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...before you decide to plop your baby next to every runny-nosed kid in sight, there are a few things you should know. Finding an association does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship. Furthermore, some infections can by themselves be quite harmful, even life threatening. The last thing any doctor would suggest is that outbreaks of, say, meningitis or diphtheria are good because in the long run they might protect the survivors against asthma...
...doubt we'll be doing it for very long, as various models of biological and nanomolecular computing are looming rapidly in view. Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to. Get all the functions and features you want, without that clunky-junky 20th century hardware thing. You really don't need...
...night lingered, tipsy neighbors returned from various parties and bars to plop down on the grass, listen to music and pass around their first-year facebook to pick out targets for the next night's debauchery...
Some days all I want to do when I get home is plop down in front of the TV set and let my brain go blank. You probably know the feeling. But if two groups of neurologists--from University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio--are right, we may all live to regret our tube-trolling ways. At a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology last week, they reported that people who remain active outside of work by taking up such stimulating activities as painting, gardening or playing a musical instrument are three times less likely...
...lost in gadget reverie the other evening on the train, fiddling with a sleek new Palm Vx, when I felt a fellow commuter plop down next to me. He sat close--too close--so I looked up and saw a man in a suit leaning over me, peering at my screen. "Got any good games?" he asked. Then he whipped out his own Palm (some kind of III) and pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said...