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Mapping the Physical Properties of Odorant Molecules to Their Perceptual...
I pass on parts of the editor's summary and the abstract of a foundational piece of work by Lee et al. that produces a map linking odorant molecular structures... Read more
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Inhalation Boosts Perceptual Awareness and Decision Speed
From Ludovic Molle et al. (open source): Significance Breathing is a ubiquitous biological rhythm in animal life. However, little is known about its effect on... Read more
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The Fragility of Artists’ Reputations from 1795 to 2020
Zhang et al. do an interesting study using natural language processing to measure reputation over time: Significance This study uses machine-learning... Read more
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Neuron–astrocyte Networks Might Perform the Core Computations Performed by AI...
Fascinating ideas from Kozachkov et al. Their text contains primers on Astrocyte biology and the transformers found in AI Generative Pre-trained Transformers... Read more
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A Shared Novelty-seeking Basis for Creativity and Curiosity
I pass on the abstract of a target article having the title of this post, sent to me by Behavioral and Brain Science. I'm reading through it, and would be... Read more
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The Promise and Pitfalls of the Metaverse for Science
A curious open-sourse bit of hand waving and gibble-gabble about the metaverse. I pass on the first two paragraphs and links to its references. Read more
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Why Citizens Vote Away the Democracies They Claim to Cherish.
Here is an interesting bit of research from Braley et al. reported in Nature Human Behaviour. Their abstract: Around the world, citizens are voting away the... Read more
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Never-Ending Stories - a Survival Tactic for Uncertain Times
I keep returning to clips of text that I abstracted from a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao. It gets more rich for me on each re-reading. Read more
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Born Rich
I want to pass on a few slightly edited clips from an interesting essay in The Dispatch by conservative writer Kevin Williamson that a friend pointed me to. Read more
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Human History Gets a Rewrite.
I want to point to two articles I have enjoyed reading, both describing the recent book by Graeber and Wengrowa; “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of... Read more
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