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Jun 13, 2019

Brain surgery using sound waves

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Doctors in London have used sound waves to successfully operate deep inside the brain.

They treated a man from Cornwall who suffered from uncontrollable tremors in his right hand.

The ultrasound machine Exablate Neuro, is produced by Insightec, a technology firm based in Israel. Their graphic explains how it works.

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Jun 13, 2019

The world’s largest set of brain scans are helping reveal the workings of the mind and how diseases ravage the brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

ENIGMA consortium’s probe of many brain disorders finds common structural changes in diverse kinds of epilepsy.

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Jun 13, 2019

Taiga Motors launches new electric snowmobiles with impressive specs

Posted by in category: transportation

Taiga Motors is one of the rare companies working to bring to market an all-electric snowmobile, which is actually a segment of transportation that desperately needs cleaner solutions.

The startup is unveiling today its new lineup of electric snowmobiles with some impressive specs.

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Jun 13, 2019

The illusion of time

Posted by in category: physics

Andrew Jaffe probes Carlo Rovelli’s study arguing that physics deconstructs our sense of time.

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Jun 13, 2019

Mysterious Majorana quasiparticle is now closer to being controlled for quantum computing

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

As mysterious as the Italian scientist for which it is named, the Majorana particle is one of the most compelling quests in physics.

Its fame stems from its strange properties—it is the only particle that is its own antiparticle—and from its potential to be harnessed for future quantum computing.

In recent years, a handful of groups including a team at Princeton have reported finding the Majorana in various materials, but the challenge is how to manipulate it for quantum computation.

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Jun 13, 2019

Congress Is Officially Freaking Out About Deepfakes

Posted by in category: government

Outgunned

The news comes after the spread of a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that had been tampered with to make her appear drunk. Earlier this month, the video mysteriously disappeared from Facebook.

Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday, “I don’t think we’re well prepared at all. And I don’t think the public is aware of what’s coming. There’s no end to the pernicious abuse of this technology.”

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Jun 13, 2019

Research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics

UMBC’s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant’s circadian rhythm (essentially, an internal clock) and its ability to fend off diseases and pests. The findings were 10 years in the making and published in Nature Communications this week. The results could eventually lead to plants that are more resistant to disease-causing pathogens and better treatment for human diseases.

“It’s quite cool,” Lu says, “because, in both and animals, people are beginning to study the crosstalk between the clock and the immunity system.”

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Jun 13, 2019

Bill Gates: Custom Cancer Vaccines Will Revolutionize Medicine

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

And unlike chemotherapies, they’d leave healthy cells largely undamaged.

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Jun 13, 2019

Control of Life: Pictures From a Medical Revolution, 1965

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Artificial wombs.


LIFE.com republishes part of a 1965 LIFE magazine series that grappled with some of the era’s most exciting and troubling advances in science and medicine.

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Jun 13, 2019

Ubiquitous Patterns: As Above, So Below | Video

Posted by in categories: cosmology, neuroscience, particle physics

From the synapses that connect billions of neurons in the brain to the filaments of dark matter that link galactic superclusters, there’s a fractal reiteration across the magnitude of scales akin to the Mandelbrot fractal set. The mathematics behind the Mandelbrot set, which is derived from a very simple underlying formula, makes me think that its intricate fractal chaos and stunningly beautiful design can’t help but leave a feeling that there’s something larger than life going on here, that you are staring right at some ineffable cosmic mystery. https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/ubiquity-of-patterns-in-nature #patterns #fractals #fractality #SyntellectHypothesis #FiveParadigms #MindsEvolution #FractalPatterns #EmergentPatterns #AsAboveSoBelow #UbiquitousPatterns #FractalGeometry #SacredGeometry #MandelbrotSet #MTheory #MultiFractality


In Nature, we find patterns, designs and structures from the most minuscule particles, to expressions of life discernible by human eyes, to the greater cosmos. These inevitably follow geometrical archetypes, platonic solids, some call it sacred geometry, which reveal to us the essence of each form and its vibrational resonances. They are also symbolic of the underlying holistic principle of inseparability of the part and the whole.

It is this principle of oneness underlying all geometry that permeates the architecture of all form in its myriad diversity. This principle of interconnectedness, inseparability and unity provides us with a continuous reminder of our relationship to the whole, a blueprint for the mind to contemplate the sacred foundation of all things created.

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