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BC.(I): A Neurotechnological Timeline of Innervating Interfaces
References
Hebb, D. O. (1949). The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory. New York: Wiley.
Hochberg, L. R., Serruya, M. D., Friehs, G. M., Mukand, J....
Neural Links: The Road to Real-Life Telepathy
Pssst... you... yes you... Can you hear me?
You hear someone speak to you, but nobody is around. What if that was your reality? Being...
Mind Over Matter: How Brain Implants Are Making Telekinesis Real
Imagine a world where you can move objects and complete tasks simply by thinking about them. Sounds like a pretty relaxing and too-good-to-be-true idea,...
GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and the Protection of Sensitive Genetic Data
In today's data-driven world, few forms of personal information are as personal and revealing as genetic information. Genetic sequencing has become more widely available...
An Egg-istential Question
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
A classic philosophical conundrum, intentionally baffling and likely argument-provoking.
“You need a chicken to lay an egg, but...
Science of Spider Silk
Every year I move into a new room on campus at Georgia Tech, I buy a package of sticky putty, hoping that it will...
Making Bad Decisions: The Science of Decision-Making
MAKING BAD DECISIONS
Ever wonder why you make such bad decisions. We make around 35,000 decisions every day, and they can’t all be good. There...
Pride and [ERROR: FUNCTION TERMINATED]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any homework of significant difficulty is in want of long hours to completion. In this case, twenty...
How Binge-Watching Ruins Your Memory
A Tale of Binge-Watching and You
After years of saying ‘I don’t need it’ or ‘it will waste my time,’ I finally caved last year...
Toxic Birds
Introduction:
To consider something toxic, it must produce “an adverse biological effect” to humans or other animals (“Basic Terminology”). For birds, several species have adverse...