The patient's head would be sawed open under local anesthetic. Fully conscious, the patient would be shown flashcards with words or pictures while the electrodes recorded which regions responded to the stimuli. ... Sometimes, a picture of a particular celebrity would cause a single neuron to become especially active. Similar observations led scientists in a later study to posit the existence in one patient of a "Halle Berry neuron."
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:39 (nine years ago) link
i was going to complain about franzen's garbage story in this week's issue but i'll just point to this instead:
http://grist.org/living/jonathan-franzen-is-confused-about-climate-change-but-then-lots-of-people-are/
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
as David Roberts says, "I can’t imagine The New Yorker publishing it under any other byline."
seriously, one glance at it by elizabeth kolbert would have kept it from publication
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
i'm two pages into the Franzen story, unsure if i wanna proceed
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 April 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
ABANDON SHIPABANDON SHIP
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
The May 4, 2015 issue of the New Yorker is available. Download now to read Ryan Lizza's piece on Elizabeth Warren's campaign.
assuming that was supposed to be champagne and was a massive typo
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
I would drink any champagne Warren made imo.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_w0IannuVE
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 April 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
Adam Gopnik's Trollope piece is lovely and overdue.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 April 2015 02:15 (eight years ago) link
quality issue this week
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 13 May 2015 02:24 (eight years ago) link
i can't stop looking at that portrait of marc andreessen
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/150518_r26512-865.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEzv5O7WoAEeKNK.jpg
hope this helps
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
much better, thanks
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link
i know exactly what you mean
i can't make it through the first paragraph because i keep going back to the picture
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/Untitled_zpshn2fbyal.jpghttp://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg622/bizarrogazzara/Blart_zpsa7rr1oht.jpg
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:03 (eight years ago) link
just the sharpest head ever
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:23 (eight years ago) link
pointy-head
― drash, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
quote from his wife is just horrifying -(“I find it incredibly sexy to see the encasement of a cerebrum,” she explained.)
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
skinne growing vpon the head of a man
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
https://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/twitteregg.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
his head is truly disturbingly egg-shaped
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 9:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ha yeah all the stuff about his home life was hilarious.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KMyWMlm.png
― Plasmon, Friday, 15 May 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
hahaha
― k3vin k., Friday, 15 May 2015 02:52 (eight years ago) link
are we having fun yet
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 May 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
https://31.media.tumblr.com/533777be0a17ec310eae5a9761e338fb/tumblr_nodhiplk9N1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― kobold gin gimlet from a goblet with a dragon head on it (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 May 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
mesmerising, a+
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 15 May 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
When he agrees to fund someone's start-up, I wonder if the money just hatches right out of his head.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 15 May 2015 12:59 (eight years ago) link
omg pulsing cerebrum (fans self)
― drash, Friday, 15 May 2015 13:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexS5hBB1C0
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 15 May 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
disrupt to differentiate by becoming a dream-execution machine
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
The personal memoir about growing up and surfing in Hawaii by William Finnegan is really good.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
this one: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/off-diamond-head-finnegan
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/voice-contestant-new-yorker-isis-797957
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link
agree re the surfing piece im usually not that into personal history but that one was extremely good
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 May 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
The Ashbery piece is one of the sharper reviews he's gotten of late.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 May 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
A friend and neighbor's book got reviewed! Mixed, but hey.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/frenemies-books-mallon
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 May 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
just devastating: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/kalief-browder-1993-2015
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 8 June 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
physician administered suicide in the eerie secular flemish utopia http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/22/the-death-treatment
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 04:16 (eight years ago) link
I don't care to critically examine my gut reaction that euthanasia is an abhorrent way to "treat" depression
― jennifer islam (silby), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link
It won't make you do that. But it will make you indignant.
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 07:50 (eight years ago) link
its a pretty fascinating/disturbing piece
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
Very disturbing.
― Plasmon, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/A3rhYio.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 26 June 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
ugh
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 26 June 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/totallyslutsky/status/614109044777709568
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 26 June 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
Seriously half the time Borowitz's articles are showing up in my Facebook feed being shared as legit news.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 26 June 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, June 26, 2015 2:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 June 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
the lawrence wright piece about hostage families is obv very good
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 June 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
wait how did you already read this
is this what the media is like
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 29 June 2015 05:34 (eight years ago) link