Beware of misleading research, at the end of this article they briefly explain the truth, that this bias is aquired and not INNATE. It has already been proven that people are equally implicitly prejudice of their own race in situations were that race is stigmatized. This study wont explain that because its redundant. Bias is acquired and has nothing to do with our DNA, although thats the idea they are trying to convey in the headlines... If you want to test how bias you are go here https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ In these studies it is found that members of a particular group (black people for instance) will be just as implicitly prejudice as a white person in situations when they have been indoctrinated and acculturated with negative stereotypes about their group. Like A black kid watching the show cops, or gangster rap videos . This also is the reason why there are so many psychological problems amongst these minority individuals, because they have been conditioned to hate themselves. All the current study did was identify brain activity in the same way this test detects bias, it says nothing as to how that came to be. Add Comment Secretion monitoring cumming soon!!! 04/22/2010
Human- April 21st ONE person (who probably just had a stroke!!!) and smoked 12 joints a day (that's not even close to normal even for a heavy smoker and really its fucking stupid and a Darwinian gift if anything) in recorded history has died (not really proven though according to bullshit article below). This in itself provides retroactive justification for incarcerating millions of people and fueling the profitable drug war that is not intended to be won. It is genius that the media publicizes a story like this on April 20th, which for whatever dumb reason (its actually really dumb in fact) is a sort of a marijuana holiday... Its based on some old ritual of kids getting high after high school. In other news 500 people died from alcohol yesterday but who gives a flying fuck about that. To do so would be to make sense, and we are not into making cents, only dollars. A quote from article "Philip Guy, a lecturer in addictions at the University of Hull, said that “cannabis has changed. Nowadays it is a lot stronger than it used to be. It is not the nice hippy drug it once was." Oh right. Its no longer the nice hippy drug it was, now it kills 1 in every 100 million users, imagine ten years from now we may have a dozen on our hands, hopefully automatic life sentences can be issued as a deterrent!!! OR ELSE THE 12 IDIOTS WHO SMOKE 1 OUNCE OF MARIJUANA A DAY MAY DIE. From NZ Herald Scientists have been given permission to put human genes into goats, sheep and cows for the next 20 years, to see if the animals will produce human proteins in their milk. But people will not be pouring the genetically modified milk on their Weetbix just yet - the milk will be discarded. AgResearch won Environmental Risk Management Authority approval to allow a handful of scientists to breed and keep genetically-modified animals at the Ruakura research facility, near Hamilton. The work will begin with genetically modified cows, and could be expanded to genetically modified goats within the next year. Read more From Brainicane Mathematical Model Analyzes Facebook Networks to Prioritize Who Should Receive VaccinationsPeople who are “bridges” among different social groups appear as good vaccination bets With vaccine supplies limited, social butterflies on Facebook could find themselves targeted for real-world injections. Stanford University researchers have created an algorithm that uses social networking data to identify the people who are “bridges” between different tight-knit circles of friends or communities, so that limited vaccine supplies can be used wisely. The mathematical model focused on the fact that just a few individuals often form the links between different social groups. It also made use of data that came from back in 2005, when Facebook was only open to college students. The relationships and interactions on five university campuses provided a useful starting scenario for the model to recognize clusters of people and predict bridges between them. “When a new virus starts spreading, neither the time nor the necessary doses of vaccine to immunize everyone is available,” said Marcel Salathe, a postdoc biology researcher at Stanford University. So you’d want a strategy that allows you to protect a population as much as possible given the limited resources that you have.” Bionic eyes prepped for T-100's 04/04/2010
From Crunch Gear I remember the glory days of bionics… you know, when I’d see an article on bionic eyes and not think “Another one?” Because really, there are a lot out there. From homegrown products like Eyeborg and this lady’s webcam eye to more substantial efforts like Second Sight and the Boston Retinal Implant Program, it seems like everybody and their dog is whipping up some sort of vision substitution system. And my visual neuroanatomy professor said it couldn’t be done! In your face, Dr. Schein! READ MORE FROM: U of Fl. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Call them tattletale pills. Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones or scientists working with patients in clinical drug trials. “It is a way to monitor whether your patient is taking their medication in a timely manner,” said Rizwan Bashirullah, UF assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering. Such a pill is needed because many patients forget, refuse or bungle the job of taking their medication. This causes or exacerbates medical problems, spurs hospitalizations or expensive medical procedures and undercuts clinical trials of new drugs. The American Heart Association calls patients’ failure to follow prescription regimens “the number one problem in treating illness today.” Studies have found, for example, that patients with chronic diseases normally take only about half their prescribed medications. According to the American Heart Association, 10 percent of hospital admissions result from patients not following the guidelines on their prescriptions. Other studies have found that not taking medication properly results in 218,000 deaths annually. READ MORE | All News
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