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Poverty and Ignorance, a deadly mixture.

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Forget LSD: eyes are the new high. Of course, we’re not talking about consuming them, but rather staring intensely into a pair for a prolonged period of time. Apparently, this can make people enter into an altered state of consciousness.

This intriguing discovery was made by vision researcher Giovanni Caputo from the University of Urbino in Italy, but it isn’t his first staring contest study. A few years ago, the scientist recruited 50 volunteers and got them to gaze upon their reflections in a mirror for 10 minutes in a dimly lit room. For many of them, it took less than one minute to start experiencing something trippy.
Their faces began to warp and change, taking on the appearance of animals, monsters or even deceased family members; a phenomenon imaginatively named the “ strange-face illusion.” But it seems the bizarre effects are even more dramatic when the mirror is swapped for another person.

As described in Psychiatry Research , Caputo recruited 40 young adults and sorted them into pairs. Each pair then sat in chairs in a dimly lit room, positioned one meter (3.3 feet) apart. The illumination was set to a level that still allowed participants to pick up fine facial features, but color perception was diminished. Half of the pairs sat opposite one another, gazing at each other’s neutral expressions, while the others sat back-to-back, staring at the wall. To make sure any effects were not the result of expectation, participants weren’t informed of the nature of the study, but instead told it would involve a meditative experience.

After 10 minutes, participants then filled in questionnaires about their experiences in the room, which revealed some rather intriguing effects. According to the British Psychological Society , those in the group that faced one another described higher levels of attenuated color intensity than controls, with noises seeming louder than they should. Time seemed to slow down and they felt spaced out. Additionally, almost 90% of them said their partner’s face appeared deformed, 75% saw monstrous beings and 15% even saw traits of a relative’s face emerge on their partner.

The sensations reported, Caputo says, indicate symptoms of dissociation, a term used to describe a departure from one’s connection with reality. Interestingly, he found that these symptoms correlated with facial deformity, but not the appearance of strange faces. He hypothesizes that these hallucinations, so-called “strange-face apparitions,” could be a consequence of snapping back to “reality” after entering a dissociative state brought about by the lack of sensory stimulation. But at the moment, that’s all hand-waving and seems to contrast another possible explanation put forward by Caputo.
When we stare at a central point for a prolonged period, features in the periphery begin to gradually disappear, something known as Troxler fading. But if this were to explain what seems to be happening, then we would expect facial features to gradually vanish, rather than having strange things appear.

And as pointed out by Scientific American , if some visual information is missing, the brain deals with these gaps by filling them in based on expectations or experiences.

We clearly still have a lot to learn about these strange phenomena, and Caputo is the first to admit that his work is still in its infancy. It would be interesting to find out what brings about these strange hallucinations, since although dim lighting seems to be required, it cannot be the only factor as the same was not observed in the control group.

Source: Iflscience

What is it please, sleep dey catch me.

kenee24:
OK...gimme a call wen u r.08131874398

Ok sure thing.

searching4love:
NNAMDI KANU MUST BE STOPPED. I LISTENED TO RADIO Biafra TODAY AND WHAT THAT SON OF A BIITCH SPITS ON RADIO CAN MANIPULATE THE ENTIRE IGBOS AGAINST NIGERIA. WE MUST STOP KANU AND Biafra NOW


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KCEE IS JUST A VAGABOND WHO OUGHT TO BE WORKING AS A TRAFFIC OFFICER DUE TO HIS CHOICE OF WEIRD COLORS. HE IS A BASTARD

At 1st I wanted to insult you, call you names the usual Nairaland matter, but then I taught about it and I felt sorry and pity for you.

Sorry, take heart.

Demigods:
Yes.

I want to try it when I resubscribe. how is it? can you dual boot with it?

Nigerian institutions are always prioritising unnecessary things, if it comes to academics they're behind other nations but they ahead in religion and a skewed sense of morality.
Tufia!

Op, have you tried it?

They try, considering the fact that they're probably building this with their own money, projects like this are usually carried with financial aid from the university in more developed countries, but in Nigeria? you never start.

kenee24:
I still havent heard from u, regarding d lappy.

Sorry I forgot, I'm not ready for it.

Gamers party without games, I'm disappointed .

If it's a laptop forget it, you can't.

That's 3 minutes of my life I'm never getting back.

Lexusgs430:
6 hours for less than 3gb file? I was fully downloaded in under 30 minutes!!!

Yes we know you have a fast connection, now go and play with it and leave us with slow internet to empathize with the op.

Wetin concern you!

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Thousands of people die each year waiting for an organ transplant as there aren’t enough human organs available, so researchers are turning to an unlikely source: genetically modified (GM) pigs. And these pigs could apparently offer something human donation can’t – an almost unlimited supply of organs .

Researchers have announced that they were able to keep a pig heart alive in a baboon for 945 days. They were also able to shatter records with their kidney transplant between these species, which lasted for 136 days. The previous record was 90 days, though researchers suggest that survival for more than 30 days is unusual. Their findings, detailed in the journal Xenotransplantation, brings us one step closer to pig-to-human transplants. Researchers believe that young pigs are an ideal animal for transplants because their organs are the right size.

The research is being pioneered by scientists at Revivicor, which focuses on regenerative medicine as part of the biotechnology company United Therapeutics. The co-CEO Martine Rothblatt told MIT Technology Review that their goal is to create “an unlimited supply of transplantable organs” and eventually carry out the first successful pig-to-human lung transplant.
The history of cross-species organ transplantation highlights the difficulties of achieving this surgical feat.

During the 1960s, Keith Reemtsma transplanted chimpanzee kidneys into 13 human patients. While most of the transplants failed within four to eight weeks, one of Reemtsma’s patients survived for nine months and even returned to work as a school teacher. She eventually collapsed and died from what doctors’ think was an acute electrolyte disturbance . To learn from previous failures, researchers have to find a way to overcome the recipient’s powerful immune response and significantly reduce the risk of infection.

The study builds on previous research that removed a sugar molecule that played a significant role in hyperacute rejection . Researchers went on to genetically modify pigs, giving them human genes to make the organs more compatible and increase the success of an organ transplant. Researchers hope that by adding human genes, the organ will repress the immune response, so patients depend less on huge doses of immunosuppressant drugs . By next year, researchers hope to add eight genes to some of the pigs.

There’s still a great deal of progress to be made, and researchers have their eyes on a more ambitious goal: To successfully complete a pig-to-human lung transplant within the next few years. Lung transplants are a lot more difficult, but Rothblatt is eager to push through with the research.

Source: MIT Technology Review

I've installed it, will leave a review.

frankmoney:
gv me a link

http://www. konga.com/fifa-15-playstation-4-1182145

Why are you acting like you're entitled to a reply? Did you buy the device she's chatting on or pay for the data?
My dear if she isn't replying move on or keep trying but stop bitching she owes you nothing.

cao:
Taken today at the Red Bull Air Race World Championship at Ascot. Sorry for the quality.

cool!, you're living the life girl.

10k on Konga, you're welcome

bongolistik:
But some of them claim that that price is never the problem, that all they want is doped phones

That's just denial.

Agreed, but the reason Tecno and it's ilk are so popular down here is because they so cheap, they're mostly basic and cheap.

Stockholm syndrome.

sod09:
day suppose raise alarm since....

Well she don raise alarm now, so stop victim blaming.

sod09:
Ok Y are day just coming out now

And it's telling that that's all you have to say about this.

trux:
I have limbo on my PS4 i think is too dull for me liking

It's a lovely puzzle game but it's not for everyone.

Sabrwahaqqo:
LoL. Sad cos she's American?

No sad because she was raped you idiot.

Teempakguy:
nope . . . you didn't get this right . . . consider the hololens. It has a visor. This visor is made of a display screen. Right? And you're saying LG basically discovered a flexible screen. Then simply replace the current screen on the device with a flexible one. That way, the device can also function as a cap . . . and then pulled down to make the visor in which the CGI is displayed to produce augmented reality.

In short, this invention will power anything that uses a screen.

Okay, so, I understand you may mean that the technology is opaque. Fine. Then we can simply devise new methods to achieve transparent versions of this.

You're right, I didn't think of it that way.