Friday, December 31, 2021

The rise and fall of rationality in language

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Fascinating language analysis from Scheffer et al. that illustrates over the past decades a marked shift in public interest from the collec...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Senolytic therapies for healthy longevity

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An article on increasing longevity by getting rid of senescent cells (cells that have stopped dividing and generate products that accelerat...
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Monday, December 27, 2021

MindBlog gets an extreme comment on Covid

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I've debated on whether it would be better to ignore (and not amplify by passing on) an extreme comment of a sort MindBlog almost never...
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Saturday, December 25, 2021

A musical offering.

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For this day that was central in my Protestant Christian Texas childhood: a performance by the Netherlands Bach Society of the Gloria in Exc...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

What Happened to American Conservatism?

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I want to strongly recommed that you read David Brooks' article on conservatism in the January/February 2022 issue of The Atlantic. I r...
Monday, December 20, 2021

The Point is to Stop - a farewell to self help coaching

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I want to pass on some points, paraphrase, and central clips from what is essentially a swan song offered by Mark Manson in his latest news...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

The active grandparent hypothesis

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Lieberman et al. suggest that selection in humans for lifelong physical activity, including during postreproductive years to provision offs...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

New articles on exercise and the brain

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Gretchen Reynolds has done two recent brief reviews:   The Quiet Brain of the Athlete describes work showing that the brains of fit, young ...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Temporal Self-Compression

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Brietzke and Meyer (open source) provide behavioral and neural evidence that our past and future selves are compressed as they move away fr...
Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Severity and clinical course of depression correlates with altered connectivity in sensorimotor cortices.

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Interesting work from Ray et al. ,   Significance Research into neurobiology of depression primarily focuses on its complex psychologica...
Monday, December 06, 2021

The Science of Mind Reading

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James Somers offers a fascinating article in the Nov. 29 issue of The New Yorker, which I recommend that you read. It describes the develop...
Friday, December 03, 2021

In praise of Sheeple - why we shouldn't always think for ourselves

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A friend pointed out this interesting article by Ian Leslie , which I recommend that you read. I pass on a few clips at the end of his expo...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

What is a DAO? Who needs humans?

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A DAO is a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation. My son pointed out this intriguing and also somewhat terrifying video to me. Like Mark Zuc...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

The Science of Hugs?

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Schultz describes an entertaining bit of work pursuing the obvious done by Düren et.al. Guys hugging each other use their arms differently...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Cannabis use during pregnancy correlates with cortisol, anxiety, aggression, and hyperactivity in young children.

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Sobering results from Rompala et al. :  Significance Cannabis use is becoming more prevalent, including during developmentally sensitive p...
Monday, November 29, 2021

An artificial neural network that responds to written words like our brain's word form area

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Interesting work from Dehaene and collaborators :   Significance Learning to read results in the formation of a specialized region in the...
Friday, November 26, 2021

Online spread of false information depends on cascade size

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Juul and Ugander do an analysis of factors that influence the spread of false news, finding a central role for cascade size and suggesting ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Caution around the fountain of youth.

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Lee et al. do a review " Antiaging diets: Separating fact from fiction " in Science Magazine. The link takes you to their summary...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Volatile hexadecanal emitted by babies could make men more docile and women more aggressive

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Interesting observations from Mishor et al. : In terrestrial mammals, body volatiles can effectively trigger or block conspecific aggressio...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Socrates, Diderot, and Wolpert on Writing and Printing

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I have to pass on these quotes sent by one my Chaos and Complexity Seminar colleagues at the University of Wisconsin: Socrates on writing,...