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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My fault, I had guests this weekend and got a little behind on the moderator duties. When stuff comes in on 1 April, we know to beware, but it was delayed a day because of me, so this came thru this morning, apologies. spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Christian Vanderwall <<a href="mailto:cvanderwall14@gmail.com">cvanderwall14@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Very cool article about transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and its possible applications and moral consequences written by Sally Adee, a woman who has actually tried it.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"they hook you up to what's essentially a 9-volt battery and let the current flow through your brain. After a few years of lab testing, they've found that tDCS can more than double the rate at which people learn a wide range of tasks, such as object recognition, math skills, and marksmanship."</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/226196/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think/1" target="_blank">http://theweek.com/article/index/226196/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think/1</a><span class=hoenzb><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>-- Christian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>