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Enough of anything can permanently switch off the brain. I really wish scientific reporters would at least attempt to use meaningful language in their headline
by omginternets 6y ago
Enough of anything can permanently switch off the brain.
I really wish scientific reporters would at least attempt to use meaningful language in their headlines.
- kylebyproxy 6y ago> But within two minutes of administering the drug, the brain activity of five of these six sheep stopped completely, one of them for several minutes - a phenomenon that has never been seen before. ... > “A few minutes later their brains were functioning normally again - it was as though they had just been switched off and on.” Headline seems spot-on to me. What exactly is your gripe?
- fortran77 6y agoI think he's had too much ketamine.
- loceng 6y agoWe also currently have a poor to non-existent understanding of the mechanisms for how consciousness attaches itself to the body-mind.
- 6510 6y agoI think I had this reading HN one time.