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Why Slow Listening Is The Cure To Your Playlist Paralysis - Mixcloud Blog In this article, we share how slow listening, radio and tuning in can help you chill out and unwind in the age of choice.

Why Slow Listening Is The Cure To Your Playlist Paralysis

Scientists Say They've Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan The team showed that the brain scan analyzing technique could generate accurate descriptions of a video someone was watching.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan

Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids Schools around the world are banning phones, and the results can be unexpected. For instance, schools are getting loud again.

Schools had become deathly silent. Now that phones are banned, they're loud again.

Pluribus review: This new sci-fi from Breaking Bad's creator is 'one of 2025's smartest shows' This series from Vince Gilligan stars Rhea Seehorn as a cynical woman living in a world where people are constantly happy. It's George Orwell meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

"This show was made by humans."
an apt slogan for a series that is both a plea for humanity and freedom of thought.

NASA supercomputer made terrifying prediction for when the world will end Researchers from NASA and Toho University in Japan have used supercomputers to find out when the Earth will end

NASA supercomputer made terrifying prediction for when the world will end

A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness

The Age of Enshittification In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The Age of Enshittification

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century

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AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs

Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for.

Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain

Most of America Opposed the Moon Landing July 20th, 2025 marks the 56th anniversary of the moon landing.

Nostalgia ignores pessimism, it forgets:

The moon mission was unpopular
Novel reading was frowned upon
The Walkman was anti-social
The Bicycle 'corrupted' women

After all, why would anyone have thought the good old days were bad? newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-ameri...

3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World Jul 7, 2025

“In a world of infinite content, people will increasingly organize around curators — the ones they trust to filter the chaos and surface what matters.”

3 Human Skills That Make You Irreplaceable in an AI World
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Unique ice, 1.5m years old, to be melted to unlock mystery BBC News went inside -23C freezers to see the ice that could "revolutionise" our knowledge of climate change.

Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery
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YouTube video by King's College, Cambridge Alan Turing Lecture 2025 by Sandi Toksvig

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Mappa Mundi - LCFI Mappa Mundi is a three-dimensional, immersive, and interactive view of the globe from a female perspective. This project has a simple but essential goal – to tell women’s stories – changing the world ...

Mappa Mundi is a three-dimensional, immersive, and interactive view of the globe from a female perspective, as women make up only 0.5% of recorded history.

Scientists Created an Evolution Engine That Works Inside Animal Cells Like a Biological AI This system accelerates evolution in living cells and it's open source.

Scientists Created an Evolution Engine That Works Inside Animal Cells Like a Biological AI

A new ‘eye’ may radically change how robots see The system contains a sensor, chip and tiny AI model inspired by biological eyes and brains and uses a tenth of the energy of a camera-based system.

A new "eye" for robots that could revolutionize how they see. The new system, called LENS, uses a neuromorphic sensor, chip, and AI model to process visual information. Unlike traditional camera-based systems, LENS uses a tenth of the energy and is more efficient in recognizing locations.

‘Cyborg’ beetles could revolutionise urban search and rescue Common beetles equipped with microchip backpacks could one day be used to help search and rescue crews locate survivors within hours instead of days following disasters such as building and mine colla...

‘Cyborg’ beetles could revolutionise urban search and rescue

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How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind Understanding the mind is hard. Understanding AI isn’t much easier.

How scientists are trying to use AI to unlock the human mind

The Human Exposome Project Bringing investigators together around the exposome to develop a new generation of scientists focused on complex environmental influences and human health.

The Human Exposome Project: measuring the complex exposures we face as humans and their impact on health
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Sunday Pages: "Neuromancer" A novel by William Gibson

Neuromancer (in 2025)

Comet 3I/ATLAS - NASA Science The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet

Comet 3I/ATLAS

Everyday painkiller made from plastic — by E. coli Nature - Study highlights potential for sustainable synthesis of paracetamol.

Plastic waste can be converted into painkillers - using E. coli

https://go.nature.com/3TIAlwX

Efficiency Without Morality Is Tyranny Notes on Sedation, Technocracy, and AI

Efficiency Without Morality Is Tyranny

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Human — Quarter Mile Human Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is...

Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

The Anti-Social Century

These Jobs Won't Exist In 24 Months! We Must Prepare For What's Coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JMYQmGfTltY

Music Does Something Amazing to Your Brain's Own Natural Rhythms Ever felt like a song really resonates with you? That may be more true than you think.

Music Does Something Amazing to Your Brain's Own Natural Rhythms
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The Secret Weapon of Top Futurists? It’s Not AI. It’s Imagination Futures thinking replaces prediction with preparation, using signals, scenarios, and storytelling to guide strategy and prepare for what is ahead.

The Power of Imagination

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