Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Skull in Underwater Cave May Be Earliest Trace of First Americans
Explorers have discovered what might be the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas.
Alex Alvarez, Franco Attolini, and Alberto (Beto) Nava are members of PET (Projecto Espeleológico de Tulum), an organization that specializes in the exploration and survey of underwater caves on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Alex, Franco and Beto have surveyed tens of thousands of feet of mazelike cave passages in the state of Quintana Roo. The team's relatively recent explorations of a large pit named Hoyo Negro (Black Hole, in Spanish), deep within a flooded cave, resulted in their breathtaking and once-in-a-lifetime discovery of the remains of an Ice Age mastodon and a human skull at the very bottom of the black abyss.
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Via: National Geographic
Friday, February 18, 2011
9 Ways to Hack your Brain to Think Faster
Lets face it, the brain is basically a biological computer. It needs food, it needs oxygen, it needs exercise. You can take steps to improve the power of your brain, in effect it’s about improving, modifying, hacking the brain. OK, we may not get to the level of Einstein, but no reason why you can’t be getting the best out of what you have got.
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Via Geek With Laptop
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British cave yields ice-age skull cups
Ice age Britons drank from human skulls and may even have eaten flesh and bone marrow, but they were far from barbarians.
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Via: PhysOrg.com
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Boy Without a Cerebellum Baffles Doctor
Chase was also born prematurely, and he was legally blind. When he was 1 year old, doctors did an MRI, expecting to find he had a mild case of cerebral palsy. Instead, they discovered he was completely missing his cerebellum -- the part of the brain that controls motor skills, balance and emotions.
"That's when the doctor called and didn't know what to say to us," Britton said in a telephone interview. "No one had ever seen it before. And then we'd go to the neurologists and they'd say, 'That's impossible.' 'He has the MRI of a vegetable,' one of the doctors said to us."
Chase is not a vegetable, leaving doctors bewildered and experts rethinking what they thought they knew about the human brain.
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Via: AOL News
"That's when the doctor called and didn't know what to say to us," Britton said in a telephone interview. "No one had ever seen it before. And then we'd go to the neurologists and they'd say, 'That's impossible.' 'He has the MRI of a vegetable,' one of the doctors said to us."
Chase is not a vegetable, leaving doctors bewildered and experts rethinking what they thought they knew about the human brain.
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Via: AOL News
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Experts determine age of book 'nobody can read'
Poor diets may lower children's IQ
Diets high in fat, sugar and processed foods are lowering children's IQ, a new study suggests. The report says that eating habits among three year olds shapes brain performance as they get older.
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Via: guardian.co.uk
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