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- Diversions for week of 07-13-2006
- Studies showing sex bias are ignored, says transsexual professor
- Refugee All Stars’ reggae-folk goombay players fled anarchy, were…
- The fight against TB
… ‘ Neural Sensing Technology Highlighted in Second Study…
Free with registration - Business Wire - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jul 13, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Business Wire FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Stanford Research Team Reports Findings that Support Feasibility of Brain Computer Interface Technology to Assist Those with Neurological Diseases or Injuries Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: CYKN; “Cyberkinetics”) announced today that preclinical results reported by a team of researchers from Stanford University’s Schools of Engineering and Medicine were published in the July 13, 2006, issue of the journal Nature. Scientific findings from the first participant in the Company’s ongoing pilot clinical trials of the BrainGate Neural Interface System (BrainGate) were featured on the cover of the same issue. The Stanford team used Cyberkinetics’ research products line of neural interface technology to demonstrate the ability to obtain accurate, high-speed neural recordings that can immediately be translated into a prediction of intended movement. This research underscores the feasibility for using neural signals as the basis for brain-computer interfaces (BCI) that could be developed to enable those with nervous system injuries or diseases to operate external devices that require fast, accurate selections, such as.
Diversions for week of 07-13-2006
courierpress.com - Jul 13, 2006
Saturday: Cool and Crawly Critters Fest, all day, Nature Station ($3 per person); Herbal Medicine, 10 a. to noon and 1 to 4 p.
Studies showing sex bias are ignored, says transsexual professor
Telegraph.co.uk - Jul 13, 2006
Prof Ben Barres, 51, knows only too well how the male-dominated scientific establishment treats women compared with men. Nine years ago he was called Barbara. Today, he draws on his own experience as “a female-to-male transgendered person” to write a remarkable commentary in the journal Nature. Lawrence Summers, a former Harvard University president, caused a furore when he raised the possibility that the dearth of women in the upper levels of science is rooted in biology, whether due to a lack of drive or a fundamental difference in the wiring of their brains. Marshalling scientific evidence as well as drawing from personal experience, Prof Barres maintains that, contrary to this idea, the lack of women in the upper reaches of research has more to do with bias than aptitude, adding that discrimination is present in Britain as well as the United States. Article continues advertisement… Was he driven to change sex to succeed? “The answer is no,” Prof Barres says. “I had made it all the way through to tenure before changing sex, so there would not have been any career advantage to changing sex at that point. ”Also, as you may know, transsexuals are highly discriminated against, and alas becoming a transsexual is simply an opportunity to face even more discrimination. ”I have been lucky in this regard that my colleagues at Stanford have been absolutely terrific.
Refugee All Stars’ reggae-folk goombay players fled anarchy, were…
San Francisco Chronicle - Jul 13, 2006
“Who was in power spun around and there were mercenaries that fought on both sides,” White said. “Removing the person running the country wasn’t what it was about. ” One of the film’s stars is an 18-year-old rapper called Black Nature (Alhaji Jeffrey Kamara), orphaned before his teens by the war, a thoughtful and sensitive young man who has returned to school in Sierra Leone and would like to attend college in the United States. He is the film’s great success story and represents the hope for a new generation in his homeland, where the band’s record “Soda Soap” became a major hit. On the other hand, singer Mohammed Bangura represents the irreparable damage done to his country. Rebel soldiers not only cut off his hand with a cutlass, they forced him at gunpoint to beat his child to death. The clearly traumatized man could not face returning to Sierra Leone with his bandmates and remains a lost soul living in refugee camps… “We just handled it. When we did the album, we were able to get some money and take care of ourselves, get enough to eat, take care of our families. There are many things people need — medicine, electricity, bathrooms — those are the only problems I’m experiencing. But I’m here right now. You can go everywhere in this country and people really appreciate the music. Refugee All Stars: The band appears 8 p.
The fight against TB
Cape Argus - Cape Argus (subscription) - Jul 13, 2006
The infectious nature of the disease is well known. It is for this reason that tuberculosis has long been known as an
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