Cognitive Labs

Charlton Heston, who was known to be suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, has just passed away in Beverly Hills (the news just hit the wires).

Here's the story

Here's a look at the star in some of his best-known roles:


An Oscar in 1960 for Ben-Hur




Taylor - Planet of the Apes: Watch the film


The 10 Commandments


Heston as General Charles Gordon with Sir Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi

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2007 Developments...


-Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix, gets decoded
and elects not to know his APOEe4 (Alzheimer's genetic risk) status - book

-Brain Training: a Nascent Industry gets more support, led at the consumer end by Nintendo which has sold 10 million copies of BrainAge

-Personal Genetic Assessment Becomes Widely Available

-"Genebook/MyDNA" Hypothetically available from deCodeme and 23and me
-friends and contacts can see each others genetic make-up
-will people select associations in the future based on the data?
-Science fictional concept from many works including the film 'Gattaca'

-Connection Between APOEe4,Cognitive Speed and Early Detection of Impairment
shown by Cognitive Labs in peer-reviewed research

-Scientists moving toward cocktail approach in treating Alzheimer's
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071127150841.htm

-Consensus on Early detection of Alzheimers is becoming increasingly vocal

-Cognitive 'Speed' a key measure of cognitive fitness, studies show speed exercises maintain brain fitness more effectively than randomly selected activities. Also, eat chocolate and have sex

-Cognitive Labs' creates first open source brain-training gadgets that can run anywhere

(successful beta complete, this may be one for 2008)

-According to New Scientist, there may be Multiple Universes in the same place, which would help to explain the problem of the 'missing mass' in astrophysics. Put a bag with a few grams of sand on a scale, yet the weight is 1 kilogram. Our present detection methods are insensitive to these hidden grains of sand.

Univ. of Arizona paper on missing mass

These Developments, in our biased opinion, will contribute towards a better year ahead - with greater life, prosperity and health for everyone.



(ankh, wedja, seneb)

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One of the ways we measure growth here is the time we hit milestones...once we used to reach 10,000 page views in a day - by 11:59 PM - (June '06) and we though that was great. But this milestone keeps getting rolled back...to earlier and earlier times. Today it was at 8:46 AM. (Pacific time) - earliest ever, and not as a result of an unnatural 'spike' of traffic from slashdot or something like that. One of the reasons is growth in the U.S. but also a bit of a surge in India where Cognitive Labs is getting more popular.

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