{"id":471,"date":"2004-11-06T04:40:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/06\/need-language-sk1llz-just-hook-me-up-t"},"modified":"2004-11-06T04:40:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T09:40:44","slug":"need-language-sk1llz-just-hook-me-up-to-the-power-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/06\/need-language-sk1llz-just-hook-me-up-to-the-power-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Need language sk1llz?  Just hook me up to the power generator!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a433'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n Nature is reporting a study where a researcher is putting a very small<br \/>\n volt across a certain part of the brain and measuring the ability of<br \/>\n people to recall a series of words.  It seems it does help them with<br \/>\n their language skills but call me skeptical.  I&#8217;m sure all the<br \/>\n futurists will be dreaming up of future inventions where you can just<br \/>\n put something next to your head and *zap* You&#8217;ve Got Hindi.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Perhaps, but the study needs at least 10-15 years of active watching to<br \/>\n see if there aren&#8217;t any nasty side effects like uh.. rewiring the brain<br \/>\n in a BAD direction or something like cancer.  Just because they claim<br \/>\n it&#8217;s safe for short discharges now doesn&#8217;t mean repeated exposure over<br \/>\n a long period of time is safe.  In the meantime, I&#8217;ll stick with the<br \/>\n tried and true method of learning a language.   Perseverance and work.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2004\/041025\/full\/041025-9.html\">Read it myself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature is reporting a study where a researcher is putting a very small volt across a certain part of the brain and measuring the ability of people to recall a series of words. It seems it does help them with their language skills but call me skeptical. I&#8217;m sure all the futurists will be dreaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}