Cognitive Labs

As we announced earlier, we were closing in on 10 million visitors but recently passed that milestone and today passed 40 million page views.

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We'll shortly break this barrier.

Other things related to 10 million...



Fungus-farming leaf-cutter ants originated about 10 million years ago.

iPhone: 10 million aps downloaded in one phar-out weekend.

Cleopatra spent 10 million sesterces on a banquet for Mark Antony.

Omega Centauri has 10 million stars.


Omega Centauri, largest globular cluster in the Milky Way galaxy.

10 million: the estimated number of animal species on earth.

XBox: 10 million consoles sold in U.S. as of mid-2008.

WOW. World of Warcraft: 10 million subscribers reached in 2008.

Dr. Mercola: 10 Million baby boomers face alzheimers epidemic



Ten million rivets were used to build the Queen Mary in the 1930's.


The Santa Fe grain elevator at Kansas City once held 10 million bushels.


U.K. teacher Michael LeCount, 40, has 10 million lego bricks in his collection.

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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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