Another cool and freaky way for Science to read your mind:
Breakthrough: The first sound recordings based on reading people’s minds
Neuroscientists have developed a way to listen to words you've heard, by translating brain activity directly into sound. Their findings represent a major step towards understanding how our brains make sense of speech, and are paving the way for brain implants that could one day translate your inner thoughts into audible sentences.
You can listen to a recording of words played to the test subjects and the sounds the scientists reconstructed by studying their brain activity.
Livin' in the future, man....
This is the most beautiful performance report ever. [link] I'm in tears.
That's just about the most wonderful thing I've ever read.
Wow. That totally deserves to go viral. It's beautiful.
Lovely!
I love my Y. I love that even without my rocking neighbors, it gives me such a sense of community. I know many of the aqua aerobics folks by name, as I'm usually finishing up my swim when they start, and have helped more than a few ladies fasten their suits. We good-naturedly taunt each other about the pool temps (I like it colder, they like it warmer.)
Anyway, tonight an older Belgian woman who I've seen around the hood formally introduced herself. Turns out she lives a couple blocks over, moved in just a few months before me, as also is a big old neighborhood fan. But it was how she introduced herself that charmed me: "Excuse me, I see you all the time here, and I think in the neighborhood, but I'm not sure. I'm Ursula. Were you by chance the one who was catching the kitten this fall? Along with an older couple?" Hah! Indeed, I was. I finally realized she was the one who came by as we'd just caught Pumpkin, and I had half-jokingly asked if she wanted a cat (sometimes, it's hard to recognize people out of their swim caps and suits.) She wanted to know what became of her (ahahaha!) She told me that had it been a month later, she would have taken me up on it right there; she'd been keeping her daughter's cats and was full up, but daughter was able to reclaim them shortly thereafter. Anyway, she was pleased to hear Pumpkin settled in well.
I mentioned our regular market-going, and she said she usually goes around that time and will watch to join us.
Interesting lady. She's I'm guessing in her late 70s and had spent the years prior to moving to Ednor travelling, including "a year of travel study." Class started before I could find out more.
how unexpected and wonderful. thanks for sharing the performance report.
For all that any performance strives for perfection, no matter how they define it, magic is not achieved through perfection. Magic is when the audience connects and is moved.
Awwww... lovely performance note.
Luckily his handwriting, well, it's kinda pretty actually.
Is this a flirt thing, ita?
Appropriate to this board, that damn Angel quote is tickling my brain, and while it isn't exactly appropriate here, it is one of my favorites:
If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.
