Interesting Links for 14-05-2012
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andrewducker- 100,000 LED lights float down the Sumida River
- Why Hawkeye is awesome
- Why (most) politicians don’t get the internet
- Why has the UK got so few women scientists?
- The IFS backs a land value tax
- 100-year-old photos of British India
- Civil Partnerships and Marriage: What's The Difference?
- Thinking About God Improves Our Self-Control
- Damon Lindelof talks about "Prometheus", rewrites, and how it changed from being a prequel to "Alien"
- DSM-5, what's in and what's out in the psychiatric profession's diagnostic manual
- The Occupy movement now has a manifesto.
- Someone wants to know if there is a modern browser that runs on Windows 3.1.
- The $144,146,165 Button
- George Lucas Does Something Admirable
Movies
- An awesome iPad engraving
- Edible Chocolate Brain from MRI Scan - 3D Printing FTW!
- RE: The Dark One, In Case It Should Arise from Its Horrible Abyss
- The dangers of chiropractic treatments are under-reported
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Date: 2012-05-14 02:11 pm (UTC)I wouldn't have believed it before following the link, but that title actually makes it sound less awesome than it really is – because it's possible to misunderstand as meaning merely that someone is making and selling these things, whereas the real article explains how to make your own based on your own brain, which is an order of magnitude cooler!
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Date: 2012-05-14 02:59 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFi8but3Vw
Also I love love love how seriously they talk about chocolate in that video.
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Date: 2012-05-14 04:40 pm (UTC)The tricky bit is getting the scan in the first place, and then getting your hands on the data in the second. In the UK at least, if a brain MRI is clinically indicated you'll get one, and if you're up to it and they're not too busy they might let you have a glance at it while they're looking, but AIUI getting hold of the data falls in to the 'extra costs, charge required' Data Protection procedures. If there's nothing obviously badly wrong with your head, getting one is expensive and very difficult.
If I'm wrong about this I would really, really like to know, because as well as a mould for making chocolate brains ("my brain has melted!") and jelly brains ("my brain's turned to jelly!" - great for Zombie party food too), I would like a lifesize model of my brain on my desk ("I need to put my brain on to that one"), possibly painted green in a jar of liquid. And also a little version to put on my keyring. ("I keep my brain handy, right here in my pocket.") And lots of little tiny ones, say 1 cm diameter, that I can stick to just about every tool I might use with Sugru, from shiny gadgets to lump hammers, so I can say "I need my brain for this job!".
(Why yes, yes I have thought about this one in the past ....)
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Date: 2012-05-14 04:43 pm (UTC)(only reason I've not done it is because I have hard-to-remove piercing work)
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Date: 2012-05-14 04:44 pm (UTC)I got it by taking part in a study, specifically because I knew they were going to do MRI scans (comparing totally ordinary people like me to people with schizophrenia).
If you have a local university with a psychology/psychiatry department then keep an eye on their noticeboards...
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Date: 2012-05-14 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-14 08:20 pm (UTC)