Harvard Medical School may unwittingly assist with solving our (rather misguided) plight, as it just experimented with a system that lets a human mind trigger actions in a rat's motor cortex.

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Yet if that person made just one disdainful reference to someone you admired, that hot negative trigger would quickly rise to the top of your mind.

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Bergman strips away politics to bare the mechanisms of power, including physical violence, media propaganda, and the mind games that turn lovers into survivors pitted against each other in hair-trigger life-and-death decisions, shifting alliances, and perilous collaborations.

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However, as Android games aren't built with a controller in mind, the experience actually using the controller in-game (we played Dead Trigger) was a bit wonky.

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And if the President, by doing this, can trigger pools of investment so that you have more buildings like this, keep in mind it can also change what goes on in every rural place and small town in America.

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With that type of devastating flashback in the forefront of an investors mind, along with the widely held belief that another catastrophe is around the corner, professional investors become sell trigger happy.

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