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by thedailymail 3y ago
Any neuroscientists out there willing to ELI5 the difference between how episodic and procedural memories are stored in the brain? Could this same o-togenetics approach be used to erase the memory of how to ride a bike?
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It means a line of vehicles behind you; a traffic jam. https://www.wordnik.com/words/tailback
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This recent article from 404 Media details how a few companies are already making it possible to doxx individuals based on single images posted on social media using facial recognition AI. I experimented with two of the free sites alluded t
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by thedailymail 3y ago
I've been in Japan for 29 years and, while I can't say I've never been bored, I do find new (or very old) things all the time that keep life interesting.
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Why some drugs are linked with increased suicidal ideation remains a major unsolved mystery. One 2009 study identified 800+ drugs spanning categories from analgesics to flu treatments to anti-cancer meds that were linked to more suicidal th
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Fritz Lieber, and many others were publishing classic swords-and-sorcery tales well before the post-Tolkien fantasy boom described in this article.
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by thedailymail 3y ago
You're both right - I did make quite a bit copy-editing for some minor journals published by Japanese scientific societies. But I also experimented a bit last year with using ChatGPT to correct minor spelling and grammatical errors, an
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by thedailymail 3y ago
This really resonated for me. I work in academia in a STEM field in Japan. For the first decade or so, I was always happy to help people who were struggling with writing a paper in English, and gradually developed a reputation for being the
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Reminds me of the great Talking Heads song, "Nothing but flowers". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE
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by thedailymail 3y ago
One of my favorite things about earlier ages of English is the degree of linguistic specificity they developed for distinctions that we would now find meaningless or unnecessary. For example, red deer of different ages and sexes might be ca
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by thedailymail 3y ago
This has already happened with Down syndrome in Denmark. https://cphpost.dk/2020-08-21/news/record-low-numbers-of-chi...
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by thedailymail 3y ago
If you are using Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, try switching it off or using another DNS resolver. There are reported issues with archive.md blocking access from 1.1.1.1
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Relevant wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Granting_work_into_t...
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This will end well.
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Another fascinating thing about the Newton story is its parallels to Archimedes and the "eureka" moment. Both stories involve the most famous physicist of the day being asked to protect the integrity of royal gold. (Archimedes was
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by thedailymail 3y ago
The lab that published this paper has also been developing an ex vivo environment for growing these kinds of human embryoids by what's called rolling culture. Other groups specializing in extremely premature neonatal care have been pus
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by thedailymail 3y ago
As I understood it, the Unification Church has historical ties with the Korean CIA. But I haven't heard about US CIA support for them, Falun Going, or Aum. Would love to learn more about it if you could point me to sources!
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by thedailymail 3y ago
This site provides a concise description of many review types: https://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/sysreview/types
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"For all that he has inspired many a mediocre imitator, the power and legacy of Tolkien, and the high fantasy he invented, cannot be understated." The correct phrase is "cannot be overstated." I cannot overstate how comm
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Just a few days ago I was reading "Thinking with demons," an excellent history of ideas about witchcraft in Europe, and was struck by the following passage about a 16th century drawing of three witches by Hans Baldung Grien: Info
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In the Intro he cites a paper by Frankel, "Is there trade with other planets?" https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/...
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It's not even dogshit in some parts. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/green-bank-west-virgin...
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Thank you! I thought it must be an OCR goof, but couldn't figure out what the actual words should be.
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I think there was an article recently about the Archive site refusing connections that go through the cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS.
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by thedailymail 3y ago
The breakdown in semantics reminds me of the Broca-area zombification process in the Hour by Hour novel Pontypool.
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Mentioned in the article, but forced rhubarb grows so fast you can hear it. This soundcloud file suggests hearing it in a darkened vault by candlelight would be extraordinary experience! https://soundcloud.com/rhubarb-rhubar
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https://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/
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Links for OpenType and TrueType downloads at the bottom of this page: https://iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fonts/
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You might enjoy The Passions and the Interests by Irving Hirschman, which gives a history of how the concept of "material interest" was introduced as a kind of intermediary state between reason and passion, partly to justify an em
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Is there a sex-specific difference in gut immunity that would account for the much higher prevalence of CFS in women?

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