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DARPA's Brain Implants Would Help Replace Metal Function in Wouded Warfighters
Traumatic brain injuries affect as many as 20 percent of warfighters returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the Pentagon's whiz kids at DARPA have turned to optogenetic brain implants that use light pulses to control brain cells, and hopefully reroute brain activity, Wired's Danger Room reports. Such brain implants made from electrodes or optical fibers would sit on the brain's surface and monitor the electrical signals sent among neurons. They would also beam light pulses to stimulate specific parts of the brain in response, and ideally help the brain function normally despite having damaged areas. The appropriately-named REPAIR (Reorganization and Plasticity to Accelerate Injury Recovery) project involves a team led by Stanford and Brown universities working with a two-year budget of $14.. » read more
Jessica Cox Becomes First Pilot With No Arms (with video and slide show)
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Justice Department seeking lawyers with ‘mental retardation’
WASHINGTON -- In its ostensible attempt to create a nondiscriminatory application process, the Department of Justice is inviting candidates with "mental retardation" to pursue attorney posts. A DOJ job listing at its official Web site reveals that its Civil Rights Division is seeking 10 "experienced" trial attorneys for its Voting Section in Washington, D.C. and is encouraging "qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply." The targeted disabilities it mentions include "mental retardation" and "mental illness," among others such as blindness and deafness.. » read more
Patrick Henry Hughes - An Amazing Young Man !
VIEW THIS VIDEO http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=9xwCG0Ey2Mg. » read more
Alonzo Clemons - Savant Extraordinaire
Jan. 21, 2010 Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain In the early 1980's, the movie Rain Man, which featured Dustin Hoffman in the role of a disabled man with remarkable skills of memory, brought national attention to a phenomenon known as Savant Syndrome. People with Savant Syndrome have both a developmental disability (mental retardation or autism) and a spectacular, genius-level skill in a specific area. The interest in savants created by the Rain Man character resulted in several television specials on the subject that featured some of the real savants in the country. One of these individuals was Alonzo Clemons, an artist known for producing marvelous animal sculptures from memory alone.. » read more
FOUR MIRACLES (Four Short Videos)
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Gardasil Victim Speaks Out After 2 Years
Oct. 26, 2009 Brittney gives an emotionally charged overview of what her life has been like for the past two years. She struggles daily with the fact her life has been forever changed. A doctor frightened her into taking the Gardasil vaccine by telling her she could get an HPV through a "possible" lab accident at college - where her blood could mingle with someone elses who had an HPV. She was never told HPV's are sexually transmitted deseases.. » read more
IRAN: BLOGS STIRRING, "AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI IS IN COMA"
AGI) - Rome, 14 Oct. – Iran’s Supreme Guide, ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “is in coma”. The news, reported by US journalist Michael Ledeen who cites “excellent sources”, is bouncing around Iranian blog sites, to the point that many have already taken to the streets in Teheran. Ledeen wrote in website 'Pajamasmedia' that “This news was reported to me by a person who is in a position to know about these things. I am full aware (since there have been past reports on the death of Khamenei) that it is easy to be fooled, in the past (the Supreme Guide) already had health problems and was admitted to hospital, but the source (of this report) is excellent”.. » read more
A Giant of a Man - Meet Nick Vujicic
Oct. 1, 2009 His name is Nick Vujicic and he's 25 years old. He was born without arms or legs and given no medical reason for this condition. Faced with countless challenges and obstacles, God has given him the strength to surmount what others might call impossible. Along with that, the Lord has placed within him an unquenchable passion to share this same hope and genuine love that he's personally experienced with more than two million people all over the globe.. » read more
David McClure of McKinney: A senior moment ... at 48?
August 6, 2009 (June 26, 2009) $5.37. That's what the kid behind the counter at Taco Bueno said to me. I dug into my pocket and pulled out some lint and two dimes and something that used to be a Jolly Rancher. Having already handed the kid a five-spot, I started to head back out to the truck to grab some change when the kid with the Emo hairdo said the harshest thing anyone has ever said to me.. » read more
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