Ben Hayden

One step closer to my life long dream of finishing a box of 5000 staples

What Is Déjà Vu? Michio Kaku Wonders If It’s Triggered by Parallel Universes I've spent the past week on a road trip across America, and, during it, experienced perhaps my most intense case of déjà vu ever.

www.openculture.com/2015/10/mich...

psychologists/neuroscientists, if you need an antidote for physics-envy disorder, this may help

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1-NANCY IS IN THE KITCHEN, LOOKING AT A BOX OF CRACKERS, FRITZI IS SITTING IN THE LIVING ROOM READING A BOOK NANCY: AUNT FRITZI -- MAY I HAVE A CRACKER ? P2- FRITZI REPLIES TO NANCY: NO- - - IT WILL SPOIL YOUR DINER P3- NANCY : CAN I HAVE THE CRUMBS IN THE BOX? FRITZI: оКАУ- - JUST THE CRUMBS P4- NANCY HAS A MALLET, AND SHE LOOKS HUNGRILY AS SHE MASHES THE BOX OF CRACKERS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 03,1949

An image of Chip and Dale, in their Hawaiian shirt and bomber jacket, swinging on a rope together above an image of 2 frozen treats on a stick that resemble their faces, and a box. The copy reads "Swing into action with the coolest characters ever!"

Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Fudge Bars (1991-circa 1993): Chocolatey ice cream bars made to resemble the faces of the the title characters of the Disney Afternoon series, right down to the different colored candy noses

45-Story, 800-Unit Apartment Building Proposed For New Brunswick A proposal is before the New Brunswick Planning Board to build a 45-story apartment building at 259 George Street, plus a new parking garage

45-story tower proposed for a vacant lot behind the Abundant Life Family Worship Church in New Brunswick NJ. Original abundance bros! If this is approved - and I think it will be - it may be the tallest building in Central NJ! 800 apartments, of which 160 affordable. patch.com/new-jersey/n...

What a pleasure to welcome Flip Sabes to BCM last week for a fascinating look at next-gen neuromodulation and the interface of academia and neurotech! @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcmneurosurgery.bsky.social

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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Happy Casimir Pulaski Day, ya filthy animals.

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You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)

We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.

The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!

Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?

In short, yes!

westerly drive-in, westerly, rhode island, 1984

westerly drive-in, westerly, rhode island, 1984

Duke chapel interior

Hosted a meeting today; took my visitors to see Duke Chapel

Julian Abele designed it—one of over 30 Duke buildings he designed from 1924-1950 (when he died)

The school wasn’t desegregated until 1962 (🤬) & Abele was a Black architect

Posthumously, Duke renamed the central quad for him in tribute

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

ANXIETY Same symptoms as a heart attack, but no need to worry!!!

don't worry

light snow, starting to stick on lawn and cars. can still see the grass

time to start documenting this storm

4:15pm

If you could automatically acquire any language, living or dead, spoken or signed, and then were provided with enough funding to teach it at the University level, which language would you choose and why?

For my World War 1 friends, what are your three favorite books on the First World War? Any region, any topic, just favorites? @vandawilcox.bsky.social, suggestions?

does the Girl Scouts website ask you to accept all cookies

Amik in the Snow
Mishiikenhkwe ~ ANishinaabe
c. 2026

discrete = separate

discreet = unobtrusive

The E's are SEPARATED by the T in 'discrete.'

I love going to Georgetown bc you can be like wow I wonder if any of the founding fathers ever hung out in this sweetgreen

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊

Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules.

Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Close-up of Jo-Jo, Clown Prince of Crime, in full makeup: red nose, red-bordered white over the eyes and mouth, wisps of red hair at sides. He gestures with an index finger as he rants, "Then... along came the theater... the movies... and television... and before long, circuses became scarce, and clowns were no longer in demand! I swore vengeance!" BLACKHAWK #155, 1960. Writer unknown. Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff, art.

roses are red
violets are blue
lilacs are neither red nor blue, but if they had to answer a follow-up question picking whether they leaned more toward red, more toward blue or did not lean toward either
that would be terrible for this poem's scansion

roses are red
violet are magnificent
a change of 1 point's not
statistically significant

What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music The study of musical anhedonia—the inability to enjoy music—is revealing how music moves us.

Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward.
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
#neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky

The Tramp Steamer, 1922 #edwardhopper #americanart

It’s become fashionable to talk of Anglicanism as a kind of ‘English Shinto’, but is there also a sense in which Anglicanism is an ‘English Vodou’ - a religious creole in which elements of both Catholicism and Protestantism are seamlessly blended?

In case anyone has been wondering what I have been doing for the past 40 years, it is summed up in this slide.
#neuroscience