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Extrovert Win: The Happiest People Spend Time With Others
Stop trying to create true believers and ostracizing anyone different. It takes a left wing and a right wing for an airplane to fly while having only one makes you Los Angeles or Portland.
Hank Campbell Mon, 10/26/2026 - 14:27 Categories PsychologyBiohybrid Computing: Mini Brain Organoids Read Braille
In a recent study, researchers sent signals from a sensor detecting tactile patterns associated with different Braille letters that were received by brain organoids. Individual organoids were able to correctly decode them 61 percent of the time but three organoids boosted accuracy to 83 percent.
News Sun, 10/25/2026 - 23:03 Categories TechnologyKids Get Into Halloween With These Scary But Suitable Books
Halloween is one of the few holidays centered around children. When else can students come to school dressed like astronauts, monsters and witches, or ring strangers’ doorbells to ask for candy? But of course there’s a darker side to the holiday.
The Conversation Sun, 10/25/2026 - 22:34 Categories PsychologyBreaking The Shower Containment Taboo For Hadron Calorimeters
Hadron calorimeters are particle detectors meant to measure the total energy possessed by high-energy subatomic particles that hit their front face and develop a shower of secondary particles inside their volume.
Tommaso Dorigo Wed, 10/21/2026 - 12:37 Categories PhysicsEpidemiology Call To Action: German Cats Have Two Fewer Lives Than French
Among some people, a faith vacuum and distrust of AI has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like ghosts and astrology, while in others, a science vacuum has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like epidemiology and correlation.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/20/2026 - 15:39 Categories MathematicsFaith Vacuums And AI Have Led To A Paranormal Resurgence
“There's a God-shaped vacuum in every heart,” wrote Pascal, but that vacuum is now again being filled by the paranormal. And AI is the cause.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/20/2026 - 11:46 Categories PsychologyUnderstanding Intelligence Across Artificial and Biological Systems
Recently I started a new peer-reviewed journal at the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition research. The journal, titled "AI and Brain", is published by Scilight Press, a young publishing firm that contrarily to my initial impressions is very serious and competent.
Tommaso Dorigo Tue, 10/20/2026 - 10:15 Categories Science HistoryIf You Like Rabbit, Thank The Plague
The Plague Killed killed off a giant swath of the population but those who survived saw better lives across the board, because there were so few left to work. And rabbits, once the gifts of kings, were suddenly everywhere.
The Conversation Fri, 10/16/2026 - 11:23 Categories AnthropologyMore on Radiacode 110
This is the second post reporting a few tests of the Radiacode 110 spectrometer, an extra-cool pocket dosimeter/radiation counter/spectrograph sold by RadiaCode.
Tommaso Dorigo Fri, 10/16/2026 - 07:17 Categories PhysicsWhen Natives Are Smarter Than Ecologists About Energy
If you knew that oil extraction would lower your cost of living while having environmental protection, would you object? Natives don't, but ecologists from rich countries do.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/13/2026 - 20:44 Categories AnthropologyWhat AI Gets Right In Medicine Is Giving Patients Time To Talk
A conversation that doesn't get interrupted by a doctor because government bureaucracy gives them 18 minutes to solve every problem was the medicine of the past. And it may be the medicine of the future.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/13/2026 - 19:08 Categories TechnologyIs Simulation-Based Inference A New Technique In HEP?
No, it is not. Please note! It goes back to Stan Ulam in the 1940s!
Tommaso Dorigo Tue, 10/13/2026 - 05:13 Categories PhysicsBearing Witness: Why It Might Be Ethical To Watch A Mass Murderer's Execution
Near the end of World War II, General George Patton forced German citizens to visit the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp to bear witness to what they had enabled. An ethicist debates that and two other reasons it might be right to watch Nidal Hassan die.
The Conversation Mon, 10/12/2026 - 21:19 Categories Philosophy & EthicsAI Is Making MRI Smarter: But It May Also Be Changing What We See
Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.
Mark Pierce Sun, 10/11/2026 - 22:50 Categories Clinical ResearchAI Is Making MRI Smarter: But It May Also Be Changing What We See
Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.
Mark Pierce Sun, 10/11/2026 - 22:48 Categories Clinical ResearchLeaf Them On The Ground: Benefit More By Doing Less Yardwork
Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrives.
The Conversation Sun, 10/11/2026 - 10:28 Categories EnvironmentHolidate Science: Relationship Differences Between Gay and Heterosexual Men
Men may be men but gay and heterosexual men express differences about relationships when it comes to perceived stability, attachment anxiety, and avoidance.
News Fri, 10/09/2026 - 12:40 Categories PsychologyThe Wondrous Radiacode 110
Yesterday I was delighted to receive in my mailbox another radiation spectrometer for testing, the Radiacode 110.
Tommaso Dorigo Fri, 10/09/2026 - 08:01 Categories Physics194 Year Old Tortoise DNA Shows Lifestyle Diseases Accelerate Aging
A new analysis of Aldabra tortoise DNA shows what scientists have long argued; if humans don't smoke, drink alcohol, or get obese we age better.
News Wed, 10/07/2026 - 14:11 Categories Genetics & Molecular BiologySoviet Well To Hell - How A Teacher Punked A Whole TV Network
In 1989, the communist dictatorship oddly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached the extent of a third giant hole in the Arctic Circle, Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3, where they'd been drilling for 19 years. It clocked in at nearly 8 miles deep.
Hank Campbell Tue, 10/06/2026 - 18:03 Categories Random Thoughts