SONG: Hyperfocus
SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert, […]
neurology
ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.
Science Alert carries news of a Korean research project that used AI to study images of the fundus, an area of the back of the […]
A new color, named “olo.”
BBC reports on an odd optical experiment that resulted in human eyes seeing an entirely new color, a kind of super-saturated aqua they’ve dubbed “olo”: […]
Intelligence evolved at least twice on Earth.
In science-nerd circles, people lately have been really into talking about how many times crabs evolve — that is, how many unrelated invertebrate families wind […]
Sparse but robust: Brains are wired to maximize memory.
Science News shares an analysis of the human hippocampus from a computer-designer’s standpoint, finding that though the network of brain-cell connections are relatively sparse, those […]
Lucid dreaming by phone
Science News shares an app created by Northwestern University neuroscientists that’s designed to cue your almost-sleeping brain to launch you into a lucid dream: Before […]
Memories can form outside the brain.
Kidney memory? Science Daily reports on how we sometimes expand our ability to remember – by using cells other than brain cells to store the […]
People who can’t smell breathe differently.
Popular Science shares a finding that people born without the ability to smell actually inhale and exhale differently than people who can tell what it […]
Meditate for marathons.
Outside reports on a study that finds meditation can have a profound effect not only on your mental wellbeing, but also on your physical endurance […]
Music can be medicine – especially for dementia.
Science Alert looks at some pretty interesting findings from Anglia Ruskin University researchers on the effects music can have on human physiology… especially in the […]
Look into a dog’s eyes and your brains can synchronize.
Science Alert explains the allure of the puppy-dog eyes with Chinese research demonstrating brainwaves suddenly syncing up between humans and dogs when they look into […]
Neuralink “sight-restoring” implant has a problem: brains don’t have pixels.
The Conversation discusses an engineering problem with electronic brain implants intended to restore vision, like Neuralink’s hyped Blindsight. They can add more pixels to the […]
Shingles vaccine fights dementia.
Forbes has a strange but true example of unintended (but welcome) consequences. It seems like Shingrix, the new shingles vaccine, also offers protection against developing […]
SONG: I Am Your Library
SONG: “I Am Your Library”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 25 Mar 2024, “New archive of ancient human brains […]
Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.
I think this is a brain, but it might just be a maze. This is a small icon that appears on the lower left corner […]