Job interviews are rarely stress-free. Acting professional, shaking hands firmly, and speaking clearly all become difficult tasks when a job is on the line. So when you see the apocalypse happening outside your potential boss’s window, it’s perfectly natural to freak out a little.
That’s exactly what happened to four candidates at LG Electronics in Chile—or at least, it’s what they thought was happening. Actually, the electronics giant had replaced the window in the room with an 84-inch HD television, which it used to show a very realistic mammoth meteor destroying all of civilization. As the cloud of rubble and debris seemed to near the office building, the room shook and the lights cut out.
What happened next was hilarious—to everyone except the interviewees, who weren’t all relieved to learn it was just a prank.
Job interviews are rarely stress-free. Acting professional, shaking hands firmly, and speaking clearly all become difficult tasks when a job is on the line. So when you see the apocalypse happening outside your potential boss’s window, it’s perfectly natural to freak out a little.
That’s exactly what happened to four candidates at LG Electronics in Chile—or at least, it’s what they thought was happening. Actually, the electronics giant had replaced the window in the room with an 84-inch HD television, which it used to show a very realistic mammoth meteor destroying all of civilization. As the cloud of rubble and debris seemed to near the office building, the room shook and the lights cut out.
What happened next was hilarious—to everyone except the interviewees, who weren’t all relieved to learn it was just a prank.
An Iranian filmmaker, Bahram Sadeghi, uploaded a video Thursday of himself calling the National Security Agency (NSA) hotline in a sarcastic attempt to retrieve an email he told the operator he accidentally deleted.
“A couple of days ago I received an email and by mistake I deleted it, the email… permanently,” Sadeghi can be seen explaining to an NSA employee over the phone.
An Iranian filmmaker, Bahram Sadeghi, uploaded a video Thursday of himself calling the National Security Agency (NSA) hotline in a sarcastic attempt to retrieve an email he told the operator he accidentally deleted.
“A couple of days ago I received an email and by mistake I deleted it, the email… permanently,” Sadeghi can be seen explaining to an NSA employee over the phone.
The filmmaker then explains to the operator assisting him that he went to a computer store to recover the supposed email, but they were unable to do so. According to him, they suggested he call the NSA.
“This is something we wouldn’t actually be able to help you with,” replies the NSA employee.
Sadeghi then informs the unidentified employee that he is Iranian and suggests as a result he may be monitored more heavily by the NSA.
While the NSA said they were unable to help Sadeghi, they can be heard asking him for his personal contact information in the roughly five minute video.
The video had a little over 74,000 views at the time of publication.
An Iranian filmmaker, Bahram Sadeghi, uploaded a video Thursday of himself calling the National Security Agency (NSA) hotline in a sarcastic attempt to retrieve an email he told the operator he accidentally deleted.
“A couple of days ago I received an email and by mistake I deleted it, the email… permanently,” Sadeghi can be seen explaining to an NSA employee over the phone.
An Iranian filmmaker, Bahram Sadeghi, uploaded a video Thursday of himself calling the National Security Agency (NSA) hotline in a sarcastic attempt to retrieve an email he told the operator he accidentally deleted.
“A couple of days ago I received an email and by mistake I deleted it, the email… permanently,” Sadeghi can be seen explaining to an NSA employee over the phone.
The filmmaker then explains to the operator assisting him that he went to a computer store to recover the supposed email, but they were unable to do so. According to him, they suggested he call the NSA.
“This is something we wouldn’t actually be able to help you with,” replies the NSA employee.
Sadeghi then informs the unidentified employee that he is Iranian and suggests as a result he may be monitored more heavily by the NSA.
While the NSA said they were unable to help Sadeghi, they can be heard asking him for his personal contact information in the roughly five minute video.
The video had a little over 74,000 views at the time of publication.
Retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, wasn't looking for an answer to the energy crisis. He was looking for a cure for cancer." Sounds great, but Stan Meyer ended up dead somehow in the 90s when he invented his famous water powered car. I hope this guy lives long enough to get this invention into production.
Retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, wasn't looking for an answer to the energy crisis. He was looking for a cure for cancer." Sounds great, but Stan Meyer ended up dead somehow in the 90s when he invented his famous water powered car. I hope this guy lives long enough to get this invention into production.
Dr. William Courtney Youngest patient @ 8months Suffered from a inoperable from massive brain Tumor .. The Baby Treated was treated with CANNABIS OIL on his Pacifier Twice Daily , Increase dosage. Within 4 months the Brain Tumor was essentially one & by 8 months architecture .
Dr. William Courtney Youngest patient @ 8months Suffered from a inoperable from massive brain Tumor .. The Baby Treated was treated with CANNABIS OIL on his Pacifier Twice Daily , Increase dosage. Within 4 months the Brain Tumor was essentially one & by 8 months architecture .
Magician Dan White meets up with a Buddhist monk, in Nepal, who has the power of levitation. Do you believe this or not??? Let’s watch the video below and share your thoughts. For me, this ability does really exist. But only some special people or people who cultivate can do like this….
Magician Dan White meets up with a Buddhist monk, in Nepal, who has the power of levitation. Do you believe this or not??? Let’s watch the video below and share your thoughts. For me, this ability does really exist. But only some special people or people who cultivate can do like this….
Another bedroom practice of Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. Brothers Jonny Mizzone age 8 on banjo, Robbie Mizzone age 12 on fiddle, and Tommy Mizzone age 13 on guitar.
Another bedroom practice of Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. Brothers Jonny Mizzone age 8 on banjo, Robbie Mizzone age 12 on fiddle, and Tommy Mizzone age 13 on guitar.
Surgeons carrying out an operation to remove a 'tumour' from a newborn baby's brain were shocked to find a perfectly-formed tiny foot, and some other body parts.
Three-month-old Sam Esquibel has been hailed a 'miracle baby' after he survived the operation on what doctors believed was a large tumour, picked-up during an ultrasound on Sam's heavily pregnant mother Tiffnie Esquibel.
Sam was born after an induced labour, allowing surgeons in Colorado to operate quickly.
Sam Esquibel survived a modern medical miracle - after being born with a foot in his brain
But what followed was unbelievable.
'A lot of us who have been in practice long enough like to think we've seen everything,' neurosurgeon Dr Paul Grabb said.
'The foot quite literally popped out of the tumour. It made me stop operating, since I'm not used to seeing feet in the brain.
'This would be a one-in-a-lifetime finding in the operating room.'
When Dr Grabb finished surgery at Colorado Springs Memorial Central Hospital, he and other members of the surgical team told the Esquibels what he had found.
'They just looked at us and said, "It's just remarkable. It's for the books what we found".'
Manny and Tiffnie Esquibel had been trying for many years to have a child
Tiffnie Esquibel said she was equally stunned.
'We didn't know what to think when they told us what they found.'
Dr Grabb eventually removed the tumour, which was found to contain other partially formed body parts, including a thigh and a hand.
The body parts were found to be non-cancerous. Monthly tests on Sam have shown that it is not growing back.
Now, a vertical scar on his right temple, above the ear and just where his hairline ends, is the only sign that Sam is a medical marvel.
This graphic shows where the foot was found in Sam Esquibel's brain
Even the tiny blood vessels are visible in the foot
'He is a miracle,' his mother said. 'I just love him so much.'
Mrs Esquibel and her husband Manny Esquibel had been trying for most of their 13-year marriage to have a child and had finally resigned themselves to being childless.
'We came to the conclusion that we couldn't get pregnant and just stopped trying,' she said.
Mrs Esquibel said she did not notice anything unusual before the birth.
'I had a very normally pregnancy - I enjoyed every minute of it and seemed to be just fine.'
Although Sam is doing well now, Mrs Esquibel said there were tense moments.
'When I went into hospital I thought, "OK we're going to come out of here with a baby in our arms".
'But we didn't - he was in another hospital.
'They told us it was a 50-50 chance whether he could make it through it or not.'
Dr Paul Grabb performed the operation. Experts believe the foot was a teratoma - a mass that contains various body parts, often incomplete
A vertical scar on his right temple is now the only sign that there was something wrong with 3-month-old Sam Esquibel
Dr Nancy Snyderman, chief medical editor for NBC News, which interviewed the family, said that the tumour could be one of two rare birth conditions.
The first and more common is a teratoma, which is a mass that contains various incompletely formed body parts that may include hair and teeth.
'I've seen quite a few teratomas in my life, in the neck, in the chest, in the abdomen,' Dr Snyderman said.
'Never one in the brain.'
She said that the other condition, of which fewer than 100 have ever been reported in the world, is called fetus in fetu. The term literally means "fetus in fetus" and occurs when one twin engulfs the other in the womb.
The engulfed twin feeds off the other as a sort of parasite and continues to grow and develop. Unless removed, it usually proves fatal.
Doctors who have reviewed Sam's case tend to think the tumour was a teratoma.
Dr Snyderman said that Sam would surely become a case study in a little-understood medical phenomenon.
The only noticeable side-effect of the operation is that Sam tends to fix his gaze towards the right side of his head where the tumour was.
Surgeons carrying out an operation to remove a 'tumour' from a newborn baby's brain were shocked to find a perfectly-formed tiny foot, and some other body parts.
Three-month-old Sam Esquibel has been hailed a 'miracle baby' after he survived the operation on what doctors believed was a large tumour, picked-up during an ultrasound on Sam's heavily pregnant mother Tiffnie Esquibel.
Sam was born after an induced labour, allowing surgeons in Colorado to operate quickly.
Sam Esquibel survived a modern medical miracle - after being born with a foot in his brain
But what followed was unbelievable.
'A lot of us who have been in practice long enough like to think we've seen everything,' neurosurgeon Dr Paul Grabb said.
'The foot quite literally popped out of the tumour. It made me stop operating, since I'm not used to seeing feet in the brain.
'This would be a one-in-a-lifetime finding in the operating room.'
When Dr Grabb finished surgery at Colorado Springs Memorial Central Hospital, he and other members of the surgical team told the Esquibels what he had found.
'They just looked at us and said, "It's just remarkable. It's for the books what we found".'
Manny and Tiffnie Esquibel had been trying for many years to have a child
Tiffnie Esquibel said she was equally stunned.
'We didn't know what to think when they told us what they found.'
Dr Grabb eventually removed the tumour, which was found to contain other partially formed body parts, including a thigh and a hand.
The body parts were found to be non-cancerous. Monthly tests on Sam have shown that it is not growing back.
Now, a vertical scar on his right temple, above the ear and just where his hairline ends, is the only sign that Sam is a medical marvel.
This graphic shows where the foot was found in Sam Esquibel's brain
Even the tiny blood vessels are visible in the foot
'He is a miracle,' his mother said. 'I just love him so much.'
Mrs Esquibel and her husband Manny Esquibel had been trying for most of their 13-year marriage to have a child and had finally resigned themselves to being childless.
'We came to the conclusion that we couldn't get pregnant and just stopped trying,' she said.
Mrs Esquibel said she did not notice anything unusual before the birth.
'I had a very normally pregnancy - I enjoyed every minute of it and seemed to be just fine.'
Although Sam is doing well now, Mrs Esquibel said there were tense moments.
'When I went into hospital I thought, "OK we're going to come out of here with a baby in our arms".
'But we didn't - he was in another hospital.
'They told us it was a 50-50 chance whether he could make it through it or not.'
Dr Paul Grabb performed the operation. Experts believe the foot was a teratoma - a mass that contains various body parts, often incomplete
A vertical scar on his right temple is now the only sign that there was something wrong with 3-month-old Sam Esquibel
Dr Nancy Snyderman, chief medical editor for NBC News, which interviewed the family, said that the tumour could be one of two rare birth conditions.
The first and more common is a teratoma, which is a mass that contains various incompletely formed body parts that may include hair and teeth.
'I've seen quite a few teratomas in my life, in the neck, in the chest, in the abdomen,' Dr Snyderman said.
'Never one in the brain.'
She said that the other condition, of which fewer than 100 have ever been reported in the world, is called fetus in fetu. The term literally means "fetus in fetus" and occurs when one twin engulfs the other in the womb.
The engulfed twin feeds off the other as a sort of parasite and continues to grow and develop. Unless removed, it usually proves fatal.
Doctors who have reviewed Sam's case tend to think the tumour was a teratoma.
Dr Snyderman said that Sam would surely become a case study in a little-understood medical phenomenon.
The only noticeable side-effect of the operation is that Sam tends to fix his gaze towards the right side of his head where the tumour was.
Video testimony by an anonymous alleged former CIA official was shown at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Friday, May 3.
UFO author and historian Richard Dolan interviewed "Anonymous" in, 2013. Facing impending kidney failure, this individual felt compelled to disclose secret information he feels is too important to keep secret.
In the video, he claims to have served in the U.S. Army, worked for the CIA, and worked on the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book--one of the USAF's official studies of UFOs. And he refers to the project as "partially a fraud." Asking for clarification, Dolan states, "You're saying some of the Blue Book cases were completely fictitious?" The anonymous man responds, "Yes."
"Anonymous" alleges that, after an invasion threat from President Dwight Eisenhower, he and his superior at the CIA were allowed inside the secretive Area 51 in Nevada to gather intel and report back to the president. There, "Anonymous" describes seeing several alien spacecraft, including the craft that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Then, he and his superior were taken to the S-4 facility southwest of Area 51 where they observed live extraterrestrials.
Certain parts of this video were Edited to protect the individual giving the testimony.
Video testimony by an anonymous alleged former CIA official was shown at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Friday, May 3.
UFO author and historian Richard Dolan interviewed "Anonymous" in, 2013. Facing impending kidney failure, this individual felt compelled to disclose secret information he feels is too important to keep secret.
In the video, he claims to have served in the U.S. Army, worked for the CIA, and worked on the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book--one of the USAF's official studies of UFOs. And he refers to the project as "partially a fraud." Asking for clarification, Dolan states, "You're saying some of the Blue Book cases were completely fictitious?" The anonymous man responds, "Yes."
"Anonymous" alleges that, after an invasion threat from President Dwight Eisenhower, he and his superior at the CIA were allowed inside the secretive Area 51 in Nevada to gather intel and report back to the president. There, "Anonymous" describes seeing several alien spacecraft, including the craft that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Then, he and his superior were taken to the S-4 facility southwest of Area 51 where they observed live extraterrestrials.
Certain parts of this video were Edited to protect the individual giving the testimony.
In 1975 this formerly secret CIA weapon was declassified. The information about this weapon comes from U.S. Senate testimony in 1975 relating to rogue activities of the CIA. This video shows actual Congressional testimony explaining how the Heart Attack Gun works. The Heart Attack Gun shoots a small poison dart that is made of ice. The poison causes a heart attack. Then the dart melts and the poison denatures so there is nothing that shows up in autopsy.
The dart can penetrate clothing and leave only a tiny red dot on the skin. The victim may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or might not feel anything. Andrew Breitbart announced at CPAC 02-10-2012 that he would soon be releasing information that would bring Obama down. On March 1, 2012, Breitbart collapsed while walking in Brentwood. He died of a "heart attack" at the age of 43 years old. The toxicology report showed "No prescription or illicit drugs were detected."
Our government now keeps lists of people who have been marked for death. Predator Drones are carrying out killings all over the world. 30,000 new Predator Drones have been purchased. Feds have recently bought nearly 15 million rounds of hollow point ammo.
Watch the full Federal Ministry of Murder Playlist on this channel:
Is the United States still a government of law? Nothing in the Constitution or laws gives the president the right to kill any human being. Those accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty. Only a jury can find the accused guilty. Only a judge can impose a sentence. Obama has no authority to order the death of any American no matter where he is, and no matter what allegation is made against him.
If we allow the president to order any person's death without any due process we have accepted tyranny.
"We were just obeying orders" was the common excuse at Nuremberg.
How did that work? Here is a video to help us remember:
Nazi Leaders Executed At Nuremberg
Terrorism provides the EXCUSE FOR TYRANNY. DHS just bought 450 million rounds hollow point ammo, illegal to use in military. The only possible use is domestic, against Americans.
Read the article "FEDS ARMING FOR WAR WITH WHO?" http://targetfreedom.com/american-con...
The American government will be putting 30,000 Predator drones the in skies above us.
Watch the rest of youtube channel johnperna2.
See the "help wanted" ad for hiring concentration camp guards.
"Freedom or Slavery?"
"Militarization of Our Police"
Thomas Jefferson said:
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
I add to this:
"The battle for freedom is never won, and is never lost.
The battle for freedom always continues.
It is never too late, and it is never soon enough, to defend freedom.
No matter how enslaved we are, we always have hope.
No matter how free we are we are never safe.
NOTHING EVER LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT, EXCEPT THE PEOPLE.
Any generation that fails to defend freedom will lose it.
The next generation will have to shed blood to gain it back" John Perna
The defense of liberty is a lifetime project.
When the defense of liberty becomes a crime, tyranny is already in force. At that point, failure to defend liberty makes slavery at certainty. John Perna
Regardless of the vote fraud, and the dirty tricks at conventions, the cause of liberty will persist until victory. After victory the defense of liberty will continue.
In 1975 this formerly secret CIA weapon was declassified. The information about this weapon comes from U.S. Senate testimony in 1975 relating to rogue activities of the CIA. This video shows actual Congressional testimony explaining how the Heart Attack Gun works. The Heart Attack Gun shoots a small poison dart that is made of ice. The poison causes a heart attack. Then the dart melts and the poison denatures so there is nothing that shows up in autopsy.
The dart can penetrate clothing and leave only a tiny red dot on the skin. The victim may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or might not feel anything. Andrew Breitbart announced at CPAC 02-10-2012 that he would soon be releasing information that would bring Obama down. On March 1, 2012, Breitbart collapsed while walking in Brentwood. He died of a "heart attack" at the age of 43 years old. The toxicology report showed "No prescription or illicit drugs were detected."
Our government now keeps lists of people who have been marked for death. Predator Drones are carrying out killings all over the world. 30,000 new Predator Drones have been purchased. Feds have recently bought nearly 15 million rounds of hollow point ammo.
Watch the full Federal Ministry of Murder Playlist on this channel:
Is the United States still a government of law? Nothing in the Constitution or laws gives the president the right to kill any human being. Those accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty. Only a jury can find the accused guilty. Only a judge can impose a sentence. Obama has no authority to order the death of any American no matter where he is, and no matter what allegation is made against him.
If we allow the president to order any person's death without any due process we have accepted tyranny.
"We were just obeying orders" was the common excuse at Nuremberg.
How did that work? Here is a video to help us remember:
Nazi Leaders Executed At Nuremberg
Terrorism provides the EXCUSE FOR TYRANNY. DHS just bought 450 million rounds hollow point ammo, illegal to use in military. The only possible use is domestic, against Americans.
Read the article "FEDS ARMING FOR WAR WITH WHO?" http://targetfreedom.com/american-con...
The American government will be putting 30,000 Predator drones the in skies above us.
Watch the rest of youtube channel johnperna2.
See the "help wanted" ad for hiring concentration camp guards.
"Freedom or Slavery?"
"Militarization of Our Police"
Thomas Jefferson said:
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
I add to this:
"The battle for freedom is never won, and is never lost.
The battle for freedom always continues.
It is never too late, and it is never soon enough, to defend freedom.
No matter how enslaved we are, we always have hope.
No matter how free we are we are never safe.
NOTHING EVER LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT, EXCEPT THE PEOPLE.
Any generation that fails to defend freedom will lose it.
The next generation will have to shed blood to gain it back" John Perna
The defense of liberty is a lifetime project.
When the defense of liberty becomes a crime, tyranny is already in force. At that point, failure to defend liberty makes slavery at certainty. John Perna
Regardless of the vote fraud, and the dirty tricks at conventions, the cause of liberty will persist until victory. After victory the defense of liberty will continue.
A student at Texas Tech University appears to be the first American to have his driver’s license photo taken — and to successfully obtain a driver’s license — while wearing a pasta strainer on his head.
The student, Eddie Castillo, pulled off the stunt by claiming to practice Pastafarianism and belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, reports KLBK.
Castillo told DMV officials that the silver, metal pasta strainer is a religious symbol for him, and they bought it.
“Once she allowed me to put the pasta strainer on my head, I took the biggest, cheesiest smile I probably ever took,” he reminisced to the Lubbock CBS affiliate.
Pastafarianism is a satire. Its proponents seek to illustrate their belief that government should avoid promoting any single religion.
The purposefully preposterous religion originated in 2005, notes the Daily Mail. A guy named Bobby Henderson concocted it (along with the Spaghetti Monster, the belief that pirates are gods and much else) while he was fighting against the inclusion of intelligent design in Kansas public schools.
“It was created as a form of satire, but it shouldn’t be taken in a sense that discriminates or disassociates other religions, and it should be looked at as a political symbol for the separation between church and state,” Castillo explained.
As KLBK notes, Castillo isn’t the first person in the United States to try such antics.
A student at Texas Tech University appears to be the first American to have his driver’s license photo taken — and to successfully obtain a driver’s license — while wearing a pasta strainer on his head.
The student, Eddie Castillo, pulled off the stunt by claiming to practice Pastafarianism and belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, reports KLBK.
Castillo told DMV officials that the silver, metal pasta strainer is a religious symbol for him, and they bought it.
“Once she allowed me to put the pasta strainer on my head, I took the biggest, cheesiest smile I probably ever took,” he reminisced to the Lubbock CBS affiliate.
Pastafarianism is a satire. Its proponents seek to illustrate their belief that government should avoid promoting any single religion.
The purposefully preposterous religion originated in 2005, notes the Daily Mail. A guy named Bobby Henderson concocted it (along with the Spaghetti Monster, the belief that pirates are gods and much else) while he was fighting against the inclusion of intelligent design in Kansas public schools.
“It was created as a form of satire, but it shouldn’t be taken in a sense that discriminates or disassociates other religions, and it should be looked at as a political symbol for the separation between church and state,” Castillo explained.
As KLBK notes, Castillo isn’t the first person in the United States to try such antics.
Here is a hard hitting dose of perspective of what unsustainable demand looks like. Warning, you may have a feeling of emptiness inside after watching.
Here is a hard hitting dose of perspective of what unsustainable demand looks like. Warning, you may have a feeling of emptiness inside after watching.
Twerking has been bouncing across the Internet, inspiring the likes of Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and various animals.
Like any other dance, the now notorious booty shake has evolved. One new trend we have noticed in particular is a move we have dubbed #twogging, which is the act of twerking on or around your dog (or anyone else’s dog, for that matter).
In the above video we have compiled several examples of this new trend. If, after watching the video, you feel compelled to try it out yourself, we encourage you practice safe #twogging by only preforming for canines you have a previous relationship with and are sure will not be startled into aggression by having an ass shaken in their face.
Twerking has been bouncing across the Internet, inspiring the likes of Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj and various animals.
Like any other dance, the now notorious booty shake has evolved. One new trend we have noticed in particular is a move we have dubbed #twogging, which is the act of twerking on or around your dog (or anyone else’s dog, for that matter).
In the above video we have compiled several examples of this new trend. If, after watching the video, you feel compelled to try it out yourself, we encourage you practice safe #twogging by only preforming for canines you have a previous relationship with and are sure will not be startled into aggression by having an ass shaken in their face.
Michael Shermer, tries his hand at firewalking barefoot across 1000-degree red hot coals and doesn't get burned. Dr. Shermer provides a scientific explanation for the mysterious
Michael Shermer, tries his hand at firewalking barefoot across 1000-degree red hot coals and doesn't get burned. Dr. Shermer provides a scientific explanation for the mysterious
Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans — which is a good thing in the case of friends and family, but terrifying if you stop to think about the nefarious possibilities of a fascist dictatorship with mind control tech.
In recent years there have been huge advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces, where your thoughts are detected and “understood” by a sensor attached to a computer, but relatively little work has been done in the opposite direction (computer-brain interfaces). This is because it’s one thing for a computer to work out what a human is thinking (by asking or observing their actions), but another thing entirely to inject new thoughts into a human brain. To put it bluntly, we have almost no idea of how thoughts are encoded by neurons in the brain. For now, the best we can do is create a computer-brain interface that stimulates a region of the brain that’s known to create a certain reaction — such as the specific part of the motor cortex that’s in charge of your fingers. We don’t have the power to move your fingers in a specific way — that would require knowing the brain’s encoding scheme — but we can make them jerk around. Which brings us neatly onto Harvard’s human-mouse brain-to-brain interface. The human wears a run-of-the-mill EEG-based BCI, while the mouse is equipped with a focused ultrasound (FUS) computer-brain interface (CBI). FUS is a relatively new technology that allows the researchers to excite a very specific region of neurons in the rat’s brain using an ultrasound signal. The main advantage of FUS is that, unlike most brain-stimulation techniques, such as DBS, it isn’t invasive. For now it looks like the FUS equipment is fairly bulky, but future versions might be small enough for use in everyday human CBIs. (See: Real-life Avatar: The first mind-controlled robot surrogate.)
With the EEG equipped, the BCI detects whenever the human looks at a specific pattern on a computer screen. The BCI then fires off a command to rat’s CBI, which causes ultrasound to be beamed into the region of the rat’s motor cortex that deals with tail movement. As you can see in the video above, this causes the rat’s tail to move. The researchers report that the human BCI has an accuracy of 94%, and that it generally takes around 1.5 seconds for the entire process — from the human deciding to look at the screen, through to the movement of the rat’s tail. In theory, the human could trigger a rodent tail-wag by simply thinking about it, rather than having to look at a specific pattern — but presumably, for the sake of this experiment, the researchers wanted to focus on the FUS CBI, rather than the BCI.
Moving forward, the researchers now need to work on the transmitting of more complex ideas, such as hunger or sexual arousal, from human to rat. At some point, they’ll also have to put the FUS CBI on a human, to see if thoughts can be transferred in the opposite direction. Finally, we’ll need to combine an EEG and FUS into a single unit, to allow for bidirectional sharing of thoughts and ideas. Human-to-human telepathy is the most obvious use, but what if the same bidirectional technology also allows us to really communicate with animals, such as dogs? There would be huge ethical concerns, of course, especially if a dictatorial tyrant uses the tech to control our thoughts — but the same can be said of almost every futuristic, transhumanist technology.
Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human… and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat’s tail. This is one of the most important steps towards BBIs that allow for telepathic links between two or more humans — which is a good thing in the case of friends and family, but terrifying if you stop to think about the nefarious possibilities of a fascist dictatorship with mind control tech.
In recent years there have been huge advances in the field of brain-computer interfaces, where your thoughts are detected and “understood” by a sensor attached to a computer, but relatively little work has been done in the opposite direction (computer-brain interfaces). This is because it’s one thing for a computer to work out what a human is thinking (by asking or observing their actions), but another thing entirely to inject new thoughts into a human brain. To put it bluntly, we have almost no idea of how thoughts are encoded by neurons in the brain. For now, the best we can do is create a computer-brain interface that stimulates a region of the brain that’s known to create a certain reaction — such as the specific part of the motor cortex that’s in charge of your fingers. We don’t have the power to move your fingers in a specific way — that would require knowing the brain’s encoding scheme — but we can make them jerk around. Which brings us neatly onto Harvard’s human-mouse brain-to-brain interface. The human wears a run-of-the-mill EEG-based BCI, while the mouse is equipped with a focused ultrasound (FUS) computer-brain interface (CBI). FUS is a relatively new technology that allows the researchers to excite a very specific region of neurons in the rat’s brain using an ultrasound signal. The main advantage of FUS is that, unlike most brain-stimulation techniques, such as DBS, it isn’t invasive. For now it looks like the FUS equipment is fairly bulky, but future versions might be small enough for use in everyday human CBIs. (See: Real-life Avatar: The first mind-controlled robot surrogate.)
With the EEG equipped, the BCI detects whenever the human looks at a specific pattern on a computer screen. The BCI then fires off a command to rat’s CBI, which causes ultrasound to be beamed into the region of the rat’s motor cortex that deals with tail movement. As you can see in the video above, this causes the rat’s tail to move. The researchers report that the human BCI has an accuracy of 94%, and that it generally takes around 1.5 seconds for the entire process — from the human deciding to look at the screen, through to the movement of the rat’s tail. In theory, the human could trigger a rodent tail-wag by simply thinking about it, rather than having to look at a specific pattern — but presumably, for the sake of this experiment, the researchers wanted to focus on the FUS CBI, rather than the BCI.
Moving forward, the researchers now need to work on the transmitting of more complex ideas, such as hunger or sexual arousal, from human to rat. At some point, they’ll also have to put the FUS CBI on a human, to see if thoughts can be transferred in the opposite direction. Finally, we’ll need to combine an EEG and FUS into a single unit, to allow for bidirectional sharing of thoughts and ideas. Human-to-human telepathy is the most obvious use, but what if the same bidirectional technology also allows us to really communicate with animals, such as dogs? There would be huge ethical concerns, of course, especially if a dictatorial tyrant uses the tech to control our thoughts — but the same can be said of almost every futuristic, transhumanist technology.
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