Good morning.
It’s a sunny day ahead for Whitewater today, with a high of seventy-eight.
There’s a Police Commission meeting tonight at 6 p.m. The agenda is available online.
Well, it’s a game five in the Brewers-Diamondbacks series, although I erroneously thought the Brewers would win in four. That leaves the 27.03% who answered last week’s poll that they’d win in five, or the 10.81% who answered that this wasn’t their year, with a chance to be right about how the series will go.
Scientists at Duke University are working to create artificial limbs for people so that recipients will be able to feel the sensation of touch when using those prosthetics. A step in that research involves testing the technology on primates. The Duke researchers have had preliminary success with animals. See, Monkeys Control Virtual Limbs With Their Minds:
Although real-life brain-controlled prosthetics that enable a person to, say, pick up a pencil continue to improve for amputees, limbs that can actually feel touch sensations have remained a challenge. Now, by implanting electrodes into both the motor and the sensory areas of the brain, researchers have created a virtual prosthetic hand that monkeys control using only their minds, and that enables them to feel virtual textures.