"Trying hard not to become obsolete."

This is an interesting article about the future of human intelligence in relation to computers, that was in yesterday's science section of the New York Times.

And this is a crazy, can't-believe-this-is-really-happening article about how they can now use the neurons from rat brains to run computers. And the craziest part is that if they use brains from different rats each computer has a distinct and unique personality!