Ibrahim Khan

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How Sleep Helps the Brain Build Learning Maps Neuroplasticity and sleep hygiene enhance learning, memory, and habit formation by refining cognitive maps and strengthening neural connections.

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How Relationships Feed Your Brain A new book explains the many ways our brains are optimized to take advantage of relationships.

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Blame the Storm: I’m Starting Thanksgiving With Sweets How a Friendsgiving dessert turned into this year’s must-make Thanksgiving finale.

Blame the Storm: I’m Starting Thanksgiving With Sweets
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Dear Dad: Ten Years On and I’m Still Growing in the Direction You Pointed Me For the man who taught me kindness, mischief, and how to keep going even when life got heavy.

Dear Dad: Ten Years On and I’m Still Growing in the Direction You Pointed Me
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The Weekend Press: Who’ll Save Us From Scams? This week from The Weekend Press: Maya Sulkin on the anti-scammers. Sascha Seinfeld on ‘Dance Moms.’ A Soviet dissident explains why he doesn’t eat chocolate cake. On the country music charts, AI reac...

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How did the 20th century’s most glamorous intellectual friendship go wrong? | Aeon Videos How did the 20th century’s most glamorous intellectual friendship go wrong?

Today, on Albert Camus’ birthday, we are re-sharing this Aeon original video from the archive. It details the disagreement between Camus and Sartre which became the philosophical feud of the century. How could two such close friends become such unforgiving enemies? buff.ly/VzNSdB9

Way down south: slavery far beyond the United States | Aeon Essays Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the US. In today’s essay, the historian @araujohistorian.bsky.social explores its foundational role across the Americas and the enduring importance of understanding why race is historical buff.ly/zBcptu8

Seven years on the road, finding utopia in the lives of women | Aeon Videos How the photographer Justine Kirkland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities

Justine Kurland views utopia as a practice of reimagining inherited worlds. In this video by @moma.bsky.social, she explores three decades of this practice, reframing the American landscape through images of teenage girls, women and outsider communities experiencing radical freedom

The hidden costs of masking for women with ADHD and autism | Aeon Essays People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price

People with ADHD and autism often have to mask their natural instincts to fit in. In today’s essay, the clinical psychologist Gilly Kahn reflects on the personal cost of masking, drawing on her own lived experience of ADHD buff.ly/QfpHdHT

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Former Gentlemen's Club Worker Reveals The Hard Truth Many Wives Don't Want To Hear "Both married women and sex workers are safer and have more freedom when sex work is decriminalized."

I Worked In A Gentlemen's Club. Here's The Uncomfortable Truth Many Married Women Won't Face.

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White House plans dinner for Saudi prince scrutinized in journalist’s killing Trump’s formal dinner for Mohammed bin Salman marks a dramatic step in the public rehabilitation of a man once condemned as a pariah.

President Trump is planning a formal dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his trip to Washington, a man the U.S. intelligence community concluded approved the killing and dismemberment of Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

A harbor seal narrowly escaped a group of orcas by climbing aboard a boat rented by amateur wildlife photographer Charvet Drucker off Camano Island in Washington.

Most Americans say cost is limiting how many kids they have, survey finds Seven in 10 respondents said they believe raising children is too expensive, a notable jump from 2024, according to an annual public opinion survey on U.S. family life.

Most Americans think raising children is unaffordable, with finances as the major factor in determining family size, a new report found.

The results are a key signal of how finances are shaping Americans’ decisions.

50 species that save us Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered.

Indian vultures help keep rabies down as they hunt wild dogs. Giant sequoias store CO2. Tokay geckos have inspired waterproof adhesive bandages.

Plants and animals help humans in surprising ways. See how:

In biblical times, frogs were seen as a plague

Today, thanks to new research, we know they’re actually guardians against disease 1/5

How a frozen mammoth named Yuka is redefining the study of ancient RNA Scientists sequence the oldest RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth.

Scientists have sequenced the oldest-ever RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth named Yuka, whose remains were found frozen on a bluff in northeastern Siberia.

The research opens a new window on past life.

The State Department is required to publish “a thorough, accurate, and reliable” history of U.S. foreign policy within 30 years of the events.

But it deleted documents about the risk of inadvertent nuclear war. https://wapo.st/49TiRY4

We spoke with nearly 500 women to learn how they feel about President Trump’s first year in office.

From heartbreak to gratitude, here’s what they told us: https://wapo.st/4r1rOF5

First, the frogs died. Then people got sick. An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.

Frogs — in biblical times regarded as a plague — are actually guardians against disease.

As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, malaria cases have climbed.

Preservationists sue Trump over plans to paint Eisenhower building The complaint alleges Trump’s plan would ‘permanently alter one of the most architecturally significant and historic structures in the Nation’s Capital’

Preservationists concerned by President Trump’s public musings about painting the 137-year-old Eisenhower Executive Office Building completely white sued him to halt the work.

Trump goes on defense over tariffs as prices on everyday items keep rising The rollback of import taxes on coffee, bananas and many other foods is the latest sign that the administration could be forced to shift course.

President Trump’s move to drop tariffs on groceries such as coffee, beef, bananas, and tomatoes — contradicting his claims that the levies weren’t raising prices — shows he is on the defensive over his signature policy initiative.

The cheap health insurance promoted by Trump officials has this catch As millions brace for higher insurance prices, plans touted by the Trump administration are attracting attention. They are cheaper, but coverage is often skimpy.

As millions brace for higher insurance prices, plans touted by the Trump administration are attracting attention.

They are cheaper, but coverage is often skimpy.

On edge in small-town America In a divided nation, one Wisconsin village feels everyday life begin to fray.

In a town of less than 2,000, the conversation around immigration enforcement isn’t abstract — it’s personal.

Here’s how Palmyra is navigating fear, funding and federal-local dynamics:

After being persecuted for decades, Jafar Panahi could win an Oscar The Iranian director has been jailed and banned from filmmaking. Will the acclaim for “It Was Just an Accident” protect him — or make him a target once again?

Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been jailed and banned from filmmaking. Will the acclaim for his latest, the stirring “It Was Just an Accident,” protect him from authorities, or make him a target once again?

“We were missing persons, missing the persons we used to be” In this edition of the Weekender: haunted theaters, cultural criticism, and the ethnic origins of monsters

“We were missing persons, missing the persons we used to be”
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A Reader Shares a Wild Story about Jaco Pastorius From the comments section to yesterday's article on live music

A Reader Shares a Wild Story about Jaco Pastorius
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This is figure 1, which gives an overview of the CellWhisperer multimodal AI for natural-language analysis of transcriptome data.

A paper in Nature Biotechnology presents CellWhisperer, which uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data. go.nature.com/3XqzItR 🧬 🧪

Does time pass or is it all in our heads? Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality.

Does time really pass or is it all in our heads?
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