Singularity Hub
Amazingly Detailed Map Reveals How the Brain Changes With Aging
5 min · · The team constructed maps of roughly 5 billion synapses, outlining a timeline of their diversity and numbers in over 100 different brain regions with age. · Shared by 139, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Christian Fauteux, Pascal Sulser, Brian Ahier, ExApologist, John Hagel, Liv 😷, rohit
today.duke.edu
Studies of Brain Activity Aren’t as Useful as Scientists Thought
4 min · · Hundreds of published studies over the last decade have claimed it's possible to predict an individual’s patterns of thoughts and feelings by scanning their brain in an MRI machine as they perform… · Shared by 67, including sarcastic_f, Dylan Wiliam, Jill Jacobson, Association for Psychological Science, Matthias Lampe
World Economic Forum
Why we need a new approach to young people's mental health
4 min · · Most mental health systems are structured on child and adult systems, with the cut-off point being 18 years – right in the middle of the onset of illness. · Shared by 89, including Nicolas Babin, Steve Case, Bilal Aslam
TED Talks
Mind going a million miles a minute? Slow down with this breathing exercise
3 min · · When your brain is churning away with worries and anxieties, this effective exercise can help you start to calm down, says psychiatrist Judson Brewer. · Shared by 97, including Rich, Liv 😷, Bilal Aslam
Nautilus Magazine
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?
7 min · · The brain is complex; in humans it consists of about 100 billion neurons, making on the order of 100 trillion connections. It is often… · Shared by 298, including Bilal Aslam, Jansnet, Vaughan Bell, Christian Surchi, John Hagel, Stefan Diepolder, Liv 😷, Anita Leirfall, Liliane Ferrari ™, Jonathan Kogan
Lifehacker
Improve Your Critical Thinking With This Cheatsheet
3 min · · The next time you need to think critically about something—whether you’re considering a new idea, weighing the pros and cons of a potential decision, or evaluating whether you can trust a particular… · Shared by 247, including Andrew Ermogenous, Bilal Aslam, Filippo Antonio Capizzi
Towards Data Science
Why are neural networks so powerful?
12+ min · · The universal approximation theorem · Shared by 102, including Elena Neira, Andreas Staub, Lillian Pierson, PE 👩🎤 GTM & Growth Queen, Yves Mulkers, MIT CSAIL, Harold Sinnott, Katja Evertz, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
Aeon+Psyche
A touch of absurdity can help to wrap your mind around reality
6 min · · And now for something completely different: how a dose of the surreal or absurd helps to make sense of our place in the world · Shared by 170, including Liv 😷, Matthias Lampe, John Hagel, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Jason Silva, LoriBeth, James, Tauno, Gregg Caruso
The School of Life
Melancholy: the best kind of Despair
4 min · · There are a great many ways of handling the unhappiness that inevitably comes with being human: we may rage or despair, we may scream or lament, we may sulk or cry. But there is perhaps no better way… · Shared by 158, including Liv 😷
The School of Life
Nature as a cure for the Sickness of Modern Times
10 min · · The modern age has manhandled nature like none before it ever quite has. Previous eras may not have treated it with too much respect – the Ancient Greeks stripped most of their coastline of trees by… · Shared by 52, including Simon C, Gregor B. Rosenauer
Neuroscience News
The dreaming brain tunes out the outside world
3 min · · The brain tunes out information from the outside world, such as the sound of speech, during REM sleep. During light sleep, the brain prioritizes meaningful speech, just as it does during a wakeful… · Shared by 44, including LoriBeth, Liv 😷
Inverse
Dreams Might be Warning Us About Our Brain Health
2 min · · This scientist says dream disorders could be a sign of future disease. · Shared by 319, including Simon C, Liv 😷, Faik Ersoy
Aeon+Psyche
To say what consciousness is, science explores where it isn’t
14+ min · · Can electrical impulses in the brain explain the stuff that dreams are made on? What a new consciousness-detector reveals · Shared by 329, including Bilal Aslam, John Hagel, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Gregor B. Rosenauer, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Liv 😷, Gregg Caruso, Vaughan Bell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Pip Morris, Jason Silva, Thomas Power
Brain Pickings
Emotional Anatomy: Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Somatic Consciousness
2 min · · Dissecting the pulsating accordion of psychoemotional reality. · Shared by 145, including Neil Hart 💙, LARRY ELKAN, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Evan (he/him)
TIME
Loneliness Is a Modern Invention. Understanding That History Can Help Us Get Through This Pandemic
4 min · · It's important to remember that loneliness is not a universal human condition, but a historically specific one · Shared by 176
medium.com
Stoic ontology 101: the difference between reality and existence
4 min · · [This article goes well with my Stoic Epistemology 101 and Stoic Psychology 101. For this entry, I am indebted to John Sellars, and… · Shared by 156, including Liam Bright, Matteo Furia, Massimo Pigliucci, Fabrizio Bianchi, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Logical Analysis