What the Internet is doing to our brains.
“I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.”
There’s no stage at this strip club. No pole. Not even a bar. And the music comes from a boom box.
Welcome to Club Thunderbolt, the strangest place in the city to get a lap dance. It’s located in the back room of an old house in an east side neighborhood of working class bungalows.
“You won’t need special glasses to spend the new $100 bills – even if they do boast 3-D technology. The new currency introduced Wednesday features a variety of new security measures, including a blue “3-D Security Ribbon” that features tiny Liberty Bells. The bells change to the number 100 when the bill is tilted, one of several changes that Treasury officials hope will frustrate counterfeiters. The 3-D strip is actually woven into the bill, rather than printed on the paper. The bill – due to debut on Feb. 10, 2011 – also features a color-changing inkwell and Liberty Bell to the right of Franklin’s portrait on the bill.”
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LARRY KING, HOST: We can’t leave without asking you, my producers say I must ask you. Sarah Palin, what do you think? Sarah Palin? I got to say her name because we have to say it every night.
Sarah Palin. What do you say?
SARAH SILVERMAN: Oh, about what? Her posing in “Playboy”? I think she should go for it.
KING: Agreed. Thank you, Sarah.
SILVERMAN: Thank you.
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Researcher Chris Harrison has developed a system called “Skinput,” which turns a person’s hand and forearm into a keyboard and screen. Check out a video of the prototype in action.
