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The iBrain is part of a new generation of portable neural devices and algorithms intended to monitor and diagnose conditions like sleep apnea, depression and autism... Help people to communicate by merely thinking...researching signals that look for intent

being exposed to too much complaining can actually make you dumb.

Do museums have a role in dying language preservation?  Can we use technology to do so?  What are the dying languages in your community?

Noise filtered through generations of listeners eventually becomes melodic, offering insights into how our tastes evolved.

advance of voice authentication systems means protecting privacy of your voice will be impotant

the far future?

"megadroughts likely to occur"

Despite progress toward gender equality, there remain differences between male and female.

What's needed...is a lot more public debate about the risks of inaction. "Risk is something we all understand in our daily lives...and if people were to think more about the risk of inaction, we think they would be more inclined to take action." How can museums help move the conversation forward?

young peopke in a remote village in northern Australia speak neither a dialect nor the mixture of languages called a creole, but a new language with unique grammatical rules.

Bi-model sleep...interesting concept.

I wonder what applications this could have in a museum environment.....

There ought to be a way that this result could be used in museum marketing: come visit us...you won't have to be alone with yourself and we're way better than self-administered electric shocks!