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10/21/09
How much did this study cost, about a million dollars? #neuroscience
10/21/09
10/21/09
So, DUH... they're repeating old studies with bad methodology. I guess this is what passes for intellectual at Duke? #neuroscience
10/22/09
I'm going to go with: for the money.
-Kle. #neuroscience
10/21/09
Why second, you might ask? Well, first of all, they're gonna be fucking expensive. An iPhone cost roughly the GNP of Egypt when it first came out; imagine what a shunt in your skull that will stream the internet directly to your brain will be worth.
Secondly, I don't need to be dealing with first-gen bugs in my wetware. Algae cultures pourin' out of your eye sockets and what-not. #neuroscience
10/21/09
1.i fought 4 guys and they were all big brutes but my little testosterone filled body clubbered em down
2.after that i had sex with 3 girls all at the same time and multiple times too.
3.i am 53 years old but i got tons of that ole testosterone #neuroscience
10/21/09
Tough one can always hope... Gost in the Shell here I come! #neuroscience
10/21/09
Not true. Just yesterday I saw a recent piece on a two-way artificial hand and it doesn't use optogenetics. Watch the video. #neuroscience
10/21/09
[io9.com] #neuroscience
10/21/09
"Too bad the testosterone increase doesn't transfer to the socialist politicians so they will stand and defend the USA."
Seriously, dude. There's a whole 1 socialist politician in the federal government. His name is Bernie Sanders.
PS Why did the Barr voters' testosterone levels drop? That makes as much sense as if my levels dropped when McKinney didn't win.
"OH NO my third party candidate didn't win an election in a two-party system!" #neuroscience
10/21/09
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10/21/09
Aw rilly?
In other news, women cry more often and longer than men.
(I really read that was news today)
Surprising huh?
We need reinforcements, let's call captain obvious.
Yeah, I read the whole article and it IS bad science, because if you want to prove that the event E lowers trestosterone in group A, you have to compare the group A when E happens, with the group A when E doesn't happen, leaving all the other circumstances unchanged.
The conclusion seems pretty obvious to me, but the methodology is flawed. They should have repeated this with at least two groups of republicans and two groups of democrats, measuring with two differents meethods, one in each group, because maybe chewing gum raises Republicans' testosterone and loweed it in Democrats. And repeated it at least twice, having another day (same week day, diferent week), and measure the difference to a regular week, because maybe Republicans lose more testosterone after their sunday dinner than the Democrats do.
As I say, it seems obvious that disappointment lowers one's testosterone, but this experiment doesn't prove it. #neuroscience
10/21/09
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10/21/09
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This is still so awesome, though. Of course, changing the genetic structure of neurons seems a bit scary, too... I wonder if there'd be a way to build a sort of "adapter," which would be built separately from your body, and would include (artificially-grown) genetically augmented neurons that would respond to light signals from electronic devices, and could be "grown into" your nervous system, without changing neurons you already have? #neuroscience
10/21/09
10/21/09
very bad illustration. #neuroscience