Life in the city is fast and exciting, but a new research shows that our brains are not necessarily designed to handle this constant state of stimuli:
“...scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting, this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.”
www.boston.com/bostonglob...your_brain/

Holy crap, what to do? Well, a study at the University of Michigan found memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after people spent an hour interacting with nature. Go out to the parks!
www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/re.../story.php

In a world first, a research group from Kyoto Prefecture has succeeded in processing and displaying optically received images directly from the human brain. The word "neuron" is made of actual images of observed English letters.

One step closer to the Matrix...

www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/featur...Y01306.htm