<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Nerdshit</title>
	<link>http://www.nerdshit.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:25:30 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A contact lens with simple built-in electronics is already within reach; in fact, my students and I are already producing such devices in small numbers in my laboratory at the University of Washington, in Seattle. These lenses don’t give us the vision of an eagle or the benefit of running subtitles on our surroundings yet. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/03/16/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.
	For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/03/12/french-bread-spiked-with-lsd-in-cia-experiment/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Trailer for &#8220;Dirty Pictures,&#8221; a documentary about Sasha Shulgin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	


 ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/03/09/trailer-for-dirty-pictures-a-documentary-about-sasha-shulgin/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Science of Love: Romance and Patterns of Attraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Neurochemistry has never been so romantic.
	
	Slides are not visible, but still a fascinating lecture with 27 minutes of Q&#38;A. A Valentine’s fave, see also this Stonybrook lecture, another 2006 lecture, an interview, and a New York Times interview.
	]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/19/science-of-love-romance-and-patterns-of-attraction/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The waterfall illusion can be transferred between vision and touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	If you look at a waterfall for about 30 seconds, and then shift your gaze to a nearby stationary object, such as a rock or a tree, that object will seem to drift slowly upwards. This well known optical illusion demonstrates a phenomenon called the motion after-effect, which is thought to occur as a result [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-waterfall-illusion-can-be-transferred-between-vision-and-touch/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Don&#8217;t just cook your meals&#8211;manufacture them!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	MIT designer and researcher Marcelo Coelho, whose work focuses on &#8220;the intersection of human-computer interaction, materials science and design,&#8221; is working on something akin to RP for food. Behold his Digital Gastronomy Machines, which are like meal-manufacturing devices.
	
The Digital Fabricator is a personal, three-dimensional printer for food, which works by storing, precisely mixing, depositing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/dont-just-cook-your-meals-manufacture-them/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Spiritual Brain: Selective Cortical Lesions Modulate Human Self-Transcendence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The predisposition of human beings toward spiritual feeling, thinking, and behaviors is measured by a supposedly stable personality trait called self-transcendence. Although a few neuroimaging studies suggest that neural activation of a large fronto-parieto-temporal network may underpin a variety of spiritual experiences, information on the causative link between such a network and spirituality is lacking. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-spiritual-brain-selective-cortical-lesions-modulate-human-self-transcendence/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Cutaneous Rabbit Illusion Hops Out Of The Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	IF a rapid series of taps are applied first to your wrist and then to your elbow, you will experience a perceptual illusion, in which phantom sensations are felt along the skin connecting the two points that were actually touched. This feels as if a tiny rabbit is hopping along your skin from the wrist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/02/17/the-cutaneous-rabbit-illusion-hops-out-of-the-body/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Native language shapes the melody of a newborn baby&#8217;s cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Telling the difference between a German and French speaker isn&#8217;t difficult. But you may be more surprised to know that you could have a good stab at distinguishing between German and French babies based on their cries. The bawls of French newborns tend to have a rising melody, with higher frequencies becoming more prominent as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/11/12/native-language-shapes-the-melody-of-a-newborn-babys-cry/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Arch Cupcake &#8211; El Gato Attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	

 ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/10/28/the-arch-cupcake-el-gato-attacks/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Indoor Autonomous Helicopter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	        
	TechTV @ MIT


 ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/10/21/indoor-autonomous-helicopter/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>&#8216;Grow your own body parts&#8217; could herald in the age of the active centenarian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	British scientists are working on a system which should allow the elderly to buy body parts &#8220;off the shelf&#8221; and even regenerate their own damaged joints and hearts. As well as new harder wearing artificial hip and knee joints, their ultimate ambition is to fix up the body with customised replacement parts grown to order. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/10/20/grow-your-own-body-parts-could-herald-in-the-age-of-the-active-centenarian/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>U.S. Support for Legalizing Marijuana Reaches New High</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	PRINCETON, NJ&#8212;Gallup&#8217;s October Crime poll finds 44% of Americans in favor of making marijuana legal and 54% opposed. U.S. public support for legalizing marijuana was fixed in the 25% range from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but acceptance jumped to 31% in 2000 and has continued to grow throughout this decade.
	
	Public opinion is virtually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/10/20/u-s-support-for-legalizing-marijuana-reaches-new-high/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ima Nerd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	

 ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/09/12/ima-nerd/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Bone find suggests humans on Treasure Coast 13,000 years ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VERO BEACH &#8211; Treasure Coast amateur fossil collector James Kennedy appears to have made an unprecedented archaeological discovery that might help confirm a human presence here up to 13,000 years ago.    
    
A 15-inch-long prehistoric bone fragment found near Vero Beach contains a crude engraving of a mammoth or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/06/08/bone-find-suggests-humans-on-treasure-coast-13000-years-ago/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
