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SANSHOOL. "Czechuan peppers contain hydroxy-alpha-sanshool that imparts desirable tingling, cooling, and numbing sensations (which) activates a subset of sensory dorsal root ganglion neurons." https://lnkd.in/eaCeKAW View in LinkedIn

CHEMESTHESIS. The human tongue is "also sensitive to temperature, pressure, and chemicals that mimic both of these things, which turn up in a number of foods. This peculiar latter group of sensations is called chemesthesis, and you probably experience some flavour of it every day. One of the strangest examples is the Szechuan peppercorn, a staple of Asian cooking. You know when it's been sprinkled over a dish because suddenly your mouth begins to tingle gently, while going curiously numb." http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150120-hidden-ways-your-tongue-tastes View in LinkedIn

FIVE HUMAN SENSES. "Aristotle was the first to assign humans with five traditional senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. However, if he was categorizing animals, his list of senses might have been longer. Several animals possess additional perceptive abilities that allow them to experience the world in ways we can barely imagine." https://lnkd.in/efeHCSP View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE this weekend focuses on the human sensation of taste. Taste is central to the fundamental and universal human experience of food. And it has trumped nutrition in recent years. Surprisingly, the experts have changed their minds in this subject in recent time, and we have learned that it is multi-factorial and more complex than we thought for centuries. View in LinkedIn

NEW PEDAGOGY. "improving skill acquisition through transcranial magnetic stimulation, applying current brain research to the classroom experience." http://www.iftf.org/our-work/people-technology/technology-horizons/when-everything-is-programmable/when-everything-is-programmable-forecast-and-technology-cards/ View in LinkedIn

RE-READ THIS ONE. Augmented, dial-up minds, "giving us the power to alter our mental capacities for specific conditions or desires." http://www.iftf.org/our-work/people-technology/technology-horizons/when-everything-is-programmable/when-everything-is-programmable-forecast-and-technology-cards/ View in LinkedIn

AUGMENTED DIAL-UP MINDS. "Brain-computer interfaces, neurofeedback tools, augmented cognition, pharmaceuticals, and targeted brain stimulation are giving us the power to alter our mental capacities for specific conditions or desires." http://www.iftf.org/our-work/people-technology/technology-horizons/when-everything-is-programmable/when-everything-is-programmable-forecast-and-technology-cards/ View in LinkedIn

AUGMENTED THERAPY. "When Everything is Programmable Technology. Therapeutic Forgetting: selectively deleting memories is on the horizon. Augmented Cognition: understanding and overcoming cognitive limitations." http://www.iftf.org/our-work/people-technology/technology-horizons/when-everything-is-programmable/when-everything-is-programmable-forecast-and-technology-cards/ View in LinkedIn

NEW TASTE ADOPTED. "Humans do have receptors for L-glutamate and when something is really, really yummy in a non-sweet, sour, bitter or salty way, that's what you're tasting. In 2002, this became the new view. It's in the textbooks now and scientists decided to call this "new" taste, in Ikeda's honor, "umami." https://lnkd.in/eqJGRM2 View in LinkedIn

REPROGRAMMING BIOLOGY. "At the intersection of the biosciences and engineering, researchers are designing and building living systems that may not exist in nature." http://www.iftf.org/our-work/people-technology/technology-horizons/when-everything-is-programmable/when-everything-is-programmable-forecast-and-technology-cards/ View in LinkedIn