MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️

Cartoon Gollum in front of computer screen Bilbo (Frodo?) beside him saying "So you can't own the precious physically, but you can pay to have your name listed as its owner in an online distrubted database."

Non-Fungible Tales...

Stop scrolling and post two characters who always bring you joy.

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, about the same time.

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Deck Chair Clip (A Day's Pleasure)

I'm sure it's as fun as it looks. ;-)

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When we try to understand, clarify, or capture consciousness, it is as if we are walking down a bizarre Escher staircase.

Book Review
Unveiling the mysterious veil of consciousness:
an evolutionary perspective

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Consonance and Dissonance

The Physics of Dissonance 🏺🧪
aeon.co/videos/a-riv...

A riveting audiovisual dive into what makes sounds harmonious... or not.

Ionic currents promote transition from SS to BS during sustained depolarization.

Brain Cells Tune to Multiple Rhythms Like a Neural Radio

Interleaved single and bursting spiking resonance in neurons 🏺🧪
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Interplay of ionic currents influences the neuronal firing patterns, transitioning from single to burst firing during sustained depolarization

Network landscape of randomized resting state (RS) data: eigenspectrum and spatial activation patterns. This figure illustrates the frequency-resolved brain networks obtained using FREQ-NESS applied to the original data, randomized with two different strategies.

Listening to rhythm isn’t passive—your brain reshapes in real time, building new networks and syncing waves to match the beat

FREQ-NESS Reveals the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Frequency-Resolved Brain Networks During Auditory Stimulation 🏺🧪
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

These brainwaves oscillate between four and eight hertz and belong to the group of slower neural frequencies. Credit: Neuroscience News

Trait characteristics of midfrontal theta connectivity as a neurocognitive measure of cognitive control and its relation to general cognitive abilities🏺🧪
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

These brainwaves oscillate between four and eight hertz and belong to the group of slower neural frequencies.

Evolution of defensive behaviour in ecologically distinct Peromyscus species.

Flee or Freeze

How natural selection adapts survival behaviors by adjusting existing brain pathways rather than building new ones. Tweaking a key neural switch deep in the brain.

The neural basis of species-specific defensive behaviour in Peromyscus mice 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A physiocognitive account of the phenomenology of mind blanking (MB).

When your mind goes 'blank,' your brain activity resembles deep sleep

A mechanistic account in which MB is the end-result of physiological, neural, and cognitive changes

Where is my mind?
A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking 🏺🧪
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

MB is associated with an overall positive interregional brain connectivity pattern.

The human mind is generally assumed to be constantly thinking.

The phenomenology of mind blanking (MB) challenges this stance.

Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Properties of stable and unstable place cells within and across days.

Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around

"I was sure that the memory was going to look more stable over days — and that's not what we found."

Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Description of the experimental protocol and collected data.

🔆 Good morning!

I dreamt I was a butterfly...
or am I now a butterfly dreaming I'm a man?

The individual determinants of morning dream recall 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Provides an account for previous observations regarding inter- and intra-individual variability in morning dream recall.

A Pumé man and woman hunt and gather foods on the Venezuelan savanna. Russell D. Greaves

How Women Shaped Human Evolution Through Food Processing 🏺🧪
www.sapiens.org/biology/huma...

An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing and dietary diversity—practices often led by women—that were just as crucial to humans surviving and thriving as hunting.

Examples of the different types of materials and engravings included in the present study

Markings from 70 kya to see if memory systems were used

Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics:
Implications for the origin of quantification🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Suggests cognitive capabilities for information storage and retrieval

Google Code of Conduct Don't be evil.

Remember when Google's motto was "Don't Be Evil"?
Yeah... good times. :-(

Group Comparison of SNP Frequencies and Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Network.

Enrichment of a subset of Neanderthal polymorphisms in autistic probands and siblings 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The potential roles Neanderthal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) may be playing in autism susceptibility.

An android whispering in the ear of another android Image by Getty / Futurism

AI Models Can Send "Subliminal" Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil 🧪
futurism.com/ai-models-su...

Could this be a death sentence for the industry?
Well, let's hope so.

Distribution of mental health status labels in the dataset.

Despite LLMs, specialized approaches remain superior for critical healthcare applications like mental health classification

Comparing traditional natural language processing and large language models for mental health status classification:
A multi-model evaluation🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Artificial intelligence with a young student getty

The Possible Impact Of ChatGPT... motivation, resiliency, and relationships.

Reliance on AI assistants might sacrifice the learning process and long-term brain development among young students.

How ChatGPT And AI Use In Academics Might Impact Student Mental Health
www.forbes.com/sites/ericwo...

Average MHQ scores of 18–24-year-olds (males and females combined) by age of first smartphone ownership for the global population, as well as across different regions.

👇 Wait a minute, hold the phone...
This is quite alarming.

A New Study Just Found Something Horrifying About Kids Who Get Phones Early in Life

Protecting the Developing Mind in a Digital Age:
A Global Policy Imperative 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by Neuroscience News Childhood Trauma Rewires the Brain and the Immune System

Childhood Trauma Rewires the Brain and the Immune System
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnOu...

From the cradle to the grave🏺🧪
genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

Dr. Poletti's research adds to a growing recognition mental health is inseparable from physical health, particularly immune function.

Red hands silhouette of the cave of the Salin Fountain, Cantabria, Spain, similar to the cave images at Grottes de Gargas in France. (Image Credit: JESUS DE FUENSANTA/Shutterstock)

Paleolithic Children Played with Mud Balls and Tried to Knock Down Cave Formations 🏺🧪
www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

Learn more about what life was like for Paleolithic peoples, especially children and adolescences of thousands of years ago.

Kids with funny faces drawn on their hands Image by Lora Moore-Kakaletris via Unsplash

Varieties of childhood 🏺🧪
disi.org/varieties-of...

Dr. Dorsa Amir & Dr. @sheinalew.bsky.social discuss different ways childhood differs, in terms of parents’ attitudes toward risk, in terms of social structures and activities in which kids are embedded, and in terms of freedom children are granted.

YouTube video by Fatoumata Diawara Fatoumata Diawara - KASSILA

🔆 Good morning!

Children...

All children are our children and our future.

Fatoumata Diawara - KASSILA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3d3...

Congrats to all! 👏

Great! Congrats to all! 👏

And, and... he's still the President of the United States.

Cookie Monster AMOR

For decades, I've watched and donated to PBS even from Canada. (I cherish my Dr. Who mug where the Tardis appears and disappears depending on the temp.)

Much valued for news, education, documentaries, comedy, drama, music, and other quality entertainment.

This is truly a heartbreaking pity.