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Brain scans reveal where taste and smell become flavor The findings show the insula fuses taste and certain smells into the sensation of flavor.

“Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort.
Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed the region responsible for this sensory overlap in humans”.

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At least they are right about the reaction seeing the video will have. Shock. Disgust. Etc.

some more interesting interstate collaboration efforts in this thread!

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Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo was born #OnThisDay in 1942. She designed this black silk taffeta evening dress, hand-painted with a flying-cranes motif on the crinoline-like skirt, for Comme des Garçons' A/W 1991 collection. Kyoto Costume Institute. #fashionhistory

The Burbs! So good!

So glad to know the First Lady is having lovely chats with a genocidal murderer to ask him to return the children he abducted.

Do we even have a State Department anymore?

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Will buy.

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

MIT rejects Trump's deal. Gift article.
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Keep fighting

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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Also by Carl in pale blue dot

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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This thread 😂

Is this real!?

Who'd have thunk it?

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“last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced ppl’s risk of emergency dept visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% &their risk of death by 64%….
According to the study’s authors, COVID vaccination was effective in all age groups &‘in persons w/ or w/o major chronic conditions’”🛟🧪

I always attributed this to a combination of being from a big family and from the east coast:) cool to know it has a name! I always feel like a conversational brute out here in the PMW 😂

Shucks I wish I had known about this …and lived closer 😆

Will we keep getting paid for a five day work week? There is a reason I don’t work a 3 day week now…

Tarot Readings for Life in the Big, Soul-Crushing City Life in the big city can be many things. But mostly it is hard, expensive, and exhausting. Occasionally, it can smell like poop. Above all, it is c...

A large rat, wearing a coat made of smaller rats, looks over his shoulder as he scurries toward his subway lair.

UPRIGHT: Manifesting into reality, asserting one’s truth
REVERSED: Literally nobody believes in you.

Willamette

Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel Swiss cheese materials called metal-organic frameworks can separate and store gases

Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025's Nobel Prize in physics Quantum mechanics was first discovered on small, microscopic scales. 2025's Nobel Prize brings the quantum and large-scale worlds together.

Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics

This year's Nobel Prize in physics was all about building the first sustainable macroscopic system to exhibit quantum behavior.

Here's the science behind the prize, and why it matters.
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#physics #quantum

Gremlins II is highly underrated.

On the Red Carpet of the Nobel Prizes INTERVIEWER: Chemical engineer Dr. Chesel Amniotiv is looking resplendent in orange gabardine, with cobalt accents of actual cobalt. Let’s see if w...

INTERVIEWER: Dr. Amniotiv, who are you wearing this evening?

DR. AMNIOTIV: This is a Bob Mackie lab coat whose hem-to-seam ratio is equal to that of Rackam’s Theory of Saltine Dynamics. Plus big shoulder pads.

Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

“There is going to be infants skipping feeds. There is going to be pregnant women skipping meals so that they can feed their toddlers."
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