Brain implants & the Milky Way
Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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How a brain implant and AI gave a woman with paralysis her voice back (video) 📺
Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children's Mental
Well-being: Summary of the Evidence (paper) 📄
Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults
Ryuzo Yanagimachi, Researcher Who Cloned Mice, Dies at 95
Creation of an albino squid line by CRISPR-Cas9 and its application for in vivo functional imaging of neural activity
Ten years writing book reviews
Retrieving the near-complete genome of a threatened bird from wild frozen samples
Calorie restriction modulates the transcription of genes related to stress response and longevity in human muscle: The CALERIE study
16 questions posed & answered by Leslie Berlin's book "Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age"
Use your Kindle as a portable typewriter. All you need is a Kindle, a keyboard, and this app.
I often wonder if I should have been born at another time. My senses are unusually, some might say unnaturally keen, and ours is an era of distraction. It's a punishing drumbeat of constant input. It follows us into our homes and into our beds. It seeps into our... Into our souls, for want of a better word. For a long time, there was only one solution for my raw nerve endings and that was copious drug use. In my less productive moments, I'm given to wonder.... If I had just been born when it was a little quieter out there, would I have even become an addict in the first place? Might I have been more focused? A more fully realized person?
Fact Check: Do All Healthy People Have Mystical Experiences?
So this tweet is false, unless you’re using some kind of hokey ad hoc definition of “the mind is healthy”. I’m glad; lots of people have spiritual experiences at their worst moments, and find them helpful. Healthy people already have enough to brag about; it would be annoying if they got to monopolize mystical experiences too!
Literally Billions - A Dot For Every Person On The Earth
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome
Book Review: How Roads Are Reshaping
Explosive growth from Al automation: A review of the arguments
Walt Whitman's marginalia / annotation strategies are intense.
Plato's Ideas: Still Relevant Today?
A successful example of “adversarial collaboration.” When does this approach work and when does it not?
Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality — explained by Fallout co-creator Tim Cain
The revisited mass of the Milky Way is much smaller than expectations from cosmology
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👾 some YouTube video essays
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