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    Brain-Reading Machines Know What You've Seen

    How You Inherit Genes That Make You Smarter

    The Next Witness for the Prosecution Could Be Your Brain

    Indian Court Accepts Brain Scans as Evidence of Murder
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    03/19/09

    In reply to How You Inherit Genes That Make You Smarter
    Ok, so does this increased myelinization somehow explain myopia? Is it pleiotropy (the genes that increase myelin sheath thickness increase incidence of myopia)? At least this myelin thickness thing might be influenced by a small enough set of genes that it could make it more likely, right?


    And I know that the structure of the eye determines myopia, but along different lines: why would it matter how much of the occipital lobe is heritable? I mean, it's visual processing, right? Are there really that many gradations of visual processing ability? Or is it just the speed at which the brain processes visual stimuli (and things like saccades and whatnot that I guess could influence at least the ability to learn, if not intelligence per se).

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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    03/18/09

    In reply to How You Inherit Genes That Make You Smarter
    I'm skeptical. It's seems an oversimplification that faster neural impulse speed idicates greater intelligence. Efficiency in this one area is hardly the only factor, and it doesn't really define what "intelligence" is.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    @corpore-metal: Personally, I've always found that I can arrive at the wrong conclusion much faster than those around me.
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    03/18/09

    In reply to How You Inherit Genes That Make You Smarter
    I made a machine that detects lower intelligence. It's just a wood-chipper with a sign,

    "FREE PORN, CHOCOLATE, AND BOOZE INSIDE!"


    I am going to save the world.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/18/09

    @Grey_Area: WHERE ARE MY ARMS???
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    03/18/09

    @Grey_Area: Darwin Awards FTW!
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    Image of Anekanta - Space Hippy! Anekanta - Space Hippy!
    03/18/09

    @Grey_Area: The only problem is, they have to be able to read the sign...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/18/09

    @Anekanta: Animated pictoglyphs, with a catchy song by Hannah Montana or Kid Rock. Still working on the self-cleaning unit. Sound baffles work great.

    I want one of these in every 7/11 or equivalent in the world.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/18/09

    @Grey_Area: In that case, in Taiwan it would be Young-Js. Here in San Jose, you might as well install it at the Great Mall right next to the Hot Topic.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/18/09

    @Grey_Area: Pictoglyphs? That sounds hard. I'm bored.
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    03/19/09

    @Grey_Area: Potential flaw!


    The smart people will use TOOLS to get to the porn, chocolate, and booze! Therefore there will be no bait for the stupid people!


    I OUTSMRTED YOU!!!

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    03/19/09

    @Ghede: I will add, "FREE TOOLS" to the sign.


    Check and mate.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/19/09

    @Grey_Area: Man, you were up at 1:30am scheming against people who want to get free booze n porn? Is there something you want to tell us?
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    03/18/09

    In reply to How You Inherit Genes That Make You Smarter
    That's ok, intelligence turns me on more anyway!


    *Aaaah-OOOGAH*

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    Image of snowcrash snowcrash
    03/18/09

    In reply to How You Inherit Genes That Make You Smarter
    kinda obvious if you ask me.


    redneck/chav + redneck/chav = more stupid


    smart + smart = more smart


    some things in science are pretty clear.

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    Image of Jogfrog Jogfrog
    03/18/09

    @snowcrash: everyone knows rednecks only breed with livestock
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    Image of k386 k386
    03/18/09

    @Jogfrog: that's not fair! I breed with my sisters and comely cousins too!
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    03/18/09

    @k386: *stunned silence* REDNECKS KNOW HOW TO USE THE INTERWEBS?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/18/09

    In reply to How You Inherit Genes That Make You Smarter
    While I freely hold young earthers and other anti-science types in contempt, this is one field of study that gets very close to where I refuse to let my science get in the way of my own politics.


    But I can freely admit my hypocrisy! That's gotta count for something!

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/18/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Totally there with you in the anti-intelligence science hypocrisy barrel.
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