http://www.michaelchorost.com Michael Chorost, author of <i>Rebuilt</i>, on cochlear implants Tue, 06 May 2008 16:41:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My latest article, Living in Stereo, has just been published by The Journal of Life Sciences. This story is about my getting a second cochlear implant, or "going bilateral," as we say. Careful readers of this blog will notice I've used (and heavily revised) some material from postings ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/04/18/living-in-stereo/ Confessions of a Bionic Man is the title of a Washington Post opinion piece I've just published in the Sunday edition of April 13th. It starts this way: "If I were catapulted back in time to 1978, in many ways I'd find it easy to adjust. Cars would still be ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/04/12/confessions-of-a-bionic-man/ From today's New York Times: "New Therapies Fight Phantom Noises of Tinnitus." I'd no idea that so much progress had been made. It also talks about fMRI imaging, a technology I've been reading about a lot lately. http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/04/01/fascinating-article-on-tinnitus/ I rode shotgun as Josh Swiller spoke at the California A.G. Bell's annual conference in Milpitas last Saturday. Josh had texted me the day before that there'd be protestors there. I'd texted back, "Nobody ever pickets my speeches. Some guys have all the luck." A. G. ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/03/26/we-all-sleep-in-silence/ My latest story for Technology Review, The Networked Pill, came out this morning. It's about a company named Proteus Biomedical that's developing a pill that tells sensors mounted on the body that it's been swallowed. The sensors record the time and monitor the body's responses to the medication, such ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/03/20/the-networked-pill/ ...in which I'm quoted. It's a fascinating story about the emerging prospect of replacing old cochlear implants with new models. Till now this subject has been more or less taboo, with the assumption that implantation is a one-shot deal: the implant you get is the one you will ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/03/17/the-economist-has-an-excellent-story-on-upgrading-cochlear-implants/ Update: It looks like KQED will air "Pop Music", the Radiolab show in which I'm interviewed, at 8pm today, Pacific Time, March 5th. You can go to the KQED website at that time and click on the "Listen Live" icon about halfway down the page. The show's about earworms ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/03/05/in-which-i-talk-about-musical-hallucinations-updated/ My latest Technology Review article, Helping the Deaf Hear Music, came out today. This piece is about a new test, the Clinical Assessment of Music Perception (CAMP), that's been developed by Jay Rubinstein and his colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Iowa. It measures ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/02/26/the-cosmic-rule-those-who-write-get-written-about/ Dear readers, I've been running silent for a while because I had two deadlines last week, for Technology Review and The Journal of Life Sciences. I was also sick with a cold. But the stories will interest you, and I'll post links to them when they come out. ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/02/25/just-letting-you-know-im-still-here/ Windows is the operating system of the PC, but Google is quickly becoming the operating system of the world. I've found that I can't write anymore without Google. I probably do five or six searches each hour, looking up various facts. So I spent a good deal of ... http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2008/02/13/visiting-google-and-all-that-jazz/