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Reading Fiction Boosts Empathy and Fights Loneliness (Bibliotherapy – highly recommended by me)

Reading Fiction Boosts Empathy and Fights Loneliness FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology ·May 19, 2025 Summary: While AI companions are marketed as a fix for loneliness, research shows that reading offers far more meaningful benefits. Reading fiction can foster social connection, reduce stress, enhance empathy, … Continue reading

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The New Atlas: reverse age … and demential related cognitive decline. Comment: Learn the importance of cognitive reserve

Natural molecule reverses age- and dementia-related cognitive decline By Paul McClure May 14, 2025 Overproduction of hevin (green) by astrocyte cells (red) reversed cognitive impairment in mice Felipe Cabral-Miranda & Ana Paula Bergamo Araujo/Agência FAPESP CC BY-NC 4.0 View 1 Images In … Continue reading

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Big Think. How curiosity rewires your brain for change

Smart Skills — May 12, 2025 How curiosity rewires your brain for change Curiosity is often considered a personality quirk. Neuroscience paints a different picture. Key Takeaways Anne-Laure Le CunffCopy a link to the article entitled http://How%20curiosity%20rewires%20your%20brain%20for%20change Share How curiosity rewires your … Continue reading

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The Deep View: AI for Good: AI is speeding up drug development.

AI for Good: AI is speeding up drug development Source: ChatGPT 4o AI is helping pharmaceutical researchers find new treatments faster and cheaper by surfacing promising compounds buried deep in massive datasets. Dotmatics, a R&D software company, recently acquired by Siemens for … Continue reading

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The__Byte: New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade. Quote: “Meanwhile, the impacts of a regulation-free AI landscape are already being felt. Emotive, addictive AI companions have been rolled out explicitly to teenagers without evidence of safety, AI companies are missing their climate targets and spewing unchecked emissions into American neighborhoods, and nonconsensual deepfakes of women and girls are flooding social media.” Comment: Surely we need AI guardrails

Accountability Now / Artificial Intelligence New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade by Maggie Harrison Dupré May 13, 11:11 AM EDT Getty / Futurism This is insane. Fresh Hell An updated version of the bill introduced last night … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Incel (Involuntary Celibate). Comment: Time will tell if post COVID-19 decisions to allow staff work from home could be the cause of mental illness scenarios. Quote: “Incel spaces often celebrate unemployment and isolation as signs of ideological purity, pressuring others to remain disengaged from work or education.” Are you a Fakecel?

Incel Culture Links Work Avoidance to Group Loyalty Featured NeurosciencePsychology ·May 14, 2025 Summary: A new study reveals that many self-identified incels reject employment not only due to mental health challenges, but as a deliberate expression of identity reinforced by online … Continue reading

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The Deep View: AI for Good. Google AI > human doctors?

 AI for Good: Google AI > human doctors? Source: ChatGPT 4o Google has upgraded its experimental medical chatbot, AMIE, to analyze photos of rashes and interpret a variety of medical imagery, including ECGs and lab result PDFs. AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer) … Continue reading

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New Atlas AI heart attack detection

Show Search Medical Innovations New chip for wearables has AI-powered heart attack detection baked in By Abhimanyu Ghoshal May 11, 2025 A wearable that can alert you about a potential heart attack could save your life – and we’re inching closer … Continue reading

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The Deep View: AI for Good. A selfie health assessment. Ireland in the dark ages for health provision but it is never too late to engage with AI and leapfrog.

 AI for Good: A selfie health assessment Source: ChatGPT 4o Image Generation Hospitals already snap a photo of you when you arrive, now FaceAge turns that into new data for doctors. Trained on more than 58,000 “healthy” faces and tested on 6,000 … Continue reading

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Neuroscience.com Eye Movements … so very important to know

Eye Movements Set the Speed Limit for What You Can See FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience ·May 10, 2025 Summary: The speed of your eye movements, called saccades, determines how fast an object can move before it becomes invisible to you. Objects that mimic … Continue reading

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