Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Digital addiction and the attention economy.

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Jia Tolentino's " What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away " is a broad essay on our digital addictions that focuses on two recent...
Monday, April 29, 2019

A bit of digital detox - rehearsing a Mendelssohn Piano Trio

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I have been fortunate to find in Austin TX two accomplished string players, violinist Andrea Gore and cellist Karen Foster Cason, who join m...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Bringing dead brains back to life.

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Work by Vrselja et al. on restoring brain function in pigs four hours after death has been extensively covered by the popular press. I want...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Factfulness - Rosling's instinctual mental errors - Destiny, Single Perspective, Blame, Urgency

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This is the final installment of several posts for my own benefit - making brief clips from the Rosling "Factfullness" book to en...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Factfulness - Rosling's instinctual mental errors - Fear, Size, Generalization

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I'm continuing posts for my own benefit - making brief clips from the Rosling "Factfullness" book to encapsulate what he call...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Factfulness - Rosling's instinctual mental errors - Gap, Negativity, Straight Line

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I'm doing this and a few subsequent posts for my own benefit - making brief clips from the Rosling "Factfullness" book descr...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Factfulness - Hans Rosling - Introduction

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I have just had a read through the book “Factfulness” written by Hans Rosling together with his son and daughter, published in early 2018, v...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Return of the oppressed.

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An article written by Peter Turchin in 2013 notes that inequality moves in cycles, from the Roman Empire to our own Gilded Age, and he give...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

New microscopy technique sees thousands of cells and their activity deep in the brain

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Weisenberger et al. manage the amazing feat of imaging and recording activity of ~12,000 neurons in the mouse cortex. Here is their abstrac...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

McMindfulness - how capitalism captured the mindfulness industry

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A great piece in The Guardian by David Forbes, an extract from his forthcoming book "Mindfulness and its Discontents" from which ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

The New York Times Privacy Project

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Many MindBlog readers are probably aware of the NYTimes series of articles on privacy , but I point to it for those who may not be. A recent...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Changes in well-being measured by massive online choice experiments.

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Brynjolfsson et al. (open source) suggest moving beyond using gross domestic product (GDP) and productivity as a proxy for well-being to in...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Tracking emotions of unseen persons by their context.

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Martinez does a commentary on work by Chen and Whitney (open source) in the same issue of PNAS.  Here is a clip from that commentary: F...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Studies on brain renewal and enhancement

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I want to point to two recent examples of studies on brain renewal in aging humans and other animals. First, a Stanford group finds that th...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Synchronizing rhythmic brain circuits improves working memory in older adults.

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Our short term memory depends on theta rhythms (~6-10 Hz) and gamma rhythms (~25-100 Hz) in different parts of our brain being coupled and i...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Affective forecasting and partisanship

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Rai summaries work by Dorison et al. : Increasing political polarization is driven in part by voters selectively seeking views that suppo...
Monday, April 08, 2019

"Learned Helplessness" from constant attention to your input stream (email, etc.)?

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I'm trying out a 'new rule' for myself (cf. the Real Time with Bill Maher show on HBO). I frequently wake with some new ideas th...
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Friday, April 05, 2019

The life prospects of female co-twins are diminished by prenatal testosterone from their male twins.

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From Bütikofe et al. : During sensitive periods in utero, gonadal steroids help organize biological sex differences in humans and other mam...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

One mechanism of a basic life choice - to ‘go for it’ or to ‘scram’

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Miller et al . use a variety of methods to find subpopulations of dopamine sensitive neurons in the amygdala of mice, projecting to differen...
Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Students of color are healthier in schools that emphasize the value of diversity

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From Levine et al. : Significance The United States is increasingly diverse, especially among youth. At the same time, racial and ethni...