Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Give It A Try

An early halt to a trial of deep brain stimulation for depression reveals little about the treatment but more about the changing nature of clinical trials.
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TRIAL AND ERROR
NORMAL BRAIN, GALAXY BRAIN
What Went Wrong In The First-Ever Clinical Trial Of Deep Brain Stimulation For Depression?
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An early halt to a trial of deep brain stimulation for depression reveals little about the treatment but more about the changing nature of clinical trials.
JOYSTICK JOYRIDE
The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Videogame Empire — And Went Too Far
wired.com
Well before he could read or write, David Pokora mastered the intricacies of first-person shooters.
(A LOT)
How Much Money You'd Have If You Invested $10K In The World's Biggest Companies At IPO, Visualized
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​Regrets, we have a few. Namely, not figuring out how to buy a couple thousand dollars of stock in Amazon in 1997 when the company IPO'd.
GOD IS IN THE URLS
How Liberty University Built A Billion-Dollar Empire Online
nytimes.com
With a hard sell to prospective students and huge amounts in taxpayer funding, Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed the evangelical institution into a behemoth.
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More Speeds For Better Gaming (Plus A Free Year Of Xbox Live Gold)
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Switch to Fios Gigabit Connection and get faster speeds for better gaming, plus a one-year membership to Xbox Live Gold and your choice between PUBG or "Sea of Thieves."
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR TEETH
A Rare Look Inside A Shark Feeding Frenzy
nationalgeographic.com
A rare photographic documentation of a violent, chaotic collision of hungry sharks and breeding groupers in a French Polynesian channel.
MARGINAL ERROR
100 Years Of Tax Brackets, In One Chart
vox.com
Tax brackets are actually among the easiest parts of the tax code, thanks to modern software, math and the fact that the number of brackets has been vastly reduced over the decades.
FUCKING ITALY, MAN
Medieval Italian Man Replaced His Amputated Hand With A Knife
gizmodo.com
Italian anthropologists have documented a remarkable case in which a Medieval-era Italian male not only managed to survive the amputation of his right hand, he also used a bladed weapon as a prosthetic limb.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
SUPER SONIC
Colorado Guy Catches A Plane Crash On His Dash Cam
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Dash cams are made to capture car crashes and other crazy stuff that happens on the road. But filming a plane crash from a fast food drive-through? Guess they're built for that too.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Puts The Brakes On New Russian Sanctions, Reversing Haley's Announcement
Judge Rejects Trump And Cohen's Bid To View Seized Papers Before Prosecutors
Sean Hannity Revealed As Michael Cohen's Third Client After Trump And Former RNC Finance Deputy
What To Know About The Gay Rights Lawyer Who Self-Immolated In Brooklyn In A Protest Suicide
Shark Attack Ends Australian Surf Tournament
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Have a good Tuesday, my kings.