Archive for the 'Mind Control' Category
Britain: Royal Society Report Discusses Development Neural Interface for Weapons Systems
February 7th, 2012…and much, much more. Via: Royal Society: Neural interfaces can be broadly separated into devices that input into neural systems and interfaces that record activity from brains to predict motor intentions. The most common method of establishing an interface is through the external recording of EEG signals although more invasive methods, such as implanting microelectrodes […]
How America Made Its Children Crazy
February 4th, 2012“It’s not some sci-fi dystopic concern that’s always 20 years out. They’re gunning for your children’s minds with this right now.” —Sorry iBooks, Paper Books Still Win on Specs Via: Asia Times: Learning how to learn is the point of education. We will forget the great majority of specific things we were taught: Euclidean proofs, […]
Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
February 1st, 2012Via: PLoS Biology: How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech sounds can be reconstructed from population neural activity. We found that slow and […]
The Age of Transitions
January 23rd, 2012Via: The Age of Transitions:
Principal Charged After Hypnotizing Students Who Committed Suicide
January 13th, 2012Via: CBS: North Port police have charged the town’s high school principal with two counts of second-degree criminal misdemeanors after students he hypnotized ended up committing suicide. Over six months, the North Port Police Department conducted around 70 interviews with students claiming to have been hypnotized by Dr. George Kenney and 100 adults either from […]
Polish Prosecutor Shoots Himself After News Conference
January 9th, 2012[???] Update: Comments from Przybyl Via: Reuters: Speaking to state news agency PAP from his hospital bed on Tuesday, Przybyl said he had wanted to protect the honour and the future of military prosecutors. He said he had faced many threats related to past investigations aimed at intimidating him, and was finally driven to attempt […]
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy — Martin Lindstrom
December 20th, 2011This looks like a good one. (As I link to it using my Amazon affiliate code. *chuckle*) Via: Amazon: From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy.
Learning High-Performance Tasks with No Conscious Effort
December 9th, 2011Via: Medical Express: New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It’s the kind of thing seen in Hollywood’s “Matrix” franchise. Experiments conducted at Boston University […]
Woman “Imprisoned” on Scientology Cruise Ship for 12 Years
December 1st, 2011Via: The Sideshow: For most people, an extended stay aboard a luxury cruise liner sounds like a dream vacation. But Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the Scientology cruise ship “Freewinds” for more than a decade. During her stay on the vessel, she alleges, she was forced into hard labor and […]
Sirhan Sirhan Lawyers: ‘Hypno Programming and Memory Implantation Techniques’
November 28th, 2011Via: CNN: Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of the 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, should be freed from prison or granted a new trial based on “formidable evidence” asserting his innocence and “horrendous violations” of his rights, defense attorneys said in federal court papers filed this week. In a U.S. District Court brief, […]
