Wednesday, September 29, 2021

How the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19: A Darwinian perspective

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From the current issue of PNAS that just appeared I want to immediately pass on the entire text of the  open source piece by Emanuel Goldman...
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Monday, September 27, 2021

Models of how political polarization happens

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I want to recommend the article " Modeling the power of polarization " by Waldrop in the Sept. 14th PNAS (open source). I pass on...
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Friday, September 24, 2021

Asymptomatic infection is the pandemic’s dark matter

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Fisman and Tuite do a commentary on the article by Sah et al. (open source) that includes a great graphic showing how estimated asymptomat...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Is self awareness a mirage?

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David Brooks does a brief psychological essay - a sequel to one described in MindBlog's Sept. 10 post . One of the most unsettling fi...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Secure human attachment can promote support for climate change mitigation

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From Misa et al. :  Significance Attachment theory focuses on the primal form of emotional bonding between humans. Attachment is conceptua...

Monday morning tonic - A modern folk song about your brain

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Ryan Stotland, a song writer from Montreal, has pointed me to a few of his engaging pieces, and I pass on one of them to you . It rhapsodize...
Friday, September 17, 2021

How social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe

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From Van Doesum et al. (open source) I pass on the abstract, one figure, and a clip of the discussion: Significance Cooperation is key t...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Domestic dogs: Born human whisperers

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Vignieri does a summary of recent work by  Bray et al. and Salomans et al. in Current Biology   The closest relative to dogs, “man’s bes...
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Monday, September 13, 2021

The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony -

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I pass on this Science.org summary of the virtual awards ceremony . Musical cats, upside-down rhinos, and submarine cockroaches took th...
Friday, September 10, 2021

You Are Not Who You Think You Are

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I want to point to the NYTimes piece by polymath David Brooks that does a nice summary of several themes that have been emphasized in MindB...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2021

Ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions

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Interesting work from Verissimo et al. : Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong expe...
Monday, September 06, 2021

A test of plasticity-based cognitive training in treating mild traumatic brain injury

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A study from Mahncke et al. (open source) shows that using a computerized cognitive training program that I have mentioned in previous Mind...
Friday, September 03, 2021

Babbling bats

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An interesting piece from Fernandez et al. : Babbling is a production milestone in infant speech development. Evidence for babbling in non...
Wednesday, September 01, 2021

The neuroinflammation collection: a review of neuro-immune crosstalk

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Irani et al. (open source) offer a compact and concise review that highlights publications in Brain over the past several years as a focal ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Two Americas

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I've been trying to dial down MindBlog's mention of our current domestic turmoil and debate, but I can't resist passing on this ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

NPR's "Joy Generator"

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Try this antidote if you have the Sunday blahs.
Friday, August 27, 2021

Douthat's Guide to Finding Faith

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I recommend that you read through Douthat's elegant exposition of the continuing relevance of some form of religious faith. I paste in...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Well-being of the aging brain - from the Univ.of Wisc. Center for Healty Minds

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I am a supporter of the Center for Healthy Minds  at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which was established and is lead by one of my fo...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Research experiences and social justice

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In the Editor's Choice section of the July 23 issue of Science Magazine Melissa McCarntney does a brief description of a biomedical re...
Friday, August 20, 2021

YouTube algorithms do not appear to drive attention to radical content.

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From Hosseinmardi et al. ;   Significance Daily share of news consumption on YouTube, a social media platform with more than 2 billion m...