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Scientists Overclock People's Brains
arshadk writes with this excerpt from the BBC about researchers at Oxford University who found that inducing a small current in a subject's parietal lobe boosted their capacity for numerical learning:
"The current could not be felt, and had no measurable effect on other brain functions. As it was turned on, the volunteers tried to learn a puzzle which involved substituting numbers for symbols. Those given the current from right to left across the parietal lobe did significantly better when given, compared to those who were given no electrical stimulation. The direction of the current was important — those given stimulation running in the opposite direction, left to right, did markedly worse at these puzzles than those given no current, with their ability matching that of an average six-year-old. The effects were not short-lived, either. When the volunteers whose performance improved was re-tested six months later, the benefits appear to have persisted. There was no wider effect on general maths ability in either group, just on the ability to complete the puzzles learned as the current was applied."
Did you just create a group of idiots? Is this legal?
It is probably not legal. The public school system hates the competition.
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Too bad coffee taste like cat piss,
May I ask how you know this? And how does cat piss differ from dog piss or other small animal piss?
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who didn't know that dropping a zero gave him 10% (something I considered until then to be fairly basic)
Dropping a zero from what? Off the end of 100%? Nobody talks that way. You might consider it "basic", but it is utterly arbitrary.
Did you consider that he thought you were going to drop a zero score from his results? (As in, "I drop the lowest homework score"). It is most definitely not true that dropping a zero score yields 10%, or a 10% improvement. Did you consider that your poor expression lead to this student's confusion? Probably not.
After all, I am strangely colored.