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...from all our sense organs (e.g., eyes, ears, skin), the nanobots can suppress all the inputs coming from the real senses and replace them with the signals that would be appropriate for a virtual environment. By 2030, "going to a website" will mean entering a virtual-reality environment. The implant will generate the streams of sensory input that would otherwise come from our real senses, thus creating an all-encompassing virtual environment that will respond to the behavior of our own virtual body (and those of others) in that environment...
...have spent most of their professional lives believing that even if the adult brain had stem cells, they'd never yield new neurons. Now the scientists have at least two options to consider. They can train stem cells to produce nerve tissue in a petri dish and then implant the new tissue in an ailing brain. Or, as Fred Gage at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., suggests, they can tweak the brain's stem cells to start churning out new neurons. If you could do that, Gage says, "it would take away the controversy over embryonic research...
...error, the nerds reckon they have a recipe for a creature that would closely resemble a small, running dinosaur like Struthiomimus ("the ostrich mimic"). The rest is as easy as Dolly the sheep: call up a company that can synthesize the genome, stick it into an enucleated ostrich ovum, implant the same in an ostrich and sit back to watch...
...problems with memory at all. They are really problems with your attention." There are three basic steps in memory: registration, retention and retrieval. They occur sequentially; if new information isn't taken in (registered), it can't be stored. Focusing on incoming material, whether heard, seen or read, helps implant it in memory. Psychologist Cynthia Green advises students in her memory classes at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center that "often what we think we forgot we really didn't 'get' in the beginning...
...teen pregnancy rates have fallen significantly each year in the 1990s; in 1996 there were fewer teen pregnancies than at any time in two decades. Analysts at HHS attribute this decline to several factors, including decreased sexual activity, increases in condom use and the adoption of new (injectable or implant) contraceptive devices. In other words, the good news about teen pregnancy is traceable to a combination of abstinence and contraceptive education, or an inclusive curriculum. Not coincidentally, the vast majority of Americans favor inclusive sex education; according to HHS, more than 80 percent of Americans over 30 and 90 percent...