Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureNew research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to decoded fMRI neurofeedback to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It’s the kind of thing seen in Hollywood’s “Matrix” franchise.Via medicalxpress.com
Cognizant Transmutation
Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureSpaceX, a private company, will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new U.S. To encourage commercial cargo runs, NASA has hired SpaceX and a second company, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to fly cargo to the space station, a $100 billion project of 16…
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationWith the House having voted 406-17 to “close” portions of the meetings and avoid public scrutiny, members from both chambers and both parties are meeting in a secretive conference committee to work on reconciling the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. On the military detention provision, their main task is going…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Just what Americans yearn for: A high-tech presidential ticket funded by secret Wall Street money… This is a brilliant play by the 1% to deflect political changed. If you want a cool organization to check out see http://unitedrepublic.orgVia www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Philip Glass and Lou Reed occupied Lincoln Center last week, after a performance of Glass’ opera, “Satyagraha,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. “When righteousness withers away, and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man among men, for the protection…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future China’s booming economy and growing technological infrastructure may thrust it to the forefront of the next generation of computing, many American experts say. China is now the world’s second-largest venture capital market, growing to $7.6 billion from just $2.2 billion in 2005, while the American venture capital market has remained largely stagnantVia www.nytimes.com