Jeff!
'War Stories'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Mind reading!
OK, on a very limited basis, but still kinda' freaky:
Brain Scans Helps Scientists "Read" Minds
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Yukiyasu Kamitani of ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, and Frank Tong of Princeton University showed subjects one of eight visual stimuli--images with stripes aligned in various orientations. They determined that the MRI data collected while the volunteers were gazing at the images showed slight differences depending on what picture they viewed. The scientists wrote a computer program that recognized the patterns and found that they could successfully predict what images subjects saw. What is more, when a volunteer was shown two sets of stripes simultaneously--but told to pay attention to just one--the team could tell which set the subject was concentrating on.
In the second experiment, John-Dylan Haynes and Geraint Rees of University College London showed volunteers two images in quick succession, with the first flashing so quickly that the subjects couldn't clearly identify it. But by analyzing their brain activity, the scientists successfully identified which image had been shown, even when the subjects themselves didn't remember seeing it. Together, the results elucidate how the brain reacts to stimuli, even when they are "invisible." If scientists could gain a true understanding of the neural basis of subjective experience, Kamitani and Tong write, it might one day "allow for reliable prediction of a person's mental state based solely on measurements of his or her brain state." --Sarah Graham
hooray, for Meija sighting!
Jeff!! So glad that you are back.
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new mother keeps hidden from the public for about ten days while everything heals - which, of course, is not suspicious, as she’s just given birth.
This is the part I doubt. Somehow, I think it would be more than 10 days to recover from all that surgery well enough not to let on.
Also, who is is out there vain enough not to want to be pregnant-looking, but not so vain she won't get pregnant? Where does she think babies come from, Nordie's?
First off, the celebrity mother gets her silicone breast implants removed early in her pregnancy to prevent stretching, then when the baby is born ... new implants are put back,
Don't really understand this (stretching is the problem so you have two more breast surgeries?). Plus, as with the tales about rib and toe removal I am always suspicious of articles about secret trends in extreme celebrity plastic surgery.