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• Harmonics of the Social Brain

  Interesting work from Mague et al. on the brain-wide network in mice that encodes rewarding social experience: Highlights • Machine learning model... Read more

  The 19 may 2022 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Dynamics of Inflation

  

  Inflation, the steady increase of prices and wages, is a nice example of what is called a marginal mode, line attractor, or invariant manifold in dynamical... Read more

  The 18 may 2022 by   Ccc1685
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• New Paper on Sars-CoV-2

  

  J.C.Phillips, Marcelo A.Moret, Gilney F.Zebende, Carson C.Chow Abstract The novel coronavirus SARS CoV-2 responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and SARS CoV-1... Read more

  The 16 may 2022 by   Ccc1685
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• How Stress Might Help Reduce Dementia and Alzheimer’s.

  The post today (my 80th birthday) points to experimental results relevant to my interest in not losing my marbles anytime soon. Read more

  The 16 may 2022 by   Deric Bownds
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• Open Positions in Philosophy of Physics: Scientific Collaborator and PhD...

  The Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva invites applications for two positions for Christian Wüthrich’s new SNSF‐funded project PHILOSOPHY BEYOND... Read more

  The 13 may 2022 by   Wuthrich
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• The Tabula Sapiens Consortium - Mapping Cell Types in the Human Body

  It is hard to keep up with the mind boggling advances that pop up in almost every issue of Science Magazine. In a perspective article Liu and Zhang describe... Read more

  The 13 may 2022 by   Deric Bownds
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• Cause and Effect–One Minute Poetry–May 12, 2022

  

  Cause and Effectcause and effectpropelling humansoutwardlearning techniquesto save EarthThis is a reverse sci(na)ku tanka, of the form:3 words / 2 words / 1 wor... Read more

  The 12 may 2022 by   Roxannebarbour
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• Increases and Decreases in Affective Polarization Over the Past 40 Years in...

  An interesting study from Boxell et al. shows that across 12 advanced democracies, affective polarization, the degree to which people feel more negatively towar... Read more

  The 11 may 2022 by   Deric Bownds
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• Graziano's Conceptual Framework for Consciousness

  I would like to pass on this link to Graziano's latest (open source) explication of his theory of consciousness, continuing a MindBlog thread that started with ... Read more

  The 09 may 2022 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Prosocial Effect of Touching - the Midas Touch Effect.

  Schaefer et al. (open source) examine the neural underpinnings of how light touching enhances prosocial behavior. Their abstract: Giving and receiving touch... Read more

  The 09 may 2022 by   Deric Bownds
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