Re-release: Mind-Reading, Universe’s Brightest Object, Cinnamon

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about mind-reading machines, the brightest object in the known universe, and the potential power punch of cinnamon.

Mind-Reading

•“Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets.” by Miryam Naddaf. 2024.

•“The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch.” by Liam Drew. 2022.

•“The rise of brain-reading technology: what you need to know.” by Liam Drew. 2023.

•“How our brains decode speech: special neurons process certain sounds.” by Saima Sidik. 2023.

Universe’s Brightest Object

•“Astronomers discover universe’s brightest object - a quasar powered by a black hole that eats a sun a day.” by Tory Shepherd. 2024.

•“What is a quasar?” by Andy Briggs. 2021.

•“Revealed: the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe.” by Hannah Devlin. 2023.

Cinnamon

•“Cinnamon supplements reduce blood glucose in people with prediabetes.” by Dani Mann. 2024.

•“Cinnamon and Diabetes.” n.a. 2023.

•“Prediabetes (Borderline Diabetes).” by Mike Watts. 2022.

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0:31.4	where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:33.9	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back.
0:35.7	Today, you'll learn about mind-reading machines,
0:38.7	the brightest object in the known universe, and the potential power punch of cinnamon.
0:44.7	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. Of all the wild new technological advances
0:50.2	making headlines these days, some of the most incredible, hard-to-believe straight out of sci-fi, have to do with BCIs or brain-computer interfaces.
0:58.9	Oh, boy, yeah. With AI, large language models and neural networks making such huge leaps, the massively complicated piles of data scientists gather from our brains is starting to actually make sense.
1:12.1	And we've talked a lot about these brain computer interfaces on past shows.
1:15.9	Scientists have implanted sensors on the surface of the brain and the results have been
1:19.5	amazing. One patient, for example, who was paralyzed from a spinal injury, was able to open and
1:24.4	close a prosthetic hand and control a robotic arm.
1:35.0	Oh, right. The interface basically read his mind. It assessed his motor impulses and put them into action in the prosthetic arm. Exactly. And another patient with ALS, a motor neuron disease that
1:41.0	left him unable to speak, was fitted with a brain computer interface
1:44.2	that could understand his thoughts and turn them into speech.
1:46.9	And he's not the only one.
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