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For nearly two years, the world’s biggest tech companies have said that AI will transform the web, your life, and the world. But first, they are remaking the humble search engine. Chatbots and search, in theory, are a perfect match. A standard Google search interprets a query and pulls up relevant results; tech companies have […]
It’s Official: AI Has Broken The Way We Will Find Things Online Read More »
Summary: A recent study explored whether additional years of education lead to long-term changes in brain structure, especially in protecting against brain aging. Analyzing data from a unique natural experiment involving nearly 30,000 individuals, researchers found no detectable impact on brain structure from an additional year of education. Although education is linked to better cognitive
Does More Education Fend Off Cognitive Decline? Study Says No Read More »
A few weeks ago, dozens of photographs of the “We Are Our Mountains” (“Tatik-Papik”) monument in occupied Artsakh disappeared from Wikimedia Commons. A red text box emerged, warning against uploading new images in which the monument features prominently, as it is located in “a country that does not provide Wikimedia Commons-acceptable freedom of panorama.” The
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During his tenure, the chamber orchestra launched a free online concert library, offering children and students free tickets and creating a rainy day fund. That fund, along with private donations and federal support, helped the SPCO continue to pay its staff and musicians even after COVID-19 shuttered stages. “It was really becoming clear in the
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Most of us have experienced a catchy tune looping in our minds, but how accurately do we recall the music? A new study published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics reveals that these “earworms” may be stored more precisely in our brains than we think. Researchers found that nearly half of the sung renditions matched the
Summary: By analyzing fMRI scans of people watching films, neuroscientists have created a comprehensive functional map of the brain, showing how it activates in response to complex scenes. This study identified 24 distinct networks that process aspects like faces, speech, or movement, and revealed how executive functions shift between easy and challenging scenes. Using machine
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For a long time, my career got in the way of my life. I was worrying about the next album, the next tour, my own selfish needs. All of a sudden, I was in my late forties and I had lost sight of what really mattered. I had always imagined myself as a father. I
When Garfunkel And Simon Met Up A Few Weeks Ago, For Lunch Read More »
If you’ve never read Bel Canto, this is not the place to start. Unmarked copies of this novel abound, and I suggest you get one of those if you want to come to the story without constant interruptions and an introduction that gives the plot away. If, after reading, you’re still interested, please come back.
Ann Patchett On Revisiting Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto, Twenty Years On Read More »
A Biden-appointed archivist overseeing the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, reportedly cut mentions of negative events in United States history from planned displays over the past year, including references to the government’s mass displacement of Native American communities and the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. According to an October 29 report by
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Getty Images Social media moderators check for distressing or illegal photos and videos which they then remove Over the past few months the BBC has been exploring a dark, hidden world – a world where the very worst, most horrifying, distressing, and in many cases, illegal online content ends up. Beheadings, mass killings, child abuse,
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