Unbelievable. From UC Berkeley: Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and computational models, UC Berkeley researchers have succeeded in decoding and reconstructing people’s dynamic visual experiences – in this case, watching Hollywood movie trailers. As yet, the technology can only reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed. However, the breakthrough paves the way for reproducing …
Daily Archive: September 23, 2011
Sep 23 2011
The outrage over Troy Davis, vs the outrage over the Death Penalty
As I said over at X Blog, Canada has executed a “mere” 710 people in its history. We lost our taste for the death penalty in 1976, 14 years after our last killing in 1962. Wednesday night, the US Supreme Court heard and denied an appeal for stay of execution of Troy Davis, a man …
Sep 23 2011
Through Hardship, To The Stars
I love NASA’s The Sagan Series, done by Youtube user damewse. We are capable of so much. A mere hundred thousand years ago, we were just climbing down from the trees. We probably reached behavioral modernity about fifty thousand years ago. As a species, we are still in our infancy and we’re already exploring the …
Sep 23 2011
Mock The Movie: Rocketship X-M transcript
If simply watching the movie and mocking it yourself wasn’t enough, and if you happened to miss this Twitter event, please enjoy the following transcript of five nerds thoroughly eviscerating this Lloyd Bridges “masterpiece”.
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