YouTube science vlogger Alex Dainis chugs a litre of coffee to demonstrate (and explain at ever-increasing speed) what caffeine does to your brain.
You know, for science.
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Stroke victim Cathy Hutchinson paralysed for 15 years uses a brain implant to control a robotic arm. Cathy is only one of two people with the implant and this is the first public demonstration of the technology.
Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm (nature)
Laura Helmuth at the Smithsonian debunks ten commonly touted ‘facts’ about the human brain. For example:
We use only 10 percent of our brains.
So what’s the other 90% for? Packaging?
It’s all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70).
Who said that? Is this my semolina?
We have five senses.
Pfft. And the rest.
Brains are like computers.
No. We think different™.
We know what will make us happy.
We haven’t a frickin’ clue.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
‘Theory’ from Uranus. But you knew that.
READ ON: Top Ten Myths About the Brain (Smithsonian Mag)
(Thanks@cairotango)
Freelance designer, Jason Freeny’s fully-functional Rubic’s Cube embedded inside a Brain sculpture.
It doesn’t need you. It can solve itself.
