Hibernating ground squirrels provide clues to new stroke treatments.
″ A treatment to help brain cells survive a stroke-induced lack of oxygen and glucose could dramatically improve patient outcomes, but no such neuroprotective agents for stroke patients exist.”
“ebselen—was found to both boost SUMOylation in rat cells and keep them alive in the absence of oxygen and glucose.”
“We suggest that our personal awareness does not create, cause or choose our beliefs, feelings or perceptions. Instead, the contents of consciousness are generated “behind the scenes” by fast, efficient, non-conscious systems in our brains. All this happens without any interference from our personal awareness, which sits passively in the passenger seat while these processes occur. ”
″ Jordan does not imagine what we could learn if humanity somehow converted the entire cosmos into a vast computing device, he asks, now that the universe has undergone billions of years of change in accordance with the laws of nature, can we use what we see through our telescopes to gain insights into difficult computational problems? ”
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Hibernating ground squirrels provide clues to new stroke treatments.
″ A treatment to help brain cells survive a stroke-induced lack of oxygen and glucose could dramatically improve patient outcomes, but no such neuroprotective agents for stroke patients exist.”
“ebselen—was found to both boost SUMOylation in rat cells and keep them alive in the absence of oxygen and glucose.”
http://www.sciencecodex.com/hibernating-ground-squirrels-provide-clues-new-stroke-treatments-617126
This is also important for space travel to the Belt and beyond. There is some research on-going on hibernation for humans.
and this, reverses brain trauma injury in mice.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171117195341.htm
What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind?
https://theconversation.com/what-if-consciousness-is-not-what-drives-the-human-mind-86785
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01924/full
“We suggest that our personal awareness does not create, cause or choose our beliefs, feelings or perceptions. Instead, the contents of consciousness are generated “behind the scenes” by fast, efficient, non-conscious systems in our brains. All this happens without any interference from our personal awareness, which sits passively in the passenger seat while these processes occur. ”
Brain wiring differences in people and crows vs. primates
http://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/69331994/036
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/11/one-gene-in-human-brain-differentiates-us-from-other-primates-we-have-no-idea-what-its-doing-there.html
https://sciencebulletin.org/archives/17710.html
http://the-digital-reader.com/2017/11/23/anti-sf-bias-leads-poorer-reading-comprehension-study-finds/
The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5025014/
Looks like it makes you feel tougher, but didn’t affect illness days.
Wonder if this is the same folks that did the sauna protects from alzheimers and heart failure.…
What is the computational power of the universe?
″ Jordan does not imagine what we could learn if humanity somehow converted the entire cosmos into a vast computing device, he asks, now that the universe has undergone billions of years of change in accordance with the laws of nature, can we use what we see through our telescopes to gain insights into difficult computational problems? ”
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.103512
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/nios-wit111517.php
Sage—Administrative AI , and ethical coding statement. PDF
https://www.sage.com/~/media/group/files/business-builders/business-builders-ethics-of-code.pdf?la=en
Kiss your car goodbye,
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20171105/INDUSTRY_REDESIGNED/171109944/bob-lutz:-kiss-the-good-times-goodbye
“Everyone will have five years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap or trade it on a module.”