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Full-Mental Nudity, first the possible benefits -

I know what you’re thinking: Why would anyone want a machine to read his mind? But imagine being paralyzed, unable to walk, type, or speak. Imagine a helmet full of electrodes, or a chip implanted in your head, that lets your brain tell your computer which key to press. Those technologies are already here. And why endure the agony of mental hunt-and-peck? Why not design computers that, like a smart secretary, can discern and execute even abstract intentions? That’s what Haynes has in mind. You want to open a folder or an e-mail, and your computer does it. Your wish is its command.

I dream of the day that communicating with your computer is nearly seamless, but as Mr. Saletan points out it goes both ways. The computer and anyone else with access ( networks are bound to increase in sophication too. If your computer needs to know something that you’ve requested, but doesn’t know how – it calls another computer of course). Is this the start of computer as I Robot, will they be able to peer into the human soul or more accurately what ever it is that constitutes conscientiousness? Great for some kind of pre-crime as in scifi movies (Minority Report), but as I remember that ended badly. The ultimate erosion of personal privacy, even with a government warrant to do a mind search to see if you’re having any criminal thoughts.

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Green tea may help battle cancer

New evidence for green tea’s anticancer effects have been reported by scientists who have carried out tests on lung cancer cells.

The team found that an extract of the tea is able to restore a key protein, called actin, which becomes disrupted in cancer, helping to repair the damage.

The only way I’ve found that I can get past the taste of green tea is to mix it with the regular orange pekoe that most of us southerns drink. I wonder if that lessens any benefit of the green tea.