Teddi Mellencamp confirms she has stage 4 cancer after doctors find more brain tumors https://www.inbella.com/983268/teddi-mellencamp-confirms-she-has-stage-4-cancer-after-doctors-find-more-brain-tumors/ #brains #cancer #CelebrityNews #Doctors #EntertainmentNews #RealHousewives #RealHousewivesOfBeverlyHills #RealityStars #TeddiMellencamp #tv
Our #brains have 50% more #plastic in them than they did in 2016. Where does it go from here?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/microplastic-human-brain-health
What is #Randomness: #Mathematical, #Scientific, and #Epistemological #Dimensions : Medium
Years After the Early #Death of a #Math #Genius, Her #Ideas Gain New #Life : Quanta Mag
Is there really a difference between #Male and #Female #Brains? #Emerging #Science is revealing the #Answer. : Live Sci
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“#inait is pioneering a new #AI paradigm — moving beyond traditional data-based models to digital #brains capable of true #cognition,” said Adir Ron, #Microsoft’s Emea cloud and AI director for start-ups and digital natives”
<https://archive.md/0M0sj> / <https://www.ft.com/content/37e44758-04a6-450b-abe3-f51f1d7d972a> (paywall)
The #Race for #Superintelligence: #Scaling, #Challenges, and Future #Prospects : Medium
You should be setting #Rejection #Goals : Vox
Why #Women’s #Brains are more #Resilient: it could be their ‘silent’ X #Chromosome : Nature
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"On the whole, the research shows, conservatives desire security, predictability and authority more than liberals do, and liberals are more comfortable with novelty, nuance and complexity. If you had put Buckley and Vidal in a magnetic resonance imaging machine and presented them with identical images, you would likely have seen differences in their brain, especially in the areas that process social and emotional information. The volume of gray matter, or neural cell bodies, making up the anterior cingulate cortex, an area that helps detect errors and resolve conflicts, tends to be larger in liberals. And the amygdala, which is important for regulating emotions and evaluating threats, is larger in conservatives."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/
#brains #polotics #communication
#Dementia patient #brains found to contain up to 10x more #microplastic than brains without dementia
https://www.psypost.org/scientists-issue-dire-warning-microplastic-accumulation-in-human-brains-escalating/
Facebook can read your mind! (but only if you want it to)
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/facebook-can-read-your-mind-but-only
Facebook/Meta is the latest organisation to claim they can use AI to 'read minds' via brain activity. But both such claims and the fearful reactions seriously overlook how tricky the brain makes this.
Dean Burnett's latest post looks at how neuroscientific misunderstandings lead to dubious media coverage.
Humans have been hunting for sex-based differences in the brain dating back to at least ancient Greece. Yet a scientist observing a female and male brain in a lab can’t tell them apart. "I'm not aware of any measure you can make of the human brain where the male and female distributions don't overlap," Dr. Armin Raznahan told Live Science. That said, the question of how male and female brains differ may still matter. @LiveScience has more:
LiveScience: Mystery of how man's brain turned to glass after Vesuvius eruption possibly solved
I'm a neuroscientist. Here's the surprising truth about TikTok 'brain rot'.
‘Brain rot’ was named Oxford's word of the year for 2024, defined as the "supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state" resulting from watching too much "trivial or unchallenging" content online, such as TikTok videos.
A recent study suggests bingeing short-form videos is bad for your grey matter.
Newborn #brains are full of synchronized activity, shaping #earlylearning and perception. Julijana Gjorgjieva, professor of computational #neuroscience, explains how these neural "fireworks" build connections in this #TEDxTUM talk: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tz544xBIk2I
University of Amsterdam: Why GPT can’t think like us. “Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models like GPT-4, has shown impressive performance on reasoning tasks. But does AI truly understand abstract concepts, or is it just mimicking patterns? A new study reveals that while GPT models perform well on some analogy tasks, they fall short when the problems are altered, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/25/university-of-amsterdam-why-gpt-cant-think-like-us/
Vox: Is AI really thinking and reasoning — or just pretending to?. “The big story is: AI companies now claim that their models are capable of genuine reasoning — the type of thinking you and I do when we want to solve a problem. And the big question is: Is that true? The stakes are high, because the answer will inform how everyone from your mom to your government should — and should not […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/24/vox-is-ai-really-thinking-and-reasoning-or-just-pretending-to/
#Neuralink hopes to #implant #experimental devices into the #brains of 20 to 30 #people in 2025
How long before #Musk starts #brainimplant experiments on inmates at #GuantanamoBay? Six months? #USPol #auspol #JosefMengele
Why Valentine's Day is annoying
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/why-valentines-day-is-annoying
Ever wondered why a holiday dedicated the popular concepts of love and romance gets so many people's back up? Well, now you know.