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A very detailed breakdown on how long covid messes with the brain

Bye Vercel. Hello AWS!

Consciousness is deeply rooted in our nature as living things. Consciousness is not something that can be run on a computer | Anil Seth (UoS)

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Grandfather explains how to put a cranky baby to sleep.

Thread: A hundred things I learned working on the React team

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Caffeinated post: Documentation, how to do it

Gafflwn Dihenydd, o'r fuddugol yn wiriol sydd. Ni fydd neb yn ein Drechu, Falch ydy ni i drochu, Traed o flaen i'r Annwn, mewn y gwybodaeth fe godwn ni. (Art by: Anonamos)

A new study on the “gut-brain axis” found that lower levels of loneliness and higher levels of wisdom and compassion were associated with greater diversity of the gut microbiome. The relationship between loneliness and microbial diversity was particularly strong in older adults.

The Exopulse Mollii Suit can improve mobility for people affected by a stroke or Parkinson's disease. The low-frequency electrostimulation improves blood circulation and restores the previously inhibited balance between muscles pairs.

Don't you love it when that happens!?

🔥 Octopus playing with diver

'Spirituality' is a brain state we can all reach irrespective of our religious status and identity! Spiritual practices have been shown to be closely linked to 'self-awareness', 'empathy' and 'a sense of connectedness', all of which can be correlated with the frequency of brainwaves.

REACH 0.46. I was playing around with a stippling algorithm I had created, and I wanted to experiment with different ways of adjusting the margins.

We dont usually see it from this perspective (south pole)

YSK that if you sleep five hours or less a day, you will probably have false memories and your memory will suffer

What philosopher Peter Singer has learned in 45 years of advocating for animals

On the problems of immortality and the value of aging. | Philosophers from Plato to Kant and Beauvoir understood old age is a radically transformed existential state we must appreciate, not resist.

Ginger 3 Ways

YSK When you have self-defeating thoughts, feelings or habits, it helps to ask what’s the story behind them - and revise it. Psychologists call this story editing and it’s an actually engaging, evidence-based way to improve mental health.

New research based on four decades of longitudinal data indicates that it is rare for a person to receive and keep a single mental disorder diagnosis. Rather, experiencing different successive mental disorders appears to be the norm.

VIDEO: Making of Titanfall 2’s Time Travel Level ‘Effect and Cause’, Revealed by Respawn Entertainment Senior Designer

Guy makes Pinkest Pink in response to Amish Kapoor's Blackest Black and then makes a blacker black and makes them both free reign. Originally posted on r/damnthatsinteresting

YSK if your upper back and shoulders are constantly sore, you may need to stretch your chest muscles

Revolutionary thinking occurs when an existing paradigm, in a state of crisis, must be reinterpreted. Thinking cannot be deliberately revolutionised, progress must emerge from stability.

Finished the wood wall for my wife's cast iron (now just gotta remove those damn stickers)

Trying to be happy could make you miserable, study finds. The study, carried out among students living in the UK, found those who said they valued happiness extremely highly tended to show greater signs of depression.

Baby and adult brains ‘sync up’ during play. Researchers found that during the face-to-face sessions, the babies’ brains were synchronized with the adult’s brain in several areas known to be involved in high-level understanding of the world