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Can the Nervous System Be Hacked? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • But communication between nerves and the immune system was considered impossible, according to the scientific consensus in 1998.
  • It would have been “inconceivable,” he added, to propose that nerves were directly interacting with immune cells.
  • electrical pulses to the rat’s exposed vagus nerve. He stitched the cut closed and gave the rat a bacterial toxin known to promote the production of tumor necrosis factor, or T.N.F., a protein that triggers inflammation in animals, including humans.
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    • normonique
      normonique on 29 Jun 14
       
      This small passage answer my question of 'if the nervous system could be directly wired to technology' 
  • the nervous system was like a computer terminal through which you could deliver commands to stop a problem,
    • normonique
      normonique on 29 Jun 14
       
      This is a refreshing approach to cures from medicine which has a tedious list of side affects with no promise of correcting the initial problem. 
  • Inflammatory afflictions like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease are currently treated with drugs — painkillers, steroids and what are known as biologics, or genetically engineered proteins. But such medicines, Tracey pointed out, are often expensive, hard to administer, variable in their efficacy and sometimes accompanied by lethal side effects.
  • All the information is coming and going as electrical signals
  • His work seemed to indicate that electricity delivered to the vagus nerve in just the right intensity and at precise intervals could reproduce a drug’s therapeutic — in this case, anti-inflammatory — reaction. His subsequent research would also show that it could do so more effectively and with minimal health risks.
  • bioelectronics is straightforward: Get the nervous system to tell the body to heal itself.
  • normonique on 29 Jun 14
     
    This post is incredible, it's exciting to understand how technology can tell the brain to heal itself. 
Kathleen Hancock

Information, Community, and Action: How Nonprofit Organizations Use Social Media* - Lov... - 0 views

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  • Kathleen Hancock on 18 Jul 14
     
    Nonprofit organizations and social media
perezmv

How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by perezmv on 18 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Pandora’s 48 million users tune in an average 11.6 hours a month. That could increase as Pandora strikes deals with the makers of cars, televisions and stereos
  • At the end of 2009, Pandora reported its first profitable quarter and $50 million in annual revenue — mostly from ads and the rest from subscriptions and payments from iTunes and Amazon.com when people buy music.
  • Its library now has 700,000 songs, each categorized by an employee based on 400 musical attributes, like whether the voice is breathy, like Charlotte Gainsbourg, or gravelly like Tom Waits.
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  • Some music lovers dislike Pandora’s approach to choosing music based on its characteristics rather than cultural associations.
  • “It’s not just that this has an 80-beat-a-minute guitar riff,” he said. “It’s that this band toured with Eddie Vedder.”
  • For Pandora and its listeners, it was a revelation. Internet radio was not just for the computer. People could listen to their phone on the treadmill or plug it into their car or living room speakers.
  • In January, Pandora announced a deal with Ford to include Pandora in its voice-activated Sync system, so drivers will be able to say, “Launch my Lady Gaga station”
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