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  • New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care

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  • Consistent evidence links ultra-processed food to over 30 damaging health outcomes

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  • Significant proportion of cancer drugs lack proof of added benefit

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Significant proportion of cancer drugs lack proof of added benefit February 29, 2024 British Medical Journal BMJ Many cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency EMA between 1995 and 2020 lack proof of added benefit , particularly those approved through expedited “fast track” pathways , finds a study published by  The BMJ .  today And despite pharmaceutical industry claims that high drug prices are needed to offset research and development R D costs , the results show that more than half of these drugs , including those with minimal or no added benefit , recover R D expenses within three . years As such , the researchers call for better alignment between regulatory and

  • Walking, reminiscing benefit brain health in older Black adults

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  • Gel-tastic Study Shows Microspheres Spark Hair Growth

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Gel-tastic Study Shows Microspheres Spark Hair Growth February 29, 2024 University of Tsukuba The skin serves as a barrier that restricts the penetration of particles and protects against exogenous threats . Recent research indicates that small particles containing hair growth-promoting substances can traverse this barrier to reach the hair . follicles A study conducted by the University of Tsukuba demonstrated that topical application of a gel composed of water-soluble oxidized keratin keratin microsphere gel on mice significantly enhanced cell proliferation and the expression of genes associated with hair growth in the papilla cells of hair follicles , thereby stimulating hair .

  • What Is a Society?: The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective

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  • Female psychopaths ‘more common than we think’

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  • Customizable carbon and its potential impact on green energy

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  • Reproducing the Moon’s surface environment on Earth

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Reproducing the Moon’s surface environment on Earth February 27, 2024 Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology KICT Photograph of photoelectric current measurement unit Continuous research is being conducted globally on using the Moon as an advanced base for deep space exploration , and Korea is no exception in these . efforts The  Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology  (KICT , President Kim , Byung-suk successfully implemented an electrostatic environment that simulates the Moon’s surface conditions , not in space but on Earth . The researchers also assessed its performance and . effectiveness Among the most serious threats in executing lunar

  • Many reported gender differences may actually be power differences

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  • Scientists use blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for “meat-like” proteins

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Scientists use blue-green algae as a surrogate mother for meat-like” proteins February 27, 2024 University of Copenhagen Cyanobacteria with protein fibres seen through a microscope . The protein fibres are marked F' . We all know that we ought to eat less meat and cheese and dig into more plant-based foods . But whilst perusing the supermarket cold display and having to choose between animal-based foods and more climate-friendly alternative proteins , our voices of reason don†t always win . And even though flavour has been mastered in many plant-based products , textures with the right’ mouthfeel have often been . lacking Furthermore , some plant-based protein alternatives are not as

  • Study confirms benefits of auricular acupuncture to treat depression

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  • Sponge-on-a-string test replaces need for endoscopy for thousands of patients

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Sponge-on-a-string test replaces need for endoscopy for thousands of patients February 26, 2024 University of Cambridge Capsule and sponge Credit : Cyted A new test to help diagnose a condition that can lead to oesophageal cancer – developed by Cambridge researchers and trialled by the NHS – has reduced the need for invasive endoscopy in thousands of low-risk . patients The NHS pilot , which has tested over 8,500 patients with the ‘capsule sponge test†showed almost eight out of 10 patients who completed a test were discharged without the need for further testing , freeing up endoscopy capacity for higher risk patients and those referred for urgent tests for oesophageal . cancer The

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Steering and accelerating electrons at the microchip scale February 26, 2024 Stanford University Illustration of a shoebox-sized accelerator . An electron source and buncher injector feeds into a sub-relativistic DLA the device described in this article which accelerates electrons up to 1MeV in energy . These electrons are further accelerated by SiO2 waveguide-driven relativistic DLA , and finally pass through an undulator to produce coherent free-electron radiation . Image credit : Moore Foundation Payton Broaddus Stanford researchers are getting closer to building a tiny electron accelerator based on “accelerator-on-a-chip” technology with broad potential applications in studying

  • Antibody reduces allergic reactions to multiple foods in NIH clinical trial

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Antibody reduces allergic reactions to multiple foods in NIH clinical trial February 26, 2024 U.S . National Institutes of Health A 16-week course of a monoclonal antibody , omalizumab , increased the amount of peanut , tree nuts , egg , milk and wheat that multi-food allergic children as young as 1 year could consume without an allergic reaction in a late-stage clinical . trial Nearly 67 of participants who completed the antibody treatment could consume a single dose of 600 milligrams mg or more of peanut protein , equivalent to 2.5 peanuts , without a moderate or severe allergic reaction , in contrast with less than 7 of participants who received placebo . The treatment yielded similar

  • Animated maps reveal true level of devastation in Ukraine

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Animated maps reveal true level of devastation in Ukraine February 26, 2024 USC Time lapse shows average night light for Europe during 2022. Note how nighttime illumination within Ukraine diminishes as time lapse image progresses from January to December 2022. image Hang Xu Two years of war in Ukraine have caused widespread devastation to the country†s citizenry , infrastructure and environment , and new research utilizing publicly accessible satellite imagery lays bare the scope of . destruction Utilizing open-source military intelligence data and satellite imagery , a research team including USC earth scientist Sylvain Barbot has visualized the effects to Ukraine since the beginning of

  • Yoga gives cognitive benefits to older women at risk of Alzheimer’s

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Yoga gives cognitive benefits to older women at risk of Alzheimer†s February 26, 2024 UCLA A new UCLA Health study found Kundalini yoga provided several benefits to cognition and memory for older women at risk of developing Alzheimer†s disease including restoring neural pathways , preventing brain matter decline and reversing aging and inflammation-associated biomarkers – improvements not seen in a group who received standard memory training . exercises The  findings published in the journal  Translational Psychiatry are the latest in a series of studies led by UCLA Health researchers over the past 15 years into the comparative effects of yoga and traditional memory enhancement

  • Dance between dopamine and serotonin influences social behavior

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    Skip to content Menu Follow Us On Substack Google News Twitter X FaceBook Bluesky Our Bloggers Search Dance between dopamine and serotonin influences social behavior February 26, 2024 Virginia Tech Scientists discuss their work to discover insights into the complexities of the brain and mind . Recently , the researchers , including from left Dan Bang of Aarhus University in Denmark , Ken Kishida of Wake Forest University School of Medicine , Michael Friedlander , executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Peter Dayan , managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen , Germany , and Read Montague , director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Human Neuroscience Research , reflected on achievements that have spanned

  • Vanishing forests and suffering children: The hidden toll of deforestation in Cambodia

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  • Using caffeine to induce flow states

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    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 23, 2024 Using caffeine to induce flow states I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews open access and show the Highlights and Abstract of the article below . nbsp One of the coauthors , Steven Kotler , who is executive director at the Flow Research Collective was mentioned in my previous 2019 Mind Blog post A Schism in Flow-land Flow Genome Project vs . Flow Research Collective . It was the last in a series of critical posts that started in 2017. While I agree from my personal experience that caffeine as well other common stimulants can induce more

  • AI makes our humanity matter more than ever.

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    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 21, 2024 AI makes our humanity matter more than ever . I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by Aneesh Raman a work force expert at LinkedIn , nbsp and Maria Flynn , president of Jobs for the Future For readers blocked by the NYTimes paywall , I paste in the conclusion of the : article Minouche Shafik , who is now the president of Columbia University , said : In the past , jobs were about muscles . Now they’re about brains , but in the future , they’ll be about the heart . 8221 The knowledge economy that we have lived in for decades emerged out of a goods

  • Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

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    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 19, 2024 Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston , Andy Clark , and other prominent figures who study generative models of sentient behavior in living organisms . nbsp They suggest a future direction for AI development that is very similar to the vision described in the previous MindBlog post which described a recent article by Venkatesh Rao . Here are the highlights and abstract of the article . Highlights

  • Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

    Updated: 2024-02-17 21:49:00
    : : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Saturday , February 17, 2024 Gemini 1.5 : Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google . Here's the abstract describing a working memory system vastly greater than our own , that can hold 10 million tokens a token' is roughly 0.75 words In this report , we present the latest model of the Gemini family , Gemini 1.5 Pro , a highly compute-efficient multimodal mixture-of-experts model capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information from millions of tokens of context , including multiple long

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  • How long has humanity been at war with itself?

    Updated: 2024-02-14 15:09:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 14, 2024 How long has humanity been at war with itself I would like to point MindBlog readers to an article by Deborah Barsky with the title of this post . The following clip provides relevant links to the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute . nbsp Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute , a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona , Spain , with the Open University of Catalonia UOC She is

  • The Art of Doing Nothing

    Updated: 2024-02-12 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 12, 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing Deep into the Juniper Cedar pollen allergy season in Austin TX , I'm being frustrated that I have so little energy to do things . It's as if my batteries can not muster more than a 10 charge . I try to tell myself that it's OK to just be to do nothing , and have not been very successful at this . nbsp So , I enjoyed stumbling upon a recent Guardian article , The art of doing nothing : have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture whose URL I pass on to MindBlog readers . nbsp It describes the concept of niken , or the Dutch art of doing nothing

  • Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

    Updated: 2024-02-09 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 09, 2024 Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures Interesting work from Putkinen et al . open source Significance Music is inherently linked with the body . Here , we investigated how music's emotional and structural aspects influence bodily sensations and whether these sensations are consistent across cultures . Bodily sensations evoked by music varied depending on its emotional qualities , and the music-induced bodily sensations and emotions were consistent across the tested cultures . Musical features also influenced the emotional experiences and bodily sensations

  • Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

    Updated: 2024-02-07 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 07, 2024 Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al . titled Our Roots Run Deep’ : Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . nbsp One of the most remarkable manifestations of social cohesion in large-scale entities is the belief in a shared , distinct and ancestral past . Human communities around the world take pride in their ancestral

  • Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting

    Updated: 2024-02-05 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 05, 2024 Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in nutrient dishes from two to three dimensions : nbsp Highlights Functional human neural tissues assembled by 3D bioprinting Neural circuits formed between defined neural subtypes Functional connections established between cortical-striatal tissues Printed tissues for modeling neural network impairment Summary Probing how human neural networks

  • Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds

    Updated: 2024-02-02 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 02, 2024 Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds I have a splitting headache from having just watched a 27 minute long YouTube rapid fire lecture by Venkatesh Rao given last November at the Autonomous Worlds Assembly in Istanbul part of DevConnect , a major Ethereum ecosystem event His latest newsletter Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds” gives adds some notes and context , and gives a link to its slides As Rao : notes This may seem like a glimpse into a very obscure and nerdy subculture for many most of you , but I think something very important and interesting is brewing in this scene and

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