Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:00:00 PST Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101105/11312511745/dailydirt-where-brain.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101105/11312511745/dailydirt-where-brain.shtml

The Brain Activity Map project could cost billions of dollars, and lots of people are looking back at the Human Genome Project as an example for how government funded science can work. Assigning accurate economic benefits from scientific projects can be debated, but funding science is usually a good investment... [url]

Data from 182 Vietnam vets with brain injuries have helped to map intelligence in the brain. A significant amount of brain mapping has come from studying injured or abnormal brains, but hopefully, newer imaging techniques will allow researchers to look at normally-functioning brains to better understand how people actually think. [url]

There are a bunch of TED talks about the brain. The human brain is incredibly complex, so there's a lot that can be said about it, but there's even more that we don't know yet. [url]

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This TEDtalk points out how to identify bad medical science through publication bias. If you flip a coin a hundred times and ignore half of the times it comes up tails, then maybe you're not doing something right. [url]

Buying cocaine without a prescription was once commonplace -- to cure all sorts of maladies, like "flatulence, colic, hysteria, hypochondria, back pain, muscle aches"... Whenever there's fun, there's always coca-cola..? [url]

Neuroscience could point to more effective treatments for various addictions and improve the success rate for rehab clinics. They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no..." [url]

To find more interesting stuff on health-related topics, check out what's currently in the StumbleUpon archives. [url]  

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