Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Culture of Empathy

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While approving comments submitted on a MindBlog post, I always go back and read the post. (I have to vet comments, because most are designe...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Computerized Gaydar - a threat to privacy and safety of gay people

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My Oct. 13, 2017 post dealt with controversy over an  article referenced as forthcoming that showed neural networks to be more accurate th...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Amygdala structure and defense of the social system.

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Nam et al. examine the neuroanatomical substrates of preferences for maintaining existing social arrangements. Individual variation in pre...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Our microbiome challenges our concept of self.

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Rees et al. offer an interesting perspective on the significance of our microbiome. Their abstract: Today, the three classical biological...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

When our eyes move, our eardrums move.

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Interesting stuff from Gruters et al. : S ignificance The peripheral hearing system contains several motor mechanisms that allow the br...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Human cooperation in dynamic networks.

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Melamed et al. show that the emergence of cooperative networks of humans does not require knowledge of the reputations of participants, onl...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Welcome to the post text future (of the new authoritarian state?)

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White males (and the republican party) seem to perceive that the most effective way to maintain their current prominence as they continue to...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Ancient origins of walking on land - the walking skate.

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From Jung et al. , in the Feb. 8 issue of Cell, report finding that the circuits underlying vertebrate ambulation on dry land appear in a sk...
Friday, February 16, 2018

Computers no better than humans at predicting who should go to jail.

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I want to point to two pieces that offer a commentary on our trust in using algorithms to predict human behavior rather than old fashioned h...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Afraid of A.I.? Be very afraid of quantum computing....

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Several recent articles point to a quiet revolution that is receiving relatively little notice - the development of quantum computers that m...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

A Valentine's Day musical offering - Respighi's Intermezzo Serenata

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A piano transcription by Respighi of the Intermezzo Serenata from his comic opera Re Enzo.  Making a recording of a piano piece I like motiv...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Mind treats on the web.

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This MindBlog is a miniscule drop in a large internet pond of excellent and interesting sites describing new mind research and ideas. I am ...
Monday, February 12, 2018

“The rich are different from you and me..” - the psychology of inequality

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In the mythical exchange between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway responds “Yes, they have more money.” Who are ‘they’?...
Friday, February 09, 2018

Our body tissues crosstalk during exercise.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to fascinating work showing that exercise causes cells to release tiny lipid coated hollow spheres (vesicles) con...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

A Thursday musical offering... Charles Meyer - Valse Melancolique

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Under the 'random curious stuff' in MindBlog's subtitle, above, I've decided to resume recording some of the pieces that I e...
Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Brain correlates of our ability to think creatively

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I am passing on the significance statements (the links take you to the whole abstracts) from two fascinating pieces on the brain correlates ...
Tuesday, February 06, 2018

MindBlog's 12th anniversary. Blogs as relics or rebirths?

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Today marks the 12th anniversary of MindBlog's start.  In yesterday's MindBlog post I passed on Andrew Sullivan's comments on t...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

The blogging golden age

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I want to pass on this piece of writing from a series of commentaries posted by Andrew Sullivan at New York Magazine. He suggests that the ...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Mental autonomy - developing a ‘culture of consciousness’.

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One of MindBlog's threads has been presentation and discussion of work on the default mode network of our brains that mediates our mind ...
Thursday, February 01, 2018

How to goose your memory.

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The abstract from Inman et al. , "Direct electrical stimulation of the amygdala enhances declarative memory in humans." They show ...