New York Magazine
How the Coronavirus Could Take Over Your Body (Before You Ever Feel It)
9 min · · How the novel coronavirus could take over your body before you ever felt it. · Shared by 703, including Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, SwiftOnSecurity, Azeem Azhar, Christina Hoff Sommers, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Aral Balkan, Barry C Smith, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Jane, Jen Simmons, Jerry Saltz, Dr. Alec Couros, Jonathan Kogan, Caitlin Moran, Martin Varsavsky, A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR, Simon Hix, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Mark Kaigwa
The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
9 min · · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake. · Shared by 656, including Daniel Dennett, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, George J Huba PhD, Matthias Lampe, Christopher Allen, Liv 😷, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Moheb Costandi, Vaughan Bell, Brian Ahier, Damian Madray, David Pearce, Jennifer Ouellette, Gabriele, Miguel Angel Escotet, Jane, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Gerd Leonhard, Timothy Lomauro, justin caouette
Elemental
Science Confirms That the Vagus Nerve Is Key to Well-being
6 min · · The mysterious nerve network that quiets pain and stress — and may defeat disease · Shared by 480, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, John Hagel, Kathy Klotz-Guest, 7/27 Comedy @ SF Marina Theater, Liv 😷, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Howard Getson, Azeem Azhar, Matthias Lampe, Jonathan Kogan, Paul Ekman, Ward Plunet, fnord
Quanta Magazine
Your Brain Chooses What to Let You See
3 min · · Beneath our awareness, the brain lets certain kinds of stimuli automatically capture our attention by lowering the priority of the rest. · Shared by 420, including K. Williams, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Anita Leirfall, Ward Plunet, Mathew Ingram, Matthias Lampe, Josep M. Ganyet, John Hagel, Liv 😷, Dominik Grolimund, John Nosta, Howard Getson, Vaughan Bell, Antonio Vieira Santos, sircharlsxavier, Peter Schmidhuber
Quanta Magazine
‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals
9 min · · Activity in the visual cortex and other sensory areas is dominated by signals about body movements, down to little tics and twitches. Scientists are now rethinking how they study and conceive of… · Shared by 385, including Barry C Smith, Dominik Grolimund, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Patricia Churchland, Herbert Bay, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Miguel Angel Escotet, Matthias Lampe, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Anita Leirfall, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Brian Ahier, dunschtig, Jane, Ward Plunet, Gregg Caruso
Singularity Hub
Scientists Discovered 'Mini-Computers' in Human Neurons—and That's Great News for AI
5 min · · The neurons in our cortex, the outermost “crust” of our brain, seem to have uniquely evolved to sustain complex computations in their input cables. · Shared by 336, including Christian Fauteux, Neil Hart 💙, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tamara McCleary, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Bjorn Larsen, Matthias Lampe, Oliver Ewinger, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, John Nosta, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, John Hagel, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Rick Powell, Danie, Jakub Ferenc, Tauno, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Ines Bieler
Quanta Magazine
A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision
7 min · · Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible. · Shared by 305, including Matthias Lampe, ExApologist, Ward Plunet, Roland Sailer, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Lukas Stickelberger, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jane, Faik Ersoy, Christopher Mims 🤌, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 瑞拿頭, sircharlsxavier
MIT Technology Review
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
Summary · 8 min · · Often advertised as a safe place to invest and speculate, blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchanges present a tantalizing opportunity to hackers. As an increasing number of mega-hacks are revealed, even the largest platforms such as Bitcoin and Coinbase acknowledge some risk. Companies specializing in thwarting sophisticated digital thieves propose solutions such as network kill switches and eliminating smart-contract bugs. Regardless, billions of dollars per year disappear into cyberspace, without a chance of recovery. This is a must-read article for anyone considering trading on a cryptocurrency platform. · Shared by 288, including Martin Rajcan, Thomas Telandro, Chris Gledhill, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, getAbstract, Oliver Reichenstein, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Nils Hitze, Khoi Vinh, Ralph Hutter, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Thomas Power, Florian Graillot, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, fernand0, Ian M Calvert
nature
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks
20+ min · · A study of 246 individuals with seasonal respiratory virus infections randomized to wear or not wear a surgical face mask showed that masks can significantly reduce detection of coronavirus and… · Shared by 284, including Dr. Kiki Sanford, Tom Raftery, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Ferris Jabr, Marcel Salathé, Eric Topol, Christian Drosten, Nathan Benaich, hardmaru, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, David CisMan, The Crypto Dog🫐, Bill Hanage, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Monica Gandhi MD, MPH, Ben Cowling, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🥼🤹🦟🧀, Marc Lipsitch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic
13+ min · · A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. · Shared by 284, including Iain Brown, PhD, Katja Evertz, Martin Ford, Vala Afshar, Thomas Power, Chris Isak, Ronald van Loon, Jonathan Kogan, Harold Sinnott, John Hagel, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Esther Schindler, Terence Mills, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Kirk Borne, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, LARRY ELKAN, Tamara McCleary, Carla Gentry 🎶, Oliver Ewinger
nature
First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
3 min · · In a small trial, a cocktail of drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’. · Shared by 275, including Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Martina Grolimund, Alain, The Crypto Dog🫐, Martina Pugliese, Rick Powell, Thomas Power, Martin Varsavsky, 瑞拿頭, Eric Topol, Matt Turck, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Warren Whitlock, Marc Eglon, Roger Highfield, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Mark_Sisson, Balaji, slumos, Luca M. Sergio
The Atlantic
Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
20+ min · · What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world · Shared by 249, including Liv 😷, Rob Weinert-Kendt, Vikram Dutt, Tauno, UN Biodiversity, Oscar MacDonald, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Ward Plunet, Felix M, Jane, David McCandless, @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, MIT Press, Florian Hanke 🍎, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liliane Ferrari ™, Howard Getson, Memen Isimo, Dominik Grolimund, ExApologist
MIT Technology Review
Google’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.
4 min · · If AI is really going to make a difference to patients we need to know how it works when real humans get their hands on it, in real situations. · Shared by 239, including AI, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jonathan Kogan, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian Ahier, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Privacy Matters, Carla Gentry 🎶, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Andreas Staub, Katja Evertz, Carl Robinson 🎙️, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Tamara McCleary, Terence Mills
MIT Technology Review
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
3 min · · Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint. · Shared by 222, including Howard Getson, Scott Murray, Nils Hitze, Katja Evertz, Gerd Leonhard, Bjorn Larsen, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Elena Neira, Mike Butcher, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Eric Topol, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, AlgorithmWatch, Karen McGrane, Antonio Vieira Santos, Bertrand Maltaverne, tante, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Dominik Grolimund
WIRED
Forget Chess—the Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D
2 min · · Some artificial intelligence experts think role playing adventure games will help machines learn to be as clever as we are. · Shared by 208, including Rick King, Carl Robinson 🎙️, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, Nige Roberts-Willson, Esther Schindler, sircharlsxavier, Backchannel, Gengo 🦁, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Matthew Turland, Elyzer Gatez, Jennifer Ouellette, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The New Yorker
Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?
10 min · · Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless. Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong. · Shared by 204, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Amy Jo Kim, Steve Case, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Esther Schindler, ExApologist, Luca Weber, Niklaus Gerber, Jane, Fern, John Zeratsky, Liv 😷