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Ancient Viruses Altered Human Brains
giulioprisco writes: A new study from Lund University in Sweden (abstract) indicates inherited viruses that are millions of years old play an important role in building up the complex networks that characterize the human brain. The Lund study shows that retroviruses seem to play a central role in the basic functions of the brain — over the course of evolution, the viruses took an increasingly firm hold on the steering wheel in our cellular machinery. In particular, the retroviruses seem to play an important role in the regulation of which genes are to be expressed, and when."
Based on our collective voting patterns, YES.
Table-ized A.I.
This poster is likely a specimen having a recently-infected brain that may be ideal for studying this phenomenon in its early stages.
Table-ized A.I.
Put on your best Hugo Weaving voice and imagine Elrond saying "Hobbits ... are a disease; and we are the cure."
John
I can't removatize Bushificationisms from my head brain. Should I visitify a therapisterizer?
A thrud xposyer will helpificate this problemification....
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
Good luck with that. The raw milk they drink gives them super strength and their excellent homepathy will repair any damage.
Pfft, never let facts get in the way of a good monologue.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
"I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mister Baggins."
"My name... is BILBO."
Koans and fables for the software engineer
You would think that homeopaths would heartily endorse vaccines, as they seem to be one of the few treatments that successfully use small dose solutions of material that causes similar symptoms to treat (prevent) the actual disease.