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What disease did a 19-year-old American cure by shooting himself in the head?

A 19-year-old American named George, unable to bear his obsessive-compulsive disorder, expressed in obsessive desires to constantly wash his hands, tried to commit suicide in 1983. However, the shot to the head did not cause him much harm - on the contrary, the bullet touched only the part of the left anterior part of the brain, which was "guilty" of his mania. This same part of the brain is sometimes surgically removed when other treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder have been exhausted. George returned to a normal life, found a job, and a few years later went to college.

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There are many different causes of baldness. But in most cases, a person cannot control this process. There is no simple cure for baldness. People name various causes of baldness: aging, unusually high intellectual development, or, conversely, stupidity. But the real cause of baldness is that a person loses their hair!

Structural alopecia is the most common. Hair begins to fall out at the temples or at the crown. Baldness can also appear in other places. This is the most difficult type of hair loss. Nothing can be done about it, as it is a hereditary trait. The inheritance of structural baldness varies by gender. Baldness is more common in men than in women. Very often, women carry the gene that controls baldness and pass this trait on to their children. When this type of baldness shows up, the best thing for a person to do is get used to it!

In men, premature baldness can appear by the age of 25 or even earlier. One of the reasons for such baldness may be the lack of proper care of the scalp, keeping it clean, etc. An imbalance of sex hormones can lead to premature baldness. Taking care of your scalp right away can slow down this kind of hair loss.

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The JEDEC standard specifies a supply voltage of 4 volts for DDR1,2 memory modules in the frequency range from 1600 to 3200 MHz. But many branded DDR4 kits designed for overclocking enthusiasts can operate at the manufacturer's declared frequency only at 1,5 volts, which is a lot for DDR4. Since the memory controller in all modern processors, including Haswell-E, is built-in, excessive enthusiasm for increasing the memory supply voltage can end in tears not only for the modules, but also for the processor itself, and even the most risky overclocker will hardly like the loss of a brand new "stone" worth $1000 .

Kingston seems to understand this well. Its pre-sale samples of HyperX DDR4 modules worked at a supply voltage of 1,5 volts, but the company conducted a study, as a result of which it turned out that 1,35 volts would be sufficient for the normal functioning of these modules. Mass shipping of the HyperX DDR4 series will begin this week, and the company says that the maximum value programmed into their SPD will be just that.

According to Intel engineers, 1,5 volts is not a critical memory supply voltage for Haswell-E, since their controller is capable of operating in two modes, and for DDR3 this supply voltage is standard. However, there are extreme versions of DDR3 memory kits on sale that require 1,65 volts. A number of cases of failure of Haswell-E processors and motherboards based on the Intel X99 chipset have already been recorded on the Web, but it is not known what was to blame - the "childhood illness" of the new platform or excessive flirting with clock frequencies and supply voltages.

In any case, Kingston's initiative looks reasonable, because a lower memory supply voltage means not only reliability, but also increased efficiency.

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