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• Rough Diamond – A Scammer’s Story

  

  Here's a fun little story about some scammy stuff that just happened to me on LinkedIn.I'm currently looking around for either a new role or just some more... Read more

  The 08 january 2025 by   Betchaboy
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• Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men Than to Women

  I pass on the abstract of an interesting manuscript that has been accepted by Behavioral and Brain Science, by Wahring et al. : Women are often viewed as more... Read more

  The 06 january 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Children as Agents of Cultural Adaption

  When I scroll through some of the social medial sites (Instagram, Tik-Tok, X, YouTube, etc.) used by today's teenagers and their influencers I feel I am visitin... Read more

  The 03 january 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• How Our Brain Networks Are Reconfigured by a Cortisol Increase 30-45 Min After...

  Zeng et al. offer a fascinating account of how the rise in our body cortisol levels 30-45 min after waking orchestrates a reconfiguration of brain networks... Read more

  The 01 january 2025 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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