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| Champ proposes brain mapping project - BBC |
| 2013-04-03 |
| President Barack Obama has unveiled a new initiative to map the brain and unlock the secrets of spoon bending once and for all. Speaking at the White House, he actually lives there between Air Force One engine changes, he announced an initial $100m investment to shed light on how the brain works and provide insight into diseases such as Alzheimer's, free market capitalism, representative government, and epilepsy. President Obama said initiatives like the Human Genome Project had transformed genetics; now he wants to do the same with the brain. The project will be carried out by both public and private-sector scientists. Blue State grant money, am I the only one who can smell it ? The project is called Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies - or BRAIN. If I objected to project BRAIN, would that make me a NO-BRAINER ? Mr Obama said: There is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked, and the BRAIN initiative will change that by giving scientists the tools [the codeword tools = $$$$] they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action and better understand how we think and learn and remember. And that knowledge will be Most of us already know how he and his administration thinks, perhaps we could just postpone the project and save an arse load of money. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Great idea. Then can we go to Mars? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2013-04-03 18:45 |
| #7 He also joked about being promoted to scientist-in-chief. What a BRAIN. |
| Posted by: KBK 2013-04-03 15:21 |
| #6 Gee, too bad there's this sequester-thingie going on... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-04-03 11:37 |
| #5 Lovely idea, no douobt scientifically valuable. From which other project does our Smartest President in the Room plan to persuade the House Republicans to transfer the funding? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-03 11:08 |
| #4 See if Joey Choo-Choo has a brain |
| Posted by: Beavis 2013-04-03 10:07 |
| #3 It is indeed an interesting idea, and one that has been going around at NIH for a while. The payoff could be significant -- perhaps not as big as the Human Genome Project but plenty big. I don't trust Champ to ensure that NIH runs it as they did the HGP -- that project worked well. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-04-03 08:56 |
| #2 Abby Normal? |
| Posted by: gorb 2013-04-03 08:28 |
| #1 I suspect this has to do wid the surgical scar on his head. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-03 02:11 |