Posts Tagged ‘ Brain ’

Japan and its alarm clocks. Most of these devices force you to wake up through an extra-annoying noise (or by moving away from you), but this new one, the so-called Twist Alarm Clock , makes you solve (simple) math problems.
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Talking with Bill Nye the Science Guy is like meeting your favorite HS science teacher in a bar—the conversation might flail wildly, but you learn something at every twist. This week, I picked his brain about, well, brains. Are there similarities between computer memory and human memory? Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember...
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You have more of your memories stored online than all of your ancestors ever left behind. The future of memory is already here. When I take picture of a really delicious chocolate bread pudding that I'm about to eat, I might upload it to share with tens, or thousands, of people. That photo, the memory...
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Researchers would be wasting their time, and their patrons' money, scanning my brain. They'd quickly find nothing but World of Warcraft Auction House strategies and an incredible amount of space devoted to translation Marca, A Bola, La Gazzetta Dello Sport, and France Football every morning. Maybe if they'd scan, say, the brains of Fez...
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If you’ve tried learning to play the guitar recently, but failed to follow through, undoubtedly will probably ask yourself if it really is too late to start. Maybe you seem to be ashamed because the insufficient follow-through. Or, perhaps you now think that you are actually too older for you to learn to play....
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