Eduard Antoniu

How ‘skull drains’ keep the brain safe from damage and pathogens Veins in the skull can rearrange their borders to accommodate patrolling immune cells, a strange behaviour called ruffling.

How ‘skull drains’ keep the brain safe from damage and pathogens www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The science of consciousness needs an embodied and developmental turn 😎

February 18 is also the 165th anniversary of the assumption of the throne of Italy by Victor Emmanuel II - but you don’t see Sadiq Khan celebrating that, although the last I looked there were still some Piedmontese and Savoyards in London. Disgusting.

Preseason Thoughts: DC United vs. Minnesota United The Coachella Invitational impresses fans by streaming the game, but the actual teams...not so much

Munteanu also lacks character. Hope he's improving.

Preseason Thoughts: DC United vs. Minnesota United
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Decoding the Cerebellum’s Secret Role in Human Language - Neuroscience News Researchers identify a specialized "satellite" language network in the cerebellum, offering new insights into how the brain processes communication and potential treatments for aphasia.

Researchers believed the human language network was primarily located in the brain’s neocortex. However, neuroscientists have now identified a “satellite” component of this network hidden within the cerebellum—a region typically associated with motor coordination
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is medieval in several senses - brute acquisition of territory etc. But also because it goes on and on while the people of the aggressor state forget why they’re at war. If they ever knew.

Some of you have mentioned that they haven’t seen Droo the greyhound for a while! I can assure you he is safe and well, and hanging out mostly in my studio 😉🐾🎸🎶❤️ #loyalfriend

How Glasgow is making the world a better place Not the rougher, dirtier sibling of Edinburgh, but Glasgow is a city full of surprises that’s far warmer than the rain would let you think.

How Glasgow is making the world a better place: faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-glasgow-...

James Wolcott · What you can get away with: Updike Reconsidered Betwixt and between is a strange place for any major writer to be more than a decade and a half after their death, and...

James Wolcott at his best in this review of Updike’s letters— firmly agree that John Cheever’s corpus has withstood the test of time better than Updike’s.

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Fans appreciate the album, but MIKE RUTHERFORD pays little attention to it. On this day in 1980, "Smallcreep's Day" was released.
Our review: t.ly/2gP-_
#mikerutherford #genesis

Berlinale Immediately Gets Heated at Jury Presser as President Wim Wenders Asserts “We Have to Stay Out of Politics” "We are the counterweight of politics, the opposite of politics, we have to do the work of people — not the work of politicians," said the legendary filmmaker at the first Berlin Film Fest press confe...

As if issuing platitudes isn’t a form of politicking on this planet where “the judgement of history” underwrites our art and communities. . .

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Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.

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Scotland 'matches France for food and drink export value', figures show Scotland's food and drink export value per capita stands “shoulder-to-shoulder” with some of Europe’s biggest economies and outperforms…

In 2024, Scotland exported £7.14 billion worth of food & drink, equivalent to £1288 per person. By contrast, England exported £12.12bn, £207 per person. Scotland’s food and drink exports per head are more than six times England’s, and on a par with France.
www.thenational.scot/news/2585468...

Whistling at the Edge of Law The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment.

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Right. I believe the purpose of life is the minimization of pain, or avoidance thereof.

Peter Gabriel turns 76 - Happy Birthday

Happy 76th Birthday, Peter Gabriel!
📸 Will Ireland

So happy that my Cambridge Element with @yesolakweon.bsky.social has been published! Free access for the next two weeks!

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Happy 76 @stevehacketthq.bsky.social wishing you an amazing birthday and thank you you all the wonderful music 👌❤️

Alexander Edlich

This week's post is by Alexander Edlich (LMU Munich), and Alfred Archer (University of Tilburg) presenting their paper 'Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice' published in Social Epistemology.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....

In unprecedented move, giant monkey research center may become a primate sanctuary University votes to consider ending all studies at Oregon National Primate Research Center. But cost and feasibility are still in doubt

In unprecedented move, giant monkey research center may become a primate sanctuary

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Steve Hackett celebrates his 76th Birthday Today.

Happy 76th Birthday, Steve Hackett!
📸 Michaela Ix
@stevehacketthq.bsky.social #stevehackett

Why Tony Banks, the quiet genius behind Genesis, is hesitant to create new music at 75 At 75, Tony Banks, the creative backbone of Genesis, has little appetite for a comeback despite urging from fans and industry figures.

The Los Angeles Times has published this article about TONY BANKS yesterday: t.ly/v1g5k
#tonybanks

Yo, FB just discontinued the comment plugin for other web sites.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

These are the same parents who believe that kids can spend 90% of their free time on TikTok and not be "influenced" by what they see. We are very good at lying to ourselves about the cognitive impact of virtual realities. Or, we just swallow the lies we are fed b/c late capitalism drains us. 😔

Is that The New Republic or The New York Review of Books? I don't think you spend time on Times New Roman. Is that Virgil Thomson, B.H. Haggin, or maybe ... Theodore W. Adorno?

The fact that the crabs were live doubles her appeal.

YouTube video by Genesis - Official [Classic Era] Genesis - The Return Of The Giant Hogweed (Official Music Video)

So it's from Yiddish it acquired it's final "t". And, originally, it involved Heracleum sphondylium. Not mantegaziani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kl0...

YouTube video by KEXP Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Calling it rn - 2026 gonna be The Year of Angine de Poitrine. All of the cool kidz will be saying "Geese who?" by summer. Power Trio w/2 ppl that looks like The Residents if Simon Hanselmann designed em on DMT. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.