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5 days agoRadioactive rain and proving relativity: Books in brief
Many books describe how the first atomic bomb was built. But this history by Emily Seyl stands apart. It tells the story of the bomb's Trinity test in New Mexico in July 1945 through restored photographs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Research Center, where Seyl works. These include images of once-clandestine documents and experiments, as well as unfamiliar restored photographs of 'trinitite' - green glass found at the test crater - which fell from the bomb's fireball in molten drops.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week agoThe brain may still be able to hear speech under anesthesia
The hippocampus, a deep-brain structure that plays a role in memory and spatial navigation, continues to listen, learn and predict the meaning of words while a person is completely anesthetized.
Medicine
#ai
Tech industry
fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence
1 week agoInternet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon raises $500M for Flourish, a brain-inspired AI efficiency startup valued at $2.5B
Thomas Reardon is raising $500 million for Flourish, aiming to create energy-efficient AI architectures inspired by the human brain.
fromSnowBrains
1 week agoThe Brain Science Behind Flow States - SnowBrains
Mikaela Shiffrin described the flow state as a 'ball of energy that starts from the start [gate] and that each turn you're actually building this energy.' This encapsulates the essence of being fully engaged and focused during performance.
Snowboarding
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoThe definitive sign someone has done real inner work isn't how calm they seem in conflict, it's how quickly they can name what just happened to them without making it the other person's fault - Silicon Canals
Genuine emotional growth involves naming personal experiences rather than merely maintaining composure in conflict.
#introversion
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoPsychology says introverts are not missing social skills or confidence, they are often running a different system that values depth over noise, which is why they notice small shifts, think before speaking, and build fewer but more meaningful connections - Silicon Canals
Introverts are not broken; they prioritize depth, quality, and substance over superficial social interactions.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThere's a specific kind of introvert who is warm, funny, and genuinely interested in people, and who is also completely depleted by them, and who has spent decades trying to explain this distinction to extroverts who hear it as rejection - Silicon Canals
Introversion is not shyness; it reflects a unique relationship between stimulation and energy, not a dislike for social interaction.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks ago8 small habits of people who grew up with money worries and still flinch at the sound of a bill arriving even though they could pay it ten times over - Silicon Canals
Financial anxiety persists regardless of improved financial situations due to deep-rooted conditioning and fear responses in the brain.
#handwriting
Writing
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoPeople who keep a paper notepad with them aren't being old-fashioned - they've discovered that some thoughts only become real once your hand has moved across a page - Silicon Canals
Handwriting enhances memory retention and cognitive processing compared to typing, engaging more areas of the brain.
Writing
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoNobody talks about why people who grew up writing everything down by hand often struggle with processing their own feelings, and it's because writing things down by hand was how they metabolized emotion, and nobody told them that typing doesn't do the same thing - Silicon Canals
Handwriting engages the brain more deeply than typing, facilitating emotional processing and cognitive engagement.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks agoPsychology says people who grew up poor in the 1960s and 70s develop a specific relationship to waste - they can't throw away a half-used candle or a rubber band or a piece of foil, not from habit, but because their nervous system still treats abundance as temporar - Silicon Canals
Scarcity during childhood shapes the brain's stress-response architecture, leading to lasting changes in emotion regulation and threat detection.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks agoNeuroscience reveals that the calmest person in any crisis isn't naturally fearless - their brain learned to delay panic because their childhood required them to be functional before they were allowed to be afraid - Silicon Canals
Calmness under pressure is a learned response, not merely a personality trait or temperament.
Science
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month agoFrom Cajal to Dali and Lorca: The drawings that revealed the substance of the human mind and inspired Surrealism
Santiago Ramon y Cajal discovered the structure of the nervous system and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906, influencing both science and art.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoPsychology says people who want to change their lives but never start aren't lazy - they're waiting for a feeling of readiness that behavioral science confirms almost never arrives on its own - Silicon Canals
Feeling ready to act is often a byproduct of taking action, not a prerequisite.
fromNature
1 month agoDopaminergic mechanisms of dynamical social specialization - Nature
Social foraging strategies illustrate the balance between competition and cooperation, where individuals either produce resources or exploit the efforts of others, navigating ecological and social constraints.
Psychology
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoI'm 34 and I just realized I've been performing competence at work for seven years because somewhere along the way I confused being impressive with being safe, and the exhaustion I thought was burnout was actually the weight of never once letting anyone see me learn something for the first time. - Silicon Canals
Performing competence can lead to self-erasure and social rewards, masking genuine capability with a polished exterior.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoI'm 34 and I recently caught myself apologizing to a chair I bumped into, and my colleague laughed, but I didn't because I understood exactly where that reflex came from. When you grow up in a house where taking up space was a problem, you spend the rest of your life negotiating with furniture. - Silicon Canals
Emotional neglect in childhood leads to lifelong issues with self-worth, boundaries, and the need to apologize excessively.
fromWIRED
1 month agoMeet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old research psychologist and quadriplegic, participated in a brain implant study to contribute to science that aids those with paralysis. The six chips in his brain decode movement intention, allowing him to operate a computer and feel sensations in his fingers again.
Music production
#trauma
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago9 signs your brain is wired for pattern recognition in a way most people never develop, and it almost always traces back to how unpredictable your childhood environment was - Silicon Canals
Heightened pattern recognition often stems from childhood adversity, not genetic gifts, as the brain adapts to unstable environments for survival.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoI grew up lower middle class and the thing nobody understands is that we didn't budget because we were disciplined. We budgeted because we'd already done the math on what happens when the car breaks down in the same month the insurance is due, and that math never leaves your body even after the numbers change. - Silicon Canals
Financial scarcity rewires the body and mind, creating lasting effects on budgeting and spending behaviors rooted in stress and dread.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoBehavioral scientists say the reason people cry when they see someone else reunited with a loved one - at airports, in films, in real life - isn't sentimentality. The brain's mirror neuron system fires a complete emotional simulation of the experience, and the tears aren't about the strangers, they're about every reunion your own body has stored and every one it's still waiting for. - Silicon Canals
Observing emotional reunions activates mirror neurons, creating an embodied response that connects us to the feelings of others.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoBehavioral scientists found that the human brain doesn't actually crave constant novelty. It craves pattern recognition and mastery, which means the person who finds genuine pleasure in their morning walk along the same route is neurologically closer to fulfillment than the person who needs every weekend to feel like an event - Silicon Canals
The brain's reward circuits respond more strongly to mastery and pattern recognition within familiar structures than to constant novelty-seeking.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoI used to think I was bad at relaxing until I realized I was actually excellent at scanning for what might go wrong next, and those two things cannot occupy the same body at the same time. - Silicon Canals
Relaxation failure stems from continuous threat assessment in the nervous system, not lack of discipline; the body cannot simultaneously scan for danger and rest due to competing neurological states.
fromMail Online
2 months agoIncredible map reveals how the brain processes different emotions
They created an artificial 'mental map', with pleasantness along one axis and bodily reactions along the other, and charted how the brain responded while watching clips from films. The results revealed clear groupings in the way that our brains represent emotion - with guilt, anger and disgust in one corner and happiness, satisfaction and pride in the other.
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