Friday, May 29, 2020

Brain connectivity fingerprinting of complex human personality traits - another tool for the surveillance state?

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A group of researchers in the Department of Radiology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, find that resting-state functional connecti...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

An explanation for human synesthesia

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Fascinating work from Maurer et al. : Synesthesia is a neurologic trait in which specific inducers, such as sounds, automatically elicit ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Social animals need connection for health and survival

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Snyder-Mackler et al. have reviewed the relationships between social environment and many aspects of health and well-being across nonhuman...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

The obsolescence of three core operating systems that have shaped civilization for the past 350 years

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I want to pass on a quotations from the beginning and end of Roger Cohen's essay on how honestly - on the 75th anniversary of the end o...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Rules for identifying your life's work.

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During this time of virtual or postponed college graduations, Arthur Brooks does a relevant installment in his bi-weekly series for Atlanti...
Friday, May 22, 2020

AI for social good: Well meaning gobbledegook

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I pass on this link to a my-eyes-glaze-over open access perspective on international efforts to use artificial intelligence for social good...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Ketogenic diet enhances brain network stability, a biomarker of aging

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Mujica-Parodi et al. make observations suggesting that diets that changes the predominant dietary fuel from glucose (from carbohydrates) to...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

How Social Networks are destroying democracy.

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In the December 2019 issue of The Atlantic Haidt and Rose-Stockwell offer a must-read article titled "The Dark Psychology of Social Ne...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Closing the gap between mind and brain - The dynamic connectome and psilocybin

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Quiroga summaries elegant work by Kringelbach et al. , ...who provide a framework for incorporating into the connectome the dynamic var...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

Anti-Intellectualism, Populism, and Motivated Resistance to Expert Consensus

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I want to pass on the abstract from Eric Merkley's article in Public Opinion Quarterly. I fervently hope that the anti-intellectuals he...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Meet the psychobiome

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Elizabeth Pennisi does a piece on the search for new brain drugs in human poop, generated by the ~ 2 kilograms of bacteria, fungi, viruses,...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Arthur Brooks on "The Hero's Journey" and retirement

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In the most recent installment of Arthur Brooks’ biweekly column in The Atlantic, which I suggest that you read, he talks about the classic...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Young blood plasma reverses the epigenetic aging clock.

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Perhaps the best molecular biomarker of aging at present is the epigenetic clock, developed by Horvath and others, based on measurements of ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Take the shutdown skeptics seriously.

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I have been holding back from doing posts on the current pandemic, since it completely dominates the popular press. However, I want to pass ...
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Monday, May 11, 2020

Self, purpose, and tribal mentality as Darwinian adaptations (or…Why why aren’t we all enlightened?)

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This is a post like the one I offered on March 13 that passes on a bit of writing that I think might develop into a longer piece of work. I...
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Friday, May 08, 2020

Infant behavioral inhibition predicts personality and social outcomes three decades later

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From Tang et al. : Significance Children show different temperamental styles early in development. Whether temperament predicts who ch...
Thursday, May 07, 2020

Future of the Human climate niche

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Sobering analysis from Xu et al. : Significance We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow...
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science

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From Hofstra et al :   Significance By analyzing data from nearly all US PhD recipients and their dissertations across three decades,...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

The cultural origins of metacognition.

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I want to pass on this open source article in Trends in Cognitive Science by Heyes et al. Their summary: Highlights Human metacogniti...
Monday, May 04, 2020

Rising workplace inequalities in high-income countries.

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From Tomaskovic-Devey et al .: Significance Understanding the causes of rising inequality is of concern in many countries. Using admini...