Via Mrs. Weer’d this cool story!
Cognitive scientists working at MIT have devised a means for not only altering the dreams of rats, but of demonstrating a way of testing what they’ve achieved, offering evidence that it can be done, and in so doing have offered a glimpse into what may lie ahead for people who wish to manipulate their own dreams. Daniel Bendor and Matthew Wilson, working out of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have, as they describe in their paper published in Nature Neuroscience, used audio sounds to influence the dreams of rats they were studying.
That’s very neat! It was taken to the dark and sinister extreme in the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember it For You Wholesale” (adapted to screen as “Total Recall”), but really, how cool would it be to buy a designer high-quality dream?
Sebastian has a link of the oral arguments on Kachalsky case.
There is a reason why our opponents are so hostile. We have brilliant minds like Alan Gura who can calmly and frankly explain why the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, even to judges who live in a place that has gotten very used to the infringments of their states.
The case will be very exciting, as Heller and McDonald were simply addressing the “to Keep” part of the 2nd Amendment, now we are addressing (at least in part, it looks like Gura is going after the narrow scope of “May Issue” or “No Issue”, other restrictions like “Gun Free Zones” will likely need to be addressed at a later date) the “And Bear” part.
Heller and McDonald ruled on prohibitions of gun ownership, this case is going after the carrying of said arms in public spaces.
As the joke goes a gun is better than a camera:
I don’t know enough about moose to known if it was sick or just mad with the rut. I do know that just about all my relatives in Northern Maine have moose attack stories. You don’t hear many stories of people actually getting killed, but they’re HUGE so it doesn’t take much.
Carry your damn guns, they aren’t just for two-legged predators. Also if there are BIG dangerous animals in your area you might want to consider what the gun you’re carrying might do if you get attacked by a REALLY big critter.
Some talk on dangerous game carry guns here.
There’s a reason why Socialist Nations build walls to keep their people IN!
Bernard Arnault — the richest man in Europe — has ignited an uproar in France over taxes, citizenship, patriotism and what policies the government needs to promote growth….Arnault — the CEO of French fashion giant LVMH, owner of houses like Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior — is the symbol of France’s treasured luxury fashion industry.
So when the face of “Made in France” confirmed Sunday that he had applied for dual citizenship in Belgium it struck deep chord in France’s national pride.
Despite his protests, many thought it was an attempt to dodge the new Socialist government’s planned 75 percent tax on the country’s wealthiest.
I wonder if France will wise up, or start building walls.
Lawyers defending the neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin have launched a “witch hunt” by seeking Martin’s school and social media records, the family’s lawyer said on Monday.
“I think certainly it is a witch hunt to try to find something to attack the character of a dead child and it’s completely irrelevant because his school records had nothing to do with him (George Zimmerman) shooting Trayvon Martin in the heart on February 26,” said Martin family attorney Ben Crump.
Zimmerman lawyer Mark O’Mara announced on his website last week that he had subpoenaed Martin’s entire school file from the Miami-Dade public school district, including test scores, any disciplinary actions and attendance records.
Since day one the Martin Family has been depicting Trayvon Martin as an angelic little boy who was just out for a walk to get some candy and a soda, who was gunned down in cold blood by George Zimmerman, who they have attempted to depict as a racist loose cannon.
Of course the facts of the case point that this is false. Zimmerman doesn’t even have a speeding ticket to his name, is from an amazingly diverse family and community, and was severely injured before he fired a single shot into Martin’s heart while Martin was beating his head into the concrete sidewalk.
We know Martin had drugs in his system at the time of the attack, he of course was not the small boy shown in the various stock photos and marketing items, and he was shot on a school night miles from his school district because he was under suspension.
The evidence points one way, but hard evidence is needed for a trial, and of course the Martin side has been on an over-zealous lynch mob since the start. Now two wrongs don’t make a right, so I hope the Zimmerman defense team uses discretion in the information acquired. I don’t think its very relevant if Martin was a bad student, or even if he was cutting class, as that doesn’t mean much in this case.
But if Martin had troubles with drugs, violence, and other serious crimes that points to a certain character and helps us see what his motivations might have been, and could GREATLY support George Zimmerman’s consistent and supported story.
This is not a witch hunt, this is keeping an innocent man out of prison by showing all the facts!
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
As you all know I hate unions. People have the right to freely associate, tho people don’t have the right to not support the public schools and their ridiculous unions.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis announced late Sunday night that weekend talks had failed to resolve all the union’s issues. “We have failed to reach an agreement that will prevent a labor strike,” she said. “No CTU members will be inside of our schools Monday.”…“This is not a small commitment we’re handing out at a time when our fiscal situation is really challenged,” Vitale said.
We’re in a recession, the states are strapped for funds….but boy those Unions want more. I can’t can’t blame them because they’ll get it, as the State can’t simply shutter the schools and stop taxing the citizens for it, and let them pursue more reasonable avenues. Sure you can put your kids in private schools…but you’ll still be footing the bill for these greedy goons. Also with the union the state is stuck with the trouble of firing ALL the teachers, or heeding their wishes.
Go follow the link to see what the teachers are paid and compensated for. I suspect there are MANY people who would be willing to do that job for that price, but because all the laws of economics are forfeit with public-sector unions, we have this horrible impasse.
Private sector unions get what they deserve…people in India and China doing their job. Public Sector Unions are simply a hostage negotiation.
Today is a hallowed day that we should never forget, tho a little part of me (very little) appreciates the luxury and progress we’ve had when many people forget that December 7th is also a Hallowed day.
Maybe there will be a day where like the horrible and evil attack by Imperial Japan, where the memory will go dim. Today Japan is our Ally, and people take pride in their Japanese-made consumer goods, and rave about their vacations to the land of the Rising Sun, and of course many Japanese people are proud to call themselves American Citizens, and strive to live and work in a country that was once their mortal enemy.
Its also Patriot’s day here in Massachusetts, a Holiday shrouded in irony when it is celebrated in such an oppressive nanny-state that is so actively hostile to individual liberties.
On September 11th 2001 I was working a contract job doing research off the coast of Maine. I might as well have been watching the news coverage from the Moon. I remember calling my Boss and asking if we should head to the next survey area, or just come home, as Herring research seemed trivial as people were burning and dying, and horrified in our largest city.
My Boss said the job must go on, and while I should have been sleeping during the day, I watched the coverage, napped when I could, and then started running the equipment at sunset.
I’ll be spending today like I did that day, doing science and making the world a better place. The terrorists thought they could stop our way of life, and with Homeland Security and the TSA, they did in a small way. But in the larger sense, they didn’t, and I’ll fight to keep it that way, and repair the damage they did.
Others may forget, but I doubt I ever will.
Pissed sends me this gem!
Even if you have a short beard like mine, it works well if you have a runny nose and no tissue! 8)
I like the Ducklings the most!
Too soft to handle! And some adults:
Sometimes you are a duck! Man I love me some ducks!
