The photoswitches can be used to control the activity of proteins in the eye that are essential to transmitting information from the outside world to the brain in normal vision.
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And can we avoid a world in which thinkers are forced into brain-doping in the same way athletes have been pushed to chemically modify their bodies?
Incidentally, the biggest investment brain in the world got caught up tangentially in the subprime mortgage web.
The million-dollar prize will go to an individual or team throughout the world who can demonstrate an extraordinary breakthrough in brain technology with global implications.
The skin not only protects the body, the senses in it also tell the brain a lot about what is going on in the outside world.
Similarly, we believe the human brain generates perceptions of the world in the same way, by encoding the statistical relationships between images and scenes in our past visual experience and uses this as the basis for behaving usefully and consistently towards the sources of visual images.
One of the real shortcomings of the human brain, at least in the business world, is the tendency to hold on to the past.
But while the world waits for brain powered computing there was general agreement that in many ways the key to easily accessible computing wasn't necessarily only a matter of greater sophistication.
The sandwiches and hamburgers have a little more garlic than usual, the pizzas come garnished with soujouk or makanik sausage, and it is probably the only place in the world where you can order a 'lamb's-brain sub sandwich all dressed'!
These days brain research is going on at virtually every Merck lab in the world.
Together, they might transform medicine and computing, pollution and poverty, and our understandings of the brain and the cosmos--in short, they really could change the world.
As an active member of industry organizations that are seriously examining how neuroscience might contribute something beyond highly-subjective brain maps to marketers struggling to help their brands thrive in a ceaselessly evolving world, we have some sensitivity to results so flagrantly disconnected from marketplace realities.
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This brain drain is a big hurdle for creating a corps of world-class math wizards in China.
In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
It is time of remarkable brain development, but also an extremely vulnerable time for young children, especially in the developing world, where a child has a four in ten chance of living in extreme poverty and 10.5 million children under age of 5 die from preventable diseases every year.
Going in with the fastest time in the world you think you are ahead of the field and everybody but I've got to use my brain a little bit smarter about how I approach this situation.
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