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Can too much exercise harm the brain?
This study suggests that excessive vigorous exercise triggers muscle-derived mitochondrial vesicles that travel to the hippocampus, disrupt synaptic energy supply, and impair cognition.
The findings reveal a surprising muscle-to-brain pathway linking overtraining to memory and cognitive decline—and suggest that more exercise isn't always better. #Overtraining #Mitochondria #Cognition @WuTsaiAlliance
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Mid journey unveils the future of medical scanning:
"Less than a dozen of these machines operating together at full speed can do more full body scans than every MRI machine together on Earth. Our goal is to build a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners, capable together of doing a billion scans a month—enough to bring full body imaging to everyone on Earth."
Using thousands of specialized transducers, this prototype system shoots ultra-precise sound waves through the body at over 1,400 meters per second. As these sonic vibrations echo back, they are captured in data streams of 17 gigabytes per second, measuring changes finer than the width of an atom. A massive 2-petaflop compute ring then merges these thousands of sub-images to map out a highly detailed, 3D internal anatomy of organs and tissues in just 60 seconds.
"This is a new kind of infrastructure. It’s Full Body Ultrasonic Computational Tomography. No such device has ever been built until now, and yeah, we’re calling it the Midjourney Scanner."
My favorite quote from David, was that they want this to be a feel like a genuinely “nice” experience, not a “going to the doctor experience” they’re going to put these inside mid journey spas!
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Birds only sing when they feel safe, thus signaling on a deep, cellular level that you are safe too. Their frequencies calm the nervous system, lowering cortisol and anxiety. Birdsong is nature’s medicine.
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Las personas con baja autoestima tienden a tener estándares más bajos sobre las personas que les rodean, eso les lleva a tener amigos de peor calidad, parejas de peor calidad y relaciones de peor calidad. Y el cómo te trata la gente que te rodea es uno de los factores más importantes para la construcción de la autoestima. Es un círculo cerrado: como no me quiero soporto a gente que me destruye, y como soporto a gente me destruye, no me quiero.
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It is absurd that Europe still finances its own trade in dollars.
The euro is just used in around 60% of euro area exports outside the eurozone. The US dollar is used in around 97% of US exports and 93% of US imports.
This means that even trade involving European countries outside the euro area is too often financed through the US currency and financial system.
That has to change.
Europe must expand euro-denominated trade finance inside its borders and use enlargement and new trade agreements to increase its influence through the euro system.
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If this was Real ,We would be Losing all our Jobs to Tech in the Near Future😭😭💔isn’t this Concerning???
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The First, Second, and Third most spoken languages in New York City by neighborhood
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Mutlu insanlar, mutsuzlara kıyasla 3 kat daha az boş sohbet ve 2 kat daha fazla anlamlı/derin sohbet yapıyor.
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when you understand that under capitalism a forest has no value until it's cut down, you begin to understand the root of our ecological crises.
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She vanished once and for all
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Partners of narcissistic women rate them as significantly more intelligent than their actual Raven’s-tested IQ warrants, while these same narcissistic women, in turn, inflate their partners’ intelligence ratings.
A study on narcissism & IQ…
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Two essential studies have now shown that men under 5’7” (170 cm) exhibit a measurably higher frequency of psychopathic and narcissistic traits as a direct evolutionary strategy to command authority. They utilize psychological manipulation to compensate for a lack of physical stature.
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If you slept badly but still need to perform, listen to your favourite music.
In this study, motivational music during warm-up partially blunted sleep-loss hits to power, mood, attention, and reaction time.
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Yaşam koşulları iyileştikçe cinsiyetler arasındaki biyolojik ve bilişsel farklar azalmak yerine daha da belirginleşiyor; çünkü çevresel yükler kalktığında insanların genetik potansiyelleri daha iyi gelişme imkanı buluyor.
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Jun 16
Some regions are innovation engines.
Others had a good idea once, opened the patent application, saw page 1 of 87, and decided humanity could survive without it.
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And yet...
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In 2007, the standards of living in the United States and Western Europe were similar, and most people don’t realize how much things have diverged since the US boomed after the global financial crisis and Europe didn’t.
They don’t fully understand how we’re living and we don’t fully understand how they’re living; even when we visit Europe as tourists, we don’t see their tiny, sad flats and their depressing grocery stores.
That is why Europeans visiting for the World Cup are going to, like, a Waffle House or a Taco Bell and losing their minds. Stuff we don’t even like or care about is wildly superior to everything everywhere else. We have no idea how rich we are.
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Scientists stunned by massive brown ribbon stretching across Atlantic from Africa
A 37.5 million tons of pelagic sargassum, a species of brown seaweed, forming an unbroken band from the coast of West Africa to Gulf of Mexico. This Atlantic Great Sargassum Belt simply did not exist 15 years ago.
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Bronze Age village in Germany🇩🇪
The Pfahlbauten (pile dwellings in English) are a style of houses built on stilts in lakes. This village dates to 1000 - 800BC.
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I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.
University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.
Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.
There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.
If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.
Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:
Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.
Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.
Jun 14
Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book.
Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts.
This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one.
To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization — if the schools and universities won't teach the great books, we must form reading groups to study them ourselves.
Every month, we read a new great work. We've covered texts like Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote.
We're now reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
We must study the ideas upon which the West was built if we are to preserve it. It takes effort to read these texts, and even more to read them well. Thats what we're doing, slowly, in dialogue with each other.
If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group and consider a paid subscription. It makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. We are entirely funded by our members.
You'll get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next
athenaeumbooks.com/welcome
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