Friday, January 31, 2025

Tokens of sanity

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I repeat my September 29, 2024 "Tokens of sanity" post with a few edits:      -Being the calm space in which nothing can hurry -A...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Everything we experience comes from inside

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I pass on this cryptic paragraph from my personal journal: Everything we experience is coming from inside us - our illusion of having a self...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Regions of our brains making multiple predictions of others' actions.

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I want to point to an excellent review and summary by Lin and Wittmann in Trends in Neurosciences of work by Ma et al. in J.Neurosci. (both...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

How much does language shape our thinking?

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I want to pass on this link to Manvir Singh's article in The New Yorker which has the title of this post.  I enjoyed reading the articl...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

The birth of aspirational multiethnic populism

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I have pulled some clips from an excellent substack piece by Yascha Mounk to cement and archive his main points for myself and also pass on...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Poof! I'm 15-20 years younger...

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A Wall Street Journal article recently pointed me to two websites using AI to estimate one's biological age. So....I took a selfie of my...
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Neurobiology of Aging

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I want to point to the Jan. 8 issue of the journal "Neuron" which is largely devoted to the neuroscience of aging.  A number of it...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The origin of color categories

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Garside et al. make observations suggesting that cognitive mechanisms such as language are required for the expression of consensus color c...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Is critical race theory an inversion of history?

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John Ellis, who says yes, is a professor emeritus of German literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz (and author of “A Short H...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Breathing during sleep orchestrates hippocampal nested sleep oscillations underlying memory consolidation

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A fascinating correlation is found by Sheriff et al .  Their abstract: Nested sleep oscillations, emerging from asynchronous states in coor...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Predictive coding for social perception

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Rittershofer et al. introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled " Neurobiology of Social Interactions A...
Monday, January 06, 2025

Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men than to Women

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I pass on the abstract of an interesting manuscript that has been accepted by Behavioral and Brain Science, by Wahring et al. : Women ar...
Friday, January 03, 2025

Children as agents of cultural adaption

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When I scroll through some of the social medial sites (Instagram, Tik-Tok, X, YouTube, etc.) used by today's teenagers and their influe...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

How our brain networks are reconfigured by a cortisol increase 30-45 min after our waking.

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  Zeng et al.   offer a fascinating account of how the rise in our body cortisol levels 30-45 min after waking orchestrates a reconfigurat...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

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Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow! Their abstract, followe...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

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  A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read: I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before ...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?"

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I have to pass on to MindBlog readers and my future self this  link to a brilliant lecture by Steven Fry. It is an engaging and entertainin...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain.

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Fascinating work from Iordan et al. (open source) I pass on the abstract and the first paragraph of the article that makes more clear what...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Analysis of the dumbing down of language on social media over time

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Di Marco et al. (open source) do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Voat, Reddit, Us...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - how to deal with farting cows...

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I've just read through a number of articles in a Special Feature section of  the most recent issue of PNAS on the future of animal and ...