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Obama outlines human brain-mapping initiative
wa poo ^ | 4-2-13 | scott wilson

Posted on 04/02/2013 9:52:21 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

President Obama on Tuesday outlined a government-sponsored initiative to map the human brain, casting the proposal as a way to discover new cures for neurological disease and strengthen the economy. “Ideas are what power our economy,” Obama said in announcing the proposal from the White House East Room. “When we invest in the best ideas before anyone else does, our businesses and our workers can make the best products and deliver the best services before anyone else does.” The project would use about $100 million in federal money over the next fiscal year

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brain; spending
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To: TurboZamboni
According to the administration's outline of the program, those funds would be directed toward research that explores the activity of neural networks, invests in the data-analysis projects needed to sift through the large volume of information scientists expect to gather, and examines “how thoughts, emotions, actions, and memories are represented in the brain.”

Where to install the thought Police implant...


21 posted on 04/02/2013 10:44:33 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. liberals and logic: Never confuse the two! Hi MI# !)
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To: Yosemitest

To paraphrase China’s opinion today on Apple:

B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, is arrogant, does not care about Americans, and needs more adult supervision.


22 posted on 04/02/2013 11:52:01 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

He’d make an excellent organ doner, and his brain to science should be the first to go.


23 posted on 04/02/2013 12:04:05 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

Are you SURE that his brain hasn’t gone already? There seems to be CHOOM for doubt - - - .


24 posted on 04/02/2013 12:29:52 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Graewoulf

You might be right, all those experimental drugs during his college years ....


25 posted on 04/02/2013 12:40:19 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: TurboZamboni

The Chinese will announce the results of their five-year study next week.


26 posted on 04/02/2013 12:48:10 PM PDT by upchuck (Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
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