Hitting "Mute" on the Ocean Engg professors' brain

Ah...I'd have just loved to do that. Seriously !! on all those 4 profs who blabbered on and on in the 40 x 4 odd classes i had in that department.. and made me listen to 75% of those.. ! read on

TMS: The brain's mute button
The Michael Bay Verizon FiOS Commercial we're parodying is all over YouTube.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) isn't only used to turn off the speech center of the brain, as depicted in the video accompanying the Daily Telegraph article that John highlights in this episode—it's also useful in therapeutic contexts. For example, it can be used to treat depression.

Naturally, Gawker Media sci-fi blog Io9 does its best to imagine the most dystopian way this treatment could possibly be used. The psychiatrist behind Corpus Callosum recently posted a good roundup of what's new in TMS.

Am sorry..but that damned sciam-monitor website doesn't tell me an obvious way to embed that video here.. Please go there and see the video for yourself.

Don't forget to list the people whom you would like to use this upon !