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Feed Science Daily: Synaesthesia: Common Letters And Numbers Are Brighter, Study Suggests (sciencedaily.com)

A psychological phenomenon known as "grapheme-color synaesthesia" describes individuals who experience vivid colors whenever they see, hear, or think of ordinary letters and digits. New research adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that a particular commonality exists across synaesthetes, who otherwise have very distinctive experiences.

Feed Science Daily: Smoking Can Harm The Long-term Effects Of Some Oral Plastic Surgery Procedures (sciencedaily.com)

Smokers had less desirable long term results following periodontal plastic surgery than nonsmokers. The study followed 10 smokers and 10 non-smokers for two years to evaluate the effects of cigarette smoke on the long term outcomes of a treatment to help soft tissue reattach to the root surface of the teeth. After two years, residual gum recession around the area which received the surgery was greater in smokers as compared to non-smokers.

Comment what they proved (Score 1) 233

If you read the article carefully you will note that the experiment proved that the effects of the disorder could be reversed if a treatment is found. Whereas everyone expected them to be permanent.

They did not however find a cure for rett syndrome, they found a cure for a fake rett syndrome they created in a cleverly reversible way. They inserted blocking genes in front of the gene responsible for the disorder and then used a treatment which could actually remove the block in the grown mice that grew from those genes, they did nothing to the actual gene. If the genes they started with had been mutated to begin with then the treatment wouldn't have cured them.

The article makes a big deal about it sort of being a cure, at least for the mice involved, but whats really interesting here is the fact that damage from genetic neurological disorders might not be irreversible if treatments can be found.

so yeah one day you will all stop reading the internet compulsively and gaming 24/7 and just sit calmly in front of the television like normal people.
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Journal Journal: shutup shutup shutup!! 3

Shutup, i know all about your disorder/fear/disease/phobia and i don't care if you really ARE suffering from it. Do you think people didn't have these things five hundred yeas ago? They did, and you know how they delt with them? They just fucking did and its amazing how they seem to have survived just fine. Personally i feel this points to one cause of todays pshycological pandemic, hyper-awareness. That is, the over-sampling of a feed-back driven system to the point where the feed-back mechanis
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Journal Journal: Is Johnny Dumb?

for those of you who don't understand anything, it may seem surprising that young johnny is having trouble at school. disintrest in academic achivement is causing his grades to slip. why dosent he posess the strategies that would make him a productive office monkey? because of you, thats why. while you're at work and, you know, just trying to survive and be happy, you may notice that one of the many things you're trying to deal with is having kids. they're so cute and they get you such respect f
The Almighty Buck

Journal Journal: money is

Money is a game.
You are betting that,
whatever it is you create,
money will increase in value more.

The people who convinced you of this
are the ones giving you the money
and taking away what you've made.

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