HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION: THE SPECIAL ROLE FOR HUMAN UNCONSCIOUS INFORMATION PROCESSING
By Maurits van den Noort
Http://www.mauritsvandennoort.blogspot.com/
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Albert Einstein
*The results that will be presented in this paper might surprise scientists who have a more conservative view on quantum physics and cognitive neuroscience. I would like to emphasize that this paper is only a first step into a new scientific direction and I can also be completely wrong…
An international team of astronomers reports today confirmation of the discovery of a giant planet, approximately five times the mass of Jupiter, that is gravitationally bound to a young brown dwarf. This puts an end to a year long discussion on the nature of this object, which started with the detection of a red object close to the brown dwarf.
When the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series title since 1918 last year, the team had some new blood, including key players Curt Schilling, Orlando Cabrera and Doug Mientkiewicz, to mix with the old and help the team achieve the pinnacle of baseball success. In a new paper, researchers turned to a different type of team — creative teams in the arts and sciences — to determine a team’s recipe for success. They discovered that the composition of a great team is the same whether you are working on Broadway or in economics.
In East Africa, where days of heavy rains and flooding have led to numerous deaths and entire villages being wiped out, locals are reporting an unprecedented rise in Somalia’s Shabelle River and that a major water surge may be headed into the centre of the country, the United Nations said today.
Scientists have concluded more energy is being absorbed from the sun than is emitted back to space, throwing the Earth’s energy “out of balance” and warming the globe. Scientists from NASA, Columbia University, New York, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. used satellites, data from buoys and computer models to study the Earth’s oceans. They confirmed the energy imbalance by using precise measurements of increasing ocean heat content over the past 10 years. 
Many men who have consumed alcohol while on dates or at parties know it can have a significant impact on their night. Sometimes a few drinks can make them more sociable or fuel their sexual arousal, while other times it can make them sick, tired and unable to perform sexually. It also can produce what are called “beer goggles,” which causes people who are intoxicated to judge others as more attractive than they are. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have found that just the mere exposure to words that describe alcohol can increase the male sex drive.
Communities can decrease alcohol-related fatal crashes by providing better access to substance abuse treatment while reducing the availability of alcohol in the community, according to a new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
A severe allergic reaction to a medication robbed Elma Phifer of her vision two decades ago when she was 39. The reaction scarred her corneas and reduced the ability of her eyes to soothe their damaged surfaces by remaining moist. Now, twenty years later, Elma is able to see again, thanks to the implantation of an artificial cornea into one of her eyes.
Kids who are still missing a few front teeth may find it hard to take a bite of a big, juicy apple. And apple slices, though easier for youngsters–and adults–to eat, typically turn brown and unappealing in a few hours. But an invisible, vitamin-and-mineral based coating scientists have developed preserves refrigerated apple slices for up to 28 days. 
The proportion of children who were given an antibiotic specifically to treat otitis media, a commonly diagnosed ear condition, declined from 14.4 percent in 1996 to 11.5 percent in 2001, according to new data from HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The data also showed declines in both the percentage of children reported to have otitis media and the percentage of children whose parents sought treatment for the condition.
Long believed to be extinct, a magnificent bird — the ivory-billed woodpecker — has been rediscovered in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas. More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United States, a research team today announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest.
New research shows that farmers who used agricultural insecticides experienced increased neurological symptoms, even when they were no longer using the products. Data from18,782 North Carolina and Iowa farmers linked use of insecticides, including organophosphates and organochlorines, to reports of reoccurring headaches, fatigue, insomnia, dizziness, nausea, hand tremors, numbness and other neurological symptoms. Some of the insecticides addressed by the study are still on the market, but some, including DDT, have been banned or restricted.
Researchers who previously pinpointed the genetic cause of a rare but severe form of cardiac arrhythmia that affects children have now identified a second, closely related mutation that also causes the disease. Children with Timothy syndrome have a range of problems, including congenital heart disease, immune deficiency, intermittent low blood sugar, cognitive abnormalities, and autism. They also show a characteristic webbing, or syndactyly, of the hands and feet.
From computer simulations that produce El Nino-like climate cycles to molten rock making big earthquakes bigger, the American Geophysical Union’s April highlights contain a bunch of cool new papers. Try the “Day After Tomorrow”-like “Ocean cycling depends on small salinity differences,” or have a go with “Antarctic glaciers shrinking due to ice shelf collapse.” Who knew geosciences could be so fun?
Biomedical engineers have built a device to quickly detect mild traumatic brain injury in the heat of sports competition, on the battlefield, in the emergency room, and in other situations where time is of the essence.
