X-Message-Number: 22221
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:45:42 -0700
Subject: Re: non-invasive brain temperature monitoring
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From:  (Tim Freeman)

>see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/07/030716085941.htm
>
>Yale Researcher Discovers 'Brain Temperature Tunnel' That For The
>First Time Allows External Continuous Measurement Of Brain
>Temperature

The article says: "His research shows that this area is connected to a
thermal storage center in the brain, and the area has the thinnest
skin and the highest amount of light energy".  Lots of things in here
set off my BS detector:

1. Unless you're dismembered, everything's connected to everything
   else.
2. What's a "thermal storage center"?  Why does the brain need to store heat?
3. What does it mean for skin to have the "highest amount of light
   energy"?  Highest amongst what set of objects?  Is he saying he has
   noticed a glowing patch of skin that everyone else has missed?
4. The thickness of the bone is surely quite important too, so the thinness
   of the skin doesn't seem relevant.

If he just said the skin patch tended to be the same temperature as
the brain, presumably because of good blood flow between them, I'd be
happy with that.  But talk of thermal storage centers and light energy
is technobabble.

-- 
Tim Freeman                                                  
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