by | Oct 11, 2015 | Weirdness
from Express Memory loss breakthrough: New implant can reverse Alzheimer’s damage By ANIL DAWAR GETTY Scientists have developed an electronic implant to help brains damaged by Alzheimer’s retain memories. They hope it will be used to take over certain areas of...
by | Oct 10, 2015 | Weirdness
from The Washington Post Thought process: Building an artificial brain Paul Allen’s $500 million quest to dissect the mind and code a new one from scratch Paul Allen has been waiting for the emergence of intelligent machines for a very long time. As a young boy, Allen...
by | Oct 9, 2015 | Weirdness
from The Mirror Online Advanced aliens could ‘conquer and colonise’ our planet, warns Stephen Hawking BY JEFF PARSONS Stephen Hawking believes that aliens visiting Earth might not turn out well for us Stephen Hawking has tackled the mysteries of the...
by | Oct 7, 2015 | Weirdness
from REUTERS via Yahoo! News Post-apocalyptic ‘beaver’ thrived after dinosaurs died By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The world had been wrecked. An asteroid impact in Mexico compounded by colossal volcanism in India 66 million years ago had...
by | Sep 30, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from WIRED The Excruciating, 200-MPH World of Wingsuit Racing by ALEX DAVIES Photo by TRAVIS MICKLE JOE RIDLER HAS jumped out of an airplane nearly 700 times in his life, but when he makes the leap later today, the goal will be about more than reaching the ground...
by | Sep 27, 2015 | Weirdness
from AP ‘Blood Moon’ seen as sign of end times by some Mormons By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A rare confluence of a lunar eclipse and a supermoon set to happen this weekend has prompted such widespread fear of an impending apocalypse that the...
