Tipping Point Quick Hits (11.12.20)

A brain-computer connection, knowing a child's gender, and Canadian conversion therapy

In late October, a team of scientists and engineers announced that they had successfully connected a human brain to a computer using electrodes threaded through a blood vessel. The science and technology magazine WIRED reported on the experiment:

The electrodes snuggled into the vessel wall and started sensing when the people’s brains signaled their inte…