"One of the main flaws of current human, brain-controlled prosthetics is that patients cannot sense the texture of what they touch, Nicolelis said. His goal is to give quadriplegics not only the ability to move their limbs again, but also to sense the texture of objects placed in their hands or experience the nuances of the terrain under their feet."
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'I love humanity,' he said, 'but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In my dreams,' he said, 'I have often come to making enthusiastic schemes for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually have faced crucifixion if it had been suddenly necessary; and yet I am incapable of living...
...in the same room with anyone for two days together, as I know by experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.' - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I do not like faceless, nameless love, out of specific location at a specific point on time line with only one direction. Dostoevsky is a great author, like few others, worldwide, from the same time. :-) Recently, scientists concluded that such humans are yet impossible today.
- Slavomira
"Theories about when the last Neanderthals walked the Earth may have to be revised, according to a study that suggests they became extinct in their last refuge in Spain much earlier than previously thought. Previous dating of bone fossils found at Neanderthal sites in the region put the youngest at about 35,000 years. But researchers from Australia and Europe re-examined the bones using an improved method to filter out contamination and concluded that the remains are about 50,000 years old. If true, the study, casts doubt on the idea that modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed—and possibly even interbred—for millennia, because humans aren't believed to have settled in the region until 42,000 years ago."
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What about the DNA analysis they've been doing of people suggesting that 10% of their genes seem to be Neanderthal DNA?
- Spidra Webster
They've yet to test bones from the 9 other known Neanderthal sites, and there is some evidence indicating a modern human presence in Europe before 40,000 years ago, so there is still hope. :)
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They can still have co-existed in the Middle East and Central Asia earlier than this, right?
- Eivind
Black Krim is my favorite variety (that I've tried so far). If you live in the kind of warm sunny climate where they grow best, they're hard to beat.
- Spidra Webster
I agree with Spidra, though Black from Tula is my favorite black tomato. This plant is an easygoing tomato plant and they are so yummy.
- Anika
"Researchers exploit the strange properties of a liquid metamaterial to watch Minkowski spacetimes leap in out and of existence"
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