personal development. In the end, Dweck says, how we approach life can determine our success and happiness. "Believing that your qualities are carved in stone — the fixed mindset — creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. The result?
Education - App Store Downloads Millennials can’t handle free speech, study suggests Were you born between the early 1980s to the early 2000s? Do you have a problem with other people speaking their minds and holding different opinions from your own? Well, do ya, punk? Science suggests that despite the fact young people today view themselves as the most progressive and forward thinking generation ever to have lived, they are in fact the least tolerant in a century when it comes to appreciating the ideas of others. Do millennials have an issue with free speech? Or are we just trying to purge the world of prejudice? ‘Free speech is so last century’ The Pew Research Center estimates that 40% of millennials in the US “are OK with limiting free speech if it is considered offensive to minorities”. Brendan O’Neill, a journalist and columnist for The Spectator, argues that today’s universities, once paragons of free speech and free expression, have essentially turned into support groups reinforcing, not challenging, ideas. “They’re everywhere. (Image: PRC)
Zeit für die wirklich wichtigen Dinge haben Das neue Jahr hat begonnen – und zwar für viele genauso stressig, wie das alte Jahr zu Ende gegangen ist. Quälen Sie sich jetzt nicht mit allen möglichen guten Vorsätzen. Überlegen Sie stattdessen, wie Sie Ihre Zeit sinnvoll gestalten und somit mehr Freiraum schaffen können für das, was Ihnen wirklich wichtig ist. Zach Davis, der sich auf pragmatische Lösungen für die Probleme „Informationsflut“ und „Zeitknappheit“ spezialisiert hat, gibt erste Tipps: Zeitmanagement im Griff! Von Zach Davis Sie möchten oder müssen vielen verschiedenen Anforderungen gerecht werden? Im Folgenden erhalten Sie zwölf (plus 1) Zeitspartipps für den Alltag, die für mehr Selbstbestimmung und effektivere Planung sorgen: 1. Viele Menschen geraten in Bedrängnis, weil sie vereinbarte Termine nicht einhalten können. 2. Im Zeitmanagement heißt es immer wieder, man solle mit den wichtigen Dingen starten. 3. Jemand schreibt Ihnen ein E-Mail. 4. 5. 6. 7. A wie Aktion bzw. 8. 9. 10. 11. Soll bzw. will ich dies machen? 12.
Antidepressant with novel action appears safe and effective in phase 1b clinical trial A small clinical trial of a novel antidepressant that stimulates neurogenesis - the production of new brain cells - shows that the compound appears to be safe and may be effective against depression. Results of the phase 1B trial, led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators, show that treatment with the drug currently identified as NSI-189 improved both depressive and cognitive symptoms in study participants and that its effects appear to persist for several months after treatment discontinuation. The study was supported by the pharmaceutical company Neuralstem. "All currently approved antidepressant drugs modulate changes in the levels of monoamine neurotransmitters," says Maurizio Fava, MD, executive director of the Clinical Trials Network & Institute (CTNI) in the MGH Department of Psychiatry, lead author of the study published online in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Explore further: FDA approves new drug for schizophrenia, major depression
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Memories Can Be Inherited, and Scientists May Have Just Figured out How In Brief Our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children's children - and now scientists report that they have discovered that this inheritance can be turned on or off. What is Epigenetics? Epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in gene expression…changes that are inherited, but they are not inherent to our DNA. The question, of course, is how are these genetic “memories” passed on? This is the question that a Tel Aviv University (TAU) was seeking to answer when they reportedly discovered the exact mechanism that makes it possible to turn the transference of environmental influences on or off. Understanding the Mechanism According to their study, epigenetic responses that are inherited follow an active process as it gets passed on through generations. “We previously showed that worms inherited small RNAs following the starvation and viral infections of their parents.