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Jakob Owens / Unsplash We all trust our own memories, but we might not be remembering things exactly as they happened. Memories can be distorted, or even completely made up. False memories have been manipulated to make people confess to crimes they didn’t commit. ‘Fuzzy trace theory’ helps explain where false memories come from. In […]
POPULAR video games can slow down ageing and give a boost to the brains of older people, according to a new report. Daily Express :: Health Feed
The Mustang personifies the American muscle car. Folks who have zero interest in the Camaro and Charger are in awe of the design of the Ford that landed on roads in 1964. Besides a few design hiccups (ugh, the Mustang 2), it’s been coveted, sung about, restored — and as of 2016 — purchased more […]
Jemal Countess/Getty Images Sherry Turkle is an MIT psychologist who has been studying human relationships to technology for several decades. As smartphones and devices become harder to resist, Turkle said she’s made a conscious effort to use them only when necessary. She acknowledged not all tech is bad, and still loves using her computer to […]
Enlarge / Do not mess with Burnham, you Klingon supremacist scum. (credit: CBS) A white-knuckle cliffhanger ended the first half of Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season. Frenetic, fascinating, and sometimes shocking, “Into the Forest I Go” raised more questions than it answered. There are conspiracies wrapped in conspiracies, and we’ve got the entire mid-season break […]
Enlarge / A representation of how physically close feature recognition units are built hierarchically to create an object hypothesis. (credit: Vicarious AI) Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people’s faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large image collections. But we’ve come to rely on some things that computers […]
The way mothers in 11 different countries respond to their baby’s cries seems to be programmed into their brain circuits, new research has found. CBC | Health News
Enlarge (credit: International Fund for Animal Welfare) Why are humans so smart? We must have evolved in an environment that made more intelligent individuals likely to survive. But this just raises new questions: what factors in the environment could have created an evolutionary pressure for intelligence? And how have other species that faced similar pressures ended […]
A new study finds the legalization of cannabis in Colorado was associated with “a statistically significant reduction” in opioid-related deaths. Another study shows that long-term use of marijuana changes the brain at a cellular level. On Monday, researchers from Brigham Young University’s neuroscience department published a study in the journal JNeurosci that found long-term use […]
Enlarge (credit: Valentina Palladino) Technology is shrinking, but that doesn’t mean it’s getting more subtle. Smartwatches are gaining popularity in the wearable world, but most make themselves painfully known by looking like high-tech gadgets. Not all wearables are fashion crimes, though; there’s a sector of smart jewelry trying to thrive in this space by fighting […]
