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• Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

  

  Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow! Their abstract, followed by a quote from... Read more

  The 30 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

  A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read: I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before his death from cancer, i... Read more

  The 26 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Steven Fry: "AI: A Means to an End Or a Means to Our End?"

  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 entertaining analysis, steeped... Read more

  The 23 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• CFA for Workshop “Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” at the Annual DPG Meeting,...

  The Working Group “Philosophy of Physics” (AGPhil) of the German Physical Society (DPG) invites submissions for its annual workshop. Read more

  The 19 december 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Sculpting New Visual Categories into the Human Brain.

  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 they are... Read more

  The 18 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Analysis of the Dumbing Down of Language on Social Media Over Time

  Di Marco et al. (open source) do a comparative analysis of 8 different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Voat, Reddit, Usenet, Gab, and... Read more

  The 16 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods - How to Deal with Farting Cows...

  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 plant sourced food. After ... Read more

  The 12 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• Neurons in the Amygdala Jointly Encode the Status of Interacting Individuals

  From Lee et al.:Highlights-Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions -During fixations, neural populations signal the... Read more

  The 10 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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• CFA Summer School: The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory (Lugano,...

  The Summer School The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory will take place at USI, Lugano (Switzerland) from 23 to 27 June 2025 and will be taught by Chris... Read more

  The 09 december 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• An AI Framework for Neural–behavioral Modeling

  Work of Sani et al. (open access) is reported in the Oct. 2024 issue of Nature Neuroscience. From the editor's summary:Neural dynamics are complex and... Read more

  The 09 december 2024 by   Deric Bownds
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