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From: Forbes.com

10 Things You Only Hear On Mardi Gras

1. Does this wig make me look less Chinese?
2. Q: Did someone with a giant alligator head just walk in here?
   A: I’m not sure.
3. I like it how the whole family is doing it. Even the kid is cross-dressing.
4. Are you going to use all those boas?
5. I just feel like we should bring some rope, or something.
6. This sandwich goes really well with vodka.
7. Why are you drinking red bull? Are you trying to stay up all day?
8. I’m still hungry. That bloody mary was pretty thin.
9. I think those thrones are for his dogs.
10. The wine comes out of the udders.
11. I’m really glad we brought that rope.

Since I haven’t yet, I really should. And so should you.

I … I don’t even know how to explain this. Darth Vader vs. Hitler? Napoleon Bonaparte vs. Napoleon Dynamite?

Uh, and this.

Horrible Outcome.

“Near-sighted humans develop the brain-reading tech future Robot Overlords will use to find and eradicate last remnants of our species”

“Leading sex researchers predict knowing what people think during sex likely to end sex altogether, eradicating species.”

“New tech dooms ‘High five up high, down low, too slow’ trick to extinction, world’s Uncles out of ideas.”

Or, as the stiff-upper-lipped BBC editor went with, “Science decodes ‘internal voices’.” Whatever, Beeb.

Science decodes ‘internal voices’

By Jason Palmer, Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients’ brains.

Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.

Read more at the BBC »