Scientists found that bilingual individuals have more efficient communication between brain regions, notably between the cerebellum and left frontal cortex. - Neuroscience News
Yes, AI is a problem, and so are human-generated fakes. “People do a pretty poor job at discerning a fake review from a real one. It’s essentially a coin flip – studies have shown that shoppers can correctly identify a fake review only half of the time.” - The Conversation
And, perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, the housing designed by the people who live in the space may help solve some public health crises. - The Guardian (UK)
“Seven tumultuous years in the making, the nearly four-acre campus own and have developed now has 76 studio lofts, retains its graffiti-splashed interior walls and is crowned with a steel sculpture — the Freak Beacon — inspired by the TV Tower in Berlin.” - The New York Times
Perhaps the most important is “constitutive luck”, which covers all the fortunate or unfortunate circumstances of your very existence; the period of history in which you were born, your parents, background, genes and character traits. - The Guardian
When I think of sayings, I think first of the early Greek philosophers—the so-called pre-Socratics—whose ideas, if they wrote them down at all, survive as elusive fragments of text. - The Point
“Privacy is valuable not because it empowers us to exercise control over our information, but because it protects against the creation of such information in the first place.” - The New Yorker
Those stories that Americans tell about themselves in the name of the “imagined community,” manifest through public rituals like fireworks shows, public school curricula, the discourse of politicians, and the touchstones reinforced by constant references in the press and pop culture: the Alamo, Custer’s Last Stand, the showdown at the O.K. Corral. - LA Review of Books
Part of living well is thinking well. Our souls have an intellectual, as well as a practical, part; we cannot live fully flourishing lives unless we flourish intellectually. Are there, then, specifically intellectual virtues – excellences of intellectual character, whose exercise makes us good thinkers? - Aeon
Though Kahle’s ideals have never wavered, his creations were subsumed by a Silicon Valley behemoth feeding off all things antithetical to his vision of an open internet: advertising models, insane capital markets, and the ultimate “poison” (as he calls it), monopoly power. - Rolling Stone
Television shows that are 50 years old aren’t thick on the ground. But SNL strikes a thread of absurd comedy from time to time that goes viral. The latest is centered on … George Washington? - The Atlantic
Among others, “you can find the contemplative radicals of Hummingbirds trolling the streets of Laredo over on PBS; the determined detectives of The Chicano Squad solving crimes in Houston on A&E; and on Netflix, a dozen or so student musicians competing in Going Varsity in Mariachi.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
Just feed the raw material into a large language model and in an instant you’ll have a summary to scan. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude as our wingmen, summary reading is what now qualifies as preparedness. - Wired
Hundreds of scientists mapped out those connections in stunning detail in a series of papers published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. - The New York Times
Pre-internet, the lines were pretty clear about the binary relationship between artist and audience. Artists created and audience consumed. In today’s digital world, the landscape is fluid—we create and express our identities by what we choose to share online. - National Endowment for the Arts
