Friday, February 26, 2021

The life cycle of a new social network

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Kevin Roose does an interesting article on Clubhouse, the hot new audio social network, which has a nice chunk of writing I want to pass on...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Train Yourself to be Happy

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Walter Scott's series of cartoons in The New Yorker that puts my bloviating on similar topics to shame. Here is just one in his series...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Music and Medicine

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Amy McDermott does an open source article on how music is increasingly being employed as a medical therapy. Here are some clips from the ar...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Real-time talking with dreamers during REM sleep

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A fascinating new window for reserach on dreaming has been opened by four collaborating but independent laboratory groups. The summary of t...
Monday, February 22, 2021

So...whatcha gonna offer me for this cell phone I stole from you?

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Macaque monkeys have learned how to drive a hard bargain.They have learned to barter for food with humans to return stolen possessions accor...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Why cats like catnip...

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Interesting work from Uenoyama et al. : Domestic cats and other felids rub their faces and heads against catnip (Nepeta cataria) and silve...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

MindBlog Outage

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Greetings from Austin Texas, where I live. Winter storm Texas can't handle. Third day of massive power outage, looks like at least one m...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

The gut microbiome can instruct brain cells to fight neuroinflammation.

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I perk up whenever I see a reference relevant to 'inflamaging,' the slow rise of cellular inflammation that accompanies - as I am to...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts

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From Kubin et al. in PNAS:  Significance All Americans are affected by rising political polarization, whether because of a gridlocked Con...
Friday, February 12, 2021

You've gotta watch this - A billion year journey of Earth's tectonic plates

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The article by Andrews in the New York Times describes the history of tectonic plate theory and brings into vivid focus how us humans are j...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

MindBlog keeps the blood pumping

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Discussion of the therapeutic effects of exercise has been one of the topic threads in MindBlog since its beginning...reporting effects of d...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths

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A fascinating open source article by Luhrmann et al. showing that what feels real to our senses is shaped by our culture. Significance Th...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

How LSD tweaks our brain synapses to promote social behavior.

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For the subset of MindBlog readers that is into the detailed Neuroscience of our behavior, I pass on an interesting article by De Gregorio e...
Monday, February 08, 2021

Timing matters when correcting fake news

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 From Brashier et al. : Countering misinformation can reduce belief in the moment, but corrective messages quickly fade from memory. We tes...
Friday, February 05, 2021

MindBlog's 15th birthday

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Mindblog has been chugging along for 15 years, it's contents reflecting what I find interesting and am reading about at the moment. It s...
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Thursday, February 04, 2021

Moonstruck sleep: Synchronization of human sleep with the moon cycle

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From Casiraghi et al. : Before the availability of artificial light, moonlight was the only source of light sufficient to stimulate nightti...
Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Underlying forces that are determining America's future governance.

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I want to pass on clips from a few recent commentaries on current dissonances in U.S. politics and governance. I've collected these as b...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2021

A brief afternoon nap is probably good for your brain.

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On some days I feel midafternoon drowsyness that makes it difficult for me to think or write. I lie down and do "a 10 minute naplet.&qu...
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Monday, February 01, 2021

The Coup We Are Not Talking About - an article of foundational importance

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In a long, heavy, and scary article Shoshana Zuboff argues , in concert with similar sentiments in Harari's books, that we can have demo...
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Friday, January 29, 2021

Experienced well-being does increase above incomes of $75,000/year

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A research report from Matthew Killingsworth that contradicts a generally accepted result of past research:   Significance Past research...