A year ago, she had a good job at a bank in the suburbs. Her 10-year-old son had a safe home.
But then the world came crashing down when she lost her job and, afterward, her house. Soon, they were living in her car.
That’s when a knight in shining armor showed up — a homeless man who wanted to repay the woman’s previous kindness to him. With money he collected from pedestrians, he started paying for a hotel room, so she and her son could stay off the streets.
He’s collected thousands of dollars since September and donated it all to her.
She is grateful that, after years of giving her own money to charities and treating homeless panhandlers with respect and dignity, “an angel was waiting for me” in the end.
, released in April.
Doctors have been using electrocorticography, or ECoG, since the 1950s to figure out which area of the brain is causing seizures. But now, by placing the array of sensors directly on the brain and connecting them to a computer, researchers are able to control robotic arms, and even determine which word a person is imagining.
