Didn't mean to imply that you didn't know how to write. What I meant to say is because you are focused on Neuroscience, you don't have the skills that someone who focused on a major or PhD in English would have. That doesn't mean that you don't have the capability to learn English to that level, but it means you…

Well, I believe that we choose what we wish to learn, and barring injury or illness we are all equally capable of doing so. For the most part, that is why people don't learn at the same rate and with the same levels of success. But its one thing to choose, and another to be pushed into a choice by pressure from…

I believe that unless there is some form of physical neurological damage present, EVERYONE can learn anything they CHOOSE to learn. We learn every single moment we are alive and conscious in some form or another. We don't stop learning even when we are asleep. And it only takes a bit of focus to achieve amazing…

Techniques similar to this are already used for brainwashing, hypnosis, and other forms of conditioning. What this research does is show a new method of direct input AND show its effectiveness. This, in a way, makes it less likely to be used because there will be scientific and technological indicators that will…

I don't like people trying to bomb the future back into the stone-age.

The grey goo scenerio is pretty difficult to achieve. In order for self-assembly to work you usually need more energy input and a different combination of surface materials than is generally available naturally in the environment. You'd need a high-energy primordial earth. Then you might be able to create a…

I look Newt's comments and laugh. Cyber-Security? In the hands of a private think-tank? What is to prevent such a think tank of taking severe advantage of their position? Of manipulating and controlling the flow of data to prevent or augment their own control and power? I don't trust the corporate environment. …

Our minds will continue to "evolve" as we continue to adapt to our circumstances. Evolution is, by and large, a slow, methodical process with the occasional brief but extremely rapid alterations due to mutation or extreme pressure. We must never forget that a new version of our species can come into being within a…

But then again, some people don't live in areas to avoid taxes - they live there because there's less people, more land, and more privacy. The property is cheaper specifically because its less populated. Is $75 unreasonable? Heck no. But think on this, is having an OPTION unreasonable? People should have the…

I read this elsewhere. I can understand if there were other fires where the people had paid the fee... but to sit there and watch a house burn when you could at least save a little bit of someone's life. It takes a coldness that defies all humanity and compassion.

I could care less about Fox - however, I applaud Steve Martin for cracking the whip. What really makes this whole thing news-worthy is that it demonstrates the STATE of our media networks. If that response from Fox is accurate, then that is the most twisted self-aggrandizing reply I've ever witnessed coming from a…

Many people can't imagine the possibility of such global change. Any one of the future disasters we face is potentially society-shattering. As for a technological/technocrat class... Well... its possible, but many of the people most capable of controlling such an evolution and technology are the very ones who are…

All that means is the people involved in the polling are the kind of people who take personal responsibility for their lives. It doesn't mean that they're optimistic or un-optimistic, it just means they're realistic.

Are ALL the neutrinos traveling FTL, or Just some? What is the composition of the magnetic and gravitational field between point A and point Z? Are there other factors that are measurable that may be contributing to this effect.

The earth's magnetosphere would pretty much protect us from the worst that the sun could eject out this far. It would knock everything electronic out, and maybe give people directly exposed a major dose of radiation, but it won't deep-fry the planet. If we were in Mercury's orbit we'd have a different story then. …

First things first, there are no "UFO"s once the object has been identified. One of the first thing any military organization does is identify a silhouette or signature of a craft and label it. The Navy does it with sonar with anything in the ocean that isn't biological. The Air Force does it with anything they…

I hope China can continue doing things like this. The reason: It inspires. Of course, exactly what it inspires is in the eye of the beholder. But, to be frankly honest, I'd feel slightly better if there were a billion Chinese on the Moon, Mars or all across the solar system. Every place a human sets foot that…

The space shuttle is not the end-all be all of spacecraft. The old Orion technologies (thermonuclear reaction engines) can get a significant percent of c given long acceleration and deceleration times as what would be in a 36 ly journey. And that assumes that c is an absolute barrier. Much the same was thought of…

Might be a nice rock, even if its not perfect, for future terraforming. Assuming there's not someone already there. :) The star is main sequence and being an orange dwarf gives it a much greater lifetime than good ole Sol. The expected main sequence life-time is 27 billion years (courtesy of Wolfram|Alpha)

Remember, boys and girls, if we don't know what it is and its in the sky or in NEO, it is an "Unidentified Flying Object". If the Air Force says there is no UFO for a particular event, its because they have an identity for the object. They're just choosing not to share. Still a UFO to us, whether its source is…