Monthly Archives: December 2024

Source X. Retweeted by Elon Musk: Piers Morgan … Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel: The consensus in Washington is that DOGE is going nowhere, but I’d say you should never bet against Elon. “The strong consensus view in the D.C. establishment is that this is going to go nowhere. That it’s just … Continue reading

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Independent: Trump era echoes ‘dangerous’ times before WW2, warns Mitch McConnell

Trump era echoes ‘dangerous’ times before WW2, warns Mitch McConnell McConnell endorsed Trump in 2024 election Josh Marcus San Francisco Thursday 12 December 2024 06:21 GMT Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start … Continue reading

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Brain-Wide Connections Predict Human Intelligence

Brain-Wide Connections Predict Human Intelligence FeaturedNeuroscience ·December 11, 2024 Summary: A recent study explores how connections across the entire brain predict human intelligence, moving beyond traditional focus on specific brain areas like the prefrontal cortex. Using fMRI data from over 800 … Continue reading

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DOGE: We have AI but not yet having an impact but here is something we should consider.

Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy Here’s a novel idea that DOGE is bringing to D.C.: read the law. Not an agency rule, or a bureaucrat’s summary of the law, or the media’s distillation of it, but the actual *statute* itself. I’m hearing … Continue reading

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Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (MIT). Commernt: post TBI 30 yrs on, I can identify with this; it seems like agoraphobia entrenched in fear. “Neurons represent individual locations, but together they don’t form a map. But on day 5 they form a map. If you want a map, you need all these neurons to work together in a coordinated ensemble.”

December 10, 2024 Research Findings Study suggests how the brain, with sleep, learns meaningful maps of spaces Place cells are well known to encode individual locations, but new experiments and analysis indicate that stitching together a “cognitive map” of a … Continue reading

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“Outsider Art”: Conor Pope was part of team who organised exhibition of “Outsider Art” in Dublin. These are paintings, often by artists with mental illness. I regret not buying a painting at that time. In other countries “Outsider Art” is collected and valued but not in Ireland, or so it seems. Just located link for Brent Pope exhibition, see below

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A name to Google: Thomas Sowell. See his quote below prediction taking account of AI

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From X: A pivotal politician in a tumultuous time, McConnell earned power and used it to shift the country to the right during his 17-year tenure. At the age of 82, he is ‘ready to do something else’ 

Financial Times (@FT) posted at 8:30 pm on Wed, Dec 11, 2024: A pivotal politician in a tumultuous time, McConnell earned power and used it to shift the country to the right during his 17-year tenure. At the age of … Continue reading

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US UK instrumental in the toppling of dictatorships; Russia from the other side has its involvement too. This is what Gaddafi said about Obama wanting him Dead.

This is what Gaddafi said about Obama wanting him Dead. Your comments on this

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From X…Shocking that this seat was won from Chris Andrews, a lifelong community activist & courageous supporter of the Palestinian people. Turns out Mr Hayes profited to the tune of almost a quarter of a million euros from the Israeli death machine.

Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) posted at 4:34 pm on Tue, Dec 10, 2024: Shocking that this seat was won from Chris Andrews, a lifelong community activist & courageous supporter of the Palestinian people. Turns out Mr Hayes profited to the tune … Continue reading

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