10.25.2004

Today Space, Tomorrow the Brain

Memory Loss Prevention and Memory Preservation are amongst the Final Frontiers facing humanity, along with space. While Richard Branson has licensed the spaceship one technology to enable private space flight, others are working on the brain, understanding its structure, and understanding how to extend and preserve its function through software, fMRI, and pharmaceuticals.

Tracking and Monitoring (MemCheck), imaging (fMRI), nutritionals and pharmaceuticals, and even, Memory Storage will be utilized in combination to spot, analyze, and treat impairments; finally, storing away memories in a computer chip. Three of the Four are possible today, though we are just at the baby-steps of what will be a vast revolution, the Fourth - memory storage, has just been announced from a USC and Kentucky research team.

You can help make it all possible by taking our test, purchasing MemCheck, featuring MemCheck on your site or blog - and we will let you know how you can help.




LONDON, England -- William Shatner wants to boldly go where he's only pretended to go so far.

The "Star Trek" star is among more than 7,000 people who have told Richard Branson they would gladly pay him $210,000 (£115,000) for a trip aboard his planned spacecraft, the entrepreneur said Friday.

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro has signed up for a ride, and a Hollywood director who was not identified has booked an entire ship.

Trevor Beattie, chairman of the ad agency TBWA -- responsible for campaigns such as the "Hello Boys" Wonderbra campaign with Eva Herzigova -- offered to send a check as soon as the project was launched last month.

In all, more than $1.45 billion (£800 million) has been pledged -- years before the Virgin Galactic spaceship is even built, Branson said.

Branson, 54, is pouring $135 million (£74 million) into his latest commercial experiment, which promises to send the paying public 70 miles above the planet to experience six minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth.

Sunday Evening

Good Evening. This will be rather short. Some good news, we will be presenting a paper at the Neuroscience Society meeting in San Diego later today and will have some announcements related to this; the paper will cover the use of our secure, n-tier system for monitoring cognitive effects during clinical trials, where we help biotech companies determine efficacy of products, which is a pretty important function in the scheme of things. Here is a link to the topics of our research to date, in case you are interested.

107 people signed up today and most, of course, took tests. Thanks. We also will be announcing and explaining in more detail our 'affiliate' program this week, everything from refer a friend, to tools so people and groups concerned with patients and caregivers, health web sites, search engines, and other (web)blogs can link to our site.

I did not watch the World Series game, but it appears the 'curse of the Bambino' may be lifted, now that the Bosox are up 2-0. The curse, reputedly, was slapped on the Boston Red Sox by the Gods of baseball for trading George Hermann (Babe) Ruth to the Yankees, a day which for ever after for Red Sox fans, will live in infamy.