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January 22 2012

derry
16:00

This Guy Didn't Know He Shot Himself in the Head with a Nail Gun [Wtf]

Dante Autullo is a tough guy. He's also, according to his wife, a very accident prone guy. So when he accidentally hit his head with a nail gun and only saw a scratch, he didn't think anything of it... EVEN THOUGH HE HAD A FREAKING NAIL LODGED IN HIS BRAIN. More »


Tags: Wtf Brain Dumb nail gun Nail in brain Nails Skull XRay

January 09 2012

derry
21:00

The Pill That Could Cure Depression by Growing Your Brain [Science]

If you are depressed, or schizophrenic or have Alzheimer's, scientists say you probably have a shrunken hippocampus. The good news: a drug that just entered human trials promises to re-grow that part of the brain. More »


Tags: Science Alzheimer's antidepressants Brain Clinical Trials Depression Drugs Fda hippocampus Karl Johe Neuralstem Neuroscience Schizophrenia Severe depression

January 05 2012

derry
17:00

The Evolution of Protection for Your Noggin [Design]

Your head does a pretty great job of keeping your brain safe most of the time. Your skull can take a lot of jostling before your thinker suffers damage. More »


Tags: Design Armor Assyrians Bell Brain Gear Greeks Head head injury Helmets History Persians Protective Gear Sports

December 09 2011

derry
01:40

Even If You're Old You Can Learn New Tricks With Really Freaking Hard Work [Science]

London is a crazy mixed-up city, navigation-wise. It's so hard find your way around that when taxi-drivers learn to, they say they've Acquired The Knowledge. And now scientists say The Knowledge actually changes drivers' brains. More »


Tags: Science Brain eleanor maguire London Neuroscience Plasticity taxi drivers Taxis The knowledge

September 16 2011

derry
15:36

Full-Size Gummy Human Brain Will Turn You Into a Sugar Zombie [Candy]

I want, want, WANT this giant gummy human brain. I'd leave the giant gummy worms for the Renfield wannabes. This is the real thing. More »


Tags: Candy Brain Gummy brain human brain Zombies

August 12 2011

derry
03:04

What Is Coil Embolization? [What Is]

You're healthy, active and life is good. Then, you start having pain behind your eyes, frequent killer headaches and difficulty with your vision and balance. You shake it off as nothing, but you shouldn't. You may have a brain aneurysm. More »


Tags: What Is aneurysm Blood Brain burst coil Coil Embolization Disease vessel

July 21 2011

derry
20:40

Girl Who Tragically Lost Half Her Brain Has Gained a New Artistic Ability [Amazing]

Taisia Sidorova, a 21-year-old girl from St Petersburg, Russia, smashed her skull and damaged her brain during a horrific car crash. It was so bad that doctors didn't expect Taisia to ever recover. Amazingly, three years later, she's better and has developed a new artistic ability that didn't even exist before. More »


Tags: Amazing Art artistic Artisticability Brain Braindamage CarAccident carcrash Damagedbrain Girl brain damage artistic ability Halfbrain hope Skullsmashed Smashedskull Taisia sidorova

July 19 2011

derry
17:40

Why You're So Spooked by the Uncanny Valley [Science]

We've all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It's that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that's so close to looking human that it seems almost spooky. More »


Tags: Science Androids Brain Brain androids Republished Robots

July 18 2011

derry
22:20

An Android App That Reads Your Brain [Video]

KDDI has a prototype Android app that can monitor your brainwaves. You have to wear a silly headband sensor and play an even dumber video game but the app graphs your brain's neural activity and concentration levels after you're done. More »


Tags: apps Androidapps Brain Brainmonitor BrainWaves Kddi Kddi android app brainwaves Kddiandroidappbrain neuralactivity Readbrain Readyourbrain Readyourmind

July 07 2011

derry
19:20

Anti-Blackout Drug to Undermine Your Hard-Earned Binges [Booze]

Okay, scientific community. I love it when you cure disease and I get super excited when you discover new elements and all. But this study into what causes drunken blackouts—and how to prevent them—is giving my favorite coping mechanism a sad. More »


Tags: Booze Alcohol Anti blackout drug Blackout Blackouts Brain drug Drugs Medicine Research Science

June 18 2011

derry
03:40

Excessive Gaming Might Actually Rewire Your Brain [Gaming]

China has more internet and gaming addicts than any other country. They also conduct more research on the issue than anyone. And according to a study, Chinese researchers think that excessive gaming can permanently alter brain function. More »


Tags: Gaming Addiction biology Brain Brains gaming addiction Medical Medicine Science Videogames

June 13 2011

derry
23:43

Cool Your Brain For Better Sleep [Science]

Counting sheep, popping sleeping pills and staring blindly at the ceiling wont help you get to sleep as quickly as a cooling brain cap says a study presented at the Sleep 2011 Conference. More »


Tags: Science Appic Brain Insomnia metabolism School of Medicine Sleep Study University of Pittsburgh

June 07 2011

derry
15:00

Watching a Robin Williams Movie Makes You Cleverer Than Watching a Quantum Electronics Talk [Science]

Who would have guessed that watching a washed-up comedian do his thang would encourage more creativity and cleverness than a few minutes of watching something intelligent? That's the findings from Northwestern University, which studied how people react to a puzzle in different moods. More »


Tags: Science Anterior cingulate cortex Brain Brains Comedy Health northwestern university Robin Williams

May 02 2011

derry
14:29

Osama Bin Laden's Body Identified Using His Dead Sister's Brain [Osama]

Know how the U.S. military was able to confirm the identity of Bin Laden? They matched his DNA with a sample from his sisters brain which they collected when she died "several years ago." More »


Tags: Osama Brain Brains Dna Government Military Osama dna brain OsamaBinLaden Politics Science

March 08 2011

derry
13:20

How an iron rod to the skull changed neuroscience forever [Neuroscience]

On September 13, 1848, an accidental explosion drove a meter-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. More »


Tags: Neuroscience Brain brain injury Epilepsy Frontal lobe History History of science Injury Phineas Gage Science

March 02 2011

derry
01:20

What Happens When You Can't Recognize Faces? [Science]

Sometimes I have trouble associating names with faces but I'm not as bad as Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist and author, who can't recognize any face, including his own. Scientifically speaking, Sacks suffers from a disorder called prosopagnosia, which is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired. More »


Tags: Science Brain Disease disorder Faceblindness MedicalScience Oliversacks

February 22 2011

derry
23:09

New Evidence Shows That Cellphones Can Alter Brain Function [Science]

Talk on your cellphone for an hour or more a day? Scientists have discovered that you're speeding up brain activity in the area near the antenna. Now we just need to figure out if that's a good or a bad thing. C'mon good thing! [NY Times] More »


Tags: Science Brain Brains Cellphones Medicine Research

February 18 2011

derry
05:00

A Rubik's Cube for Brainiacs [Desired]

Instead of matching up colors, this Rubik's cube requires you to properly align brainfolds in order to solve the puzzle. It seems like it'd be hard to tell how much progress you were making however. Just thinking about it is making my own brain hurt. [Moist Production] More »


Tags: Desired Brain Brain rubiks cube Moist production Puzzles rubiks cube Toys

February 11 2011

derry
22:33

All The Computers = One Human Brain [Datapoint]

It's obviously a guesstimate, but a pair of researchers are saying all the computing power in all the general purpose computers (that's your PC, laptops, etc.) is equivalent to the instructions-per-second an average brain can execute. [Ars via Gawker] More »


Tags: datapoint Brain Brain Computing Brains Computers Computing Data Science
derry
02:00

The Thinking Cap Is No Longer Just an Expression [Weird Science]

Scientists continue the important work of turning phrases of speech into actual things! In this case, from Australian researchers Allan Snyder and Richard Chi comes a genuine thinking cap that uses 10 to 15 minutes of low-level electrical pulses to stimulate "new modes of thinking" in patients. Slap an Orioles logo on that thing and I'm in. [News AU via Geekologie] More »


Tags: Weird Science Brain Hats Research Science thinking cap
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