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MIT Shows How to Shut Down Brain With Light
An anonymous reader writes "The MIT home-page story today is about a way to use light to shut down brain activity. "Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease."
There are easier ways to shut down brain activity. 4chan comes to mind.
...that this is actually a plan to invent the Neuralizer from Men in Black?
... a scientific reason why we /.ers should not leave the darkness of our parents' basements and our computer monitors, and continue to avoid the dreaded realm known as "outside".
The MIT home-page story today is about a way to use light to shut down brain activity.
Well, I guess that's cheaper than alcohol.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Expect to see a lot of yellow lights at party rallies from now on...
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Finally I can get a pair of tinfoil shades to go with my hat.
Another sexist topic about blonde girls !
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
You ain't from round here, are you boy?
Could this explain why when a traffic light turns yellow, nobody seems to notice it?