Virtual Purity

Scientists Connect Brain Cells to Nanotube Computer Chips

January 27, 2012

The brain-computer interface will be a critical component for extreme human life extension. Such connections will allow the human brain and mind to expand beyond its current limits and could potentially allow one’s consciousness to long outlive outlive one’s body. We are at the first steps of this inevitable journey, and the work of researchers [...]

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Connect your Brain to the Internet?

January 27, 2012

Today, the Center for American Progress hosted a panel titled “Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense.” CAP Senior Fellow Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D. gave a run down on his book and fellow panelist Jennifer Bard, a law professor at Texas Tech University, gave a legal analysis of advances in neuroscience research as applied to real [...]

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What is Nanotechnology

January 15, 2012

Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers. Physicist Richard Feynman, the father of nanotechnology. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering. [...]

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Chastity Rings

January 15, 2012

A purity ring is a ring given to an adolescent girl to show that she has made a vow to not have sex before she’s married. It’s sort of a public statement of virginity and also reminds her of the commitment she made to “remain pure” until marriage. These rings are also worn by guys, [...]

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The Age of Neuroelectronics

January 15, 2012

Every so often, when some new scientific paper is published or new experiment revealed, the press pronounces the creation of the first bionic man — part human, part machine. Science fiction, they say, has become scientific reality; the age of cyborgs is finally here. Many of these stories are gross exaggerations. But something more is [...]

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Brain Computer Interface Moves into the Mainstream

December 28, 2011

In the year and a half since I posted Control Your Computer With Your Brainwaves — TED Conference Video which highlighted a presentation at the Ted Conference by Tan Lee, from the EEG biofeedback device developer Emotive Systems the development of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) has accelerated at an amazing rate. In fact the acronym [...]

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Lucid Dreaming

December 25, 2011

A lucid dream is a dream in which you know you are dreaming. Typically this happens when the dreamer experiences something strange, and when they stop to question their reality, they realize they are in a dream. Lucid dreams happen naturally on occasion, although some people may have them naturally more often than others. The [...]

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Lucid Dreaming Improve Physical Skills

December 25, 2011

Lucid dreaming can improve their performance in real life, according to Yale researcher Peter Morgan. In lucid dreaming, the dreamer is self-aware and is in control of the substance of the dream. Researchers from Yale University found that lucid dreamers perform better in a gambling task, designed to test a part of the brain important [...]

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