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Brain hacking: using neurofeedback to master conflicting wills in yourmind

I've written before about Moran Cerf -- celebrated neuroscientist, former military hacker, and good-guy bank robber -- who also happens to be a great storyteller.

Yuck! NYC fourth grader sneaks camera into school, makes documentary about gross cafeteriafood

Zachary is a fourth grader at a large New York City public elementary school. Each day he reads the Department of Education lunch menu online to see what is being served. The menu describes delicious and nutritious cuisine that reads as if it came from the finest restaurants.

India's OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jailtime

OMICS Publishing Group, an Indian scholarly publisher has threatened to sue one of its critics, Metadata librarian Jeffrey Beall, for $1 billion, and has threatened him with prison time over posts he made to his prominent Scholarly Open Access site.

Video of a maker's everyday daycarry

At Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 longtime Make pal Kent Barnes kindly opened his everyday carry case and showed me what"s inside. It"s a highly personalized collection of tools, including a flashlight, X-Acto knife, drivers, laser pointer, and lock pick tools. See the video at Makezine.

HOWTO kill a tiger(1902)

The Public Domain Review has a nice gallery of plates from Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield's 1902 book "How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India," which is pretty much exactly what i

Grizzly bear eats video camera: close up of terrifyingmaw

Here's a video of biologist Brad Josephs's GoPro camera being eaten by a grizzly bear in Alaska; he'd set it out in order to get footage for a BBC documentary. The grizzly went above and beyond the call of duty.

Crazy guy with a gun shoots at Cannes filmfestival

A man with a gun described as a "starting pistol" was arrested at the Cannes film festival today after firing the weapon during a live TV broadcast of a Canal+ show. Actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil, who were being interviewed at the time, scampered off for cover.

Who Said It: Rob "alleged cracksmoker" Ford, or Simpsons Mayor Diamond JoeQuimby?

Justin Peters at Slate.com says Toronto Mayor Rob Ford "most closely resembles" the mayor on TV's The Simpsons, Diamond Joe Quimby. "Both men are heavyset. Both are often at odds with constituents, colleagues, and the press.

And both are prone to saying outrageous things in public.

DirecTV among possible buyers of video siteHulu

Reuters reports that DirecTV, America's largest satellite television provider, is one of a number of companies considering a buyout of Hulu.com. Time Warner Cable has been identified as one of the other possible suitors.

MIT Master's Thesis on Denial of Service attacks as a form of politicalactivism

Molly sez, "For the past two years I've been researching activist uses of distributed denial of service actions. I just finished my masters thesis on the subject (for the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT).