Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Ghost Ride
In order to not focus on the election too much, here is a video compilation of people getting out of their moving cars. It is a fad, apparently, among the youth. Just so long as you vote, youth!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Pushing Daisies
Might be too TLDR for some folks (including me), but just in case someone out there isn't watching the show, the punch line is this: Watch this show.
Unlike Heroes and all the other crap on TV these days, I think the fact that it's up-beat (in a tastefully surreal sort of way) is a hell of a bonus. It apparently takes giant kahones these days to have a witty, well written series that isn't tragic and depressing or an over-the-top comedy.
Let's make our warriors more aggressive!
If troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are having a hard time adjusting to life back home, imagine what the veterans of the future may face. This is from an article about some of the military's new research:
Imagine boosting the aggressiveness of U.S. soldiers and Marines by implanting electrodes in their brains! These warriors would never "win the hearts and minds" of the country they are invading/occupying. I also can't imagine any soldier or Marine would emerge from that experience emotionally healthy. I forsee great demand for psychologists and mental health counselors if this technology is ever developed and used. Hopefully we won't go there.
The original study can be found here. (I haven't read the original.)
The authors studied the outer reaches of the field of “human performance modification”—including brain-computer interfaces, neuro-pharmaceuticals, and “brain plasticity”—in search of advances that may have military applications.... the authors note that research on remote-controlling future soldiers, or stoking their aggression by implanting electrodes in their brains, looks promising in rats.
Imagine boosting the aggressiveness of U.S. soldiers and Marines by implanting electrodes in their brains! These warriors would never "win the hearts and minds" of the country they are invading/occupying. I also can't imagine any soldier or Marine would emerge from that experience emotionally healthy. I forsee great demand for psychologists and mental health counselors if this technology is ever developed and used. Hopefully we won't go there.
The original study can be found here. (I haven't read the original.)
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