Yesterday, I was texting my friend. I have seriously cut down on my term of racial euphemism, but referred to a “black.” Was it racist? Sorta? Maybe.

But things got more hilarious.

At the very time I texted that, one of my black friends IMed me, and a black co-worker walked in on my friend.

There is, of course, only one logical conclusion that can be drawn from this: Black people can tell when someone is talking racist. No matter what.

It could be referred to as the “sixth sense,” the ability to have an uncanny sense of racism.

Theres an ongoing campaign to change whatever the current terminology is toward a racial minority into an unacceptable term. “a black” and “a gay” are starting to sound out of place because politically correct terms have been pushed on us so when they’re not used they raise suspicion from paranoid people and those people usually translate suspicion into certitude so – tadaaa – youza RACIST. and everyone can feel it through the thought-grid we’re all plugged into..

Coming soon: Actual Mind Reading?

Researchers demonstrated that the brain breaks down words into complex patterns of electrical activity, which can be decoded and translated back into an approximate version of the original sound.

Because the brain is believed to process thought in a similar way to sound, scientists hope the breakthrough could lead to an implant which can interpret imagined speech in patients who cannot talk.

Believe it, son…

By breaking down the conversation into its component sounds, they were able to build two computer models which matched distinct signals in the brain to individual sounds.
They then tested the models by playing a recording of a single word to the patients, and predicting from the brain activity what the word they had heard was.

The better of the two programmes was able to produce a close enough approximation of the word that scientists could guess what it was, from a list of two options, 90 per cent of the time.

The summary: The brain of an addicted smoker treats nicotine as if it is essential for survival. Genetic traits may predispose some smokers to stronger addiction. Most smokers try to quit unaided, resulting in a high failure rate.

If you smoke, no one needs to tell you how bad it is. So why haven’t you quit? Why hasn’t everyone?

Because smoking feels good. It stimulates and focuses the mind at the same time that it soothes and satisfies. The concentrated dose of nicotine in a drag off a cigarette triggers an immediate flood of dopamine and other neurochemicals that wash over the brain’s pleasure centers. Inhaling tobacco smoke is the quickest, most efficient way to get nicotine to the brain.

“I completely understand why you wouldn’t want to give it up,” said Dr. David Abrams, an addiction researcher at the National Institutes of Health. “It’s more difficult to get off nicotine than heroin or cocaine.”

Smoking “hijacks” the reward systems in the brain that drive you to seek food, water and sex, Dr. Abrams explained, driving you to seek nicotine with the same urgency. “Your brain thinks that this has to do with survival of the species,” he said.