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Doctors Acquitted in Newborn Homicide Case
Healthobservador23h ago

Doctors Acquitted in Newborn Homicide Case

Doctors accused of homicide in the death of a newborn have been acquitted, as a causal link between obstetric conduct and the baby's death from a brain injury could not be established.

Dangers of Alcohol Consumption in Adolescents
Cultureluxemburger-wort2d ago

Dangers of Alcohol Consumption in Adolescents

This article discusses the dangerous consequences of early alcohol consumption in adolescents, detailing how it affects the developing brain and offering advice for parents to protect their children.

Woman Uses 'Dirty Hands' as Digital Detox Method
Sciencenrk2d ago

Woman Uses 'Dirty Hands' as Digital Detox Method

Frida Catarina Rodrigues, 33, has found a unique way to disconnect from screens by engaging in activities that make her hands dirty, effectively preventing her from using her phone. A brain researcher supports her method, suggesting others could benefit from similar digital detox strategies.

Artist Guggi's Brain Surgery Ordeal
Healthirish-independent3d ago

Artist Guggi's Brain Surgery Ordeal

Artist Guggi recounts a terrifying night in 2021 when he was informed he needed immediate brain surgery, facing uncertain chances of survival.

Cold Storage review – mutant-mildew plague horror comedy stuffs fun into the fungi
CultureThe Guardian5d ago

Cold Storage review – mutant-mildew plague horror comedy stuffs fun into the fungi

Stranger Things’ Joe Keery is joined by a stellar cast battling an outbreak of virulent brain spores, but the film doesn’t offer much more than endless wisecracks and a splatterhouse grossfest ‘Pay attention! This shit is real!” screams an on-screen warning at the start of this overstuffed horror-comedy-action outing. As much as the deadly fungus it foists on Earth, an outbreak of sardonic attitude runs rampant here. It falls to two bantering storage facility workers, played by Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell, to contain a potential apocalypse event – with intermittent high-grade thespian help from Lesley Manville, Vanessa Redgrave and old faithful Liam Neeson. (Somebody clearly called in a few favours here.) Things kick off as the Skylab space station falls out of orbit in 1979 – one of its research containers winds up in the Australian outback. Fast-forward to the early 00s and a team of bioterror operatives, including Robert (Neeson) and Trini (Manville), wipe out the virulent fungus that escapes – though not before it turns one of them into a human smoothie. But the Kansas facility where they stow a sample is later decommissioned, and the ground floor converted into storage lockers. Before you can say “heinous government negligence”, night-shifters Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell) are itching to check out the random alarm sounding somewhere behind the walls. Continue reading...

Top neuroscientist Arthur Konnerth leaves Germany for full-time role in China
ScienceSCMP9d ago

Top neuroscientist Arthur Konnerth leaves Germany for full-time role in China

Arthur Konnerth, a recipient of the prestigious Brain Prize, has joined the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL) on a full-time basis, the institute announced on January 29. Konnerth is a leading figure in neuroscience whose work has helped transform the understanding of how the brain processes information. His research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of learning and memory, employing a combination of electrophysiological, imaging and cellular techniques. Konnerth pioneered the in vitro brain...

Toxic E-Waste Chemicals Found in Endangered Dolphins and Porpoises
EnvironmentThe Guardian5h ago

Toxic E-Waste Chemicals Found in Endangered Dolphins and Porpoises

A new study has revealed that gene-altering chemicals from e-waste, specifically from television, computer, and smartphone screens, have been detected in the brains and bodies of endangered humpback dolphins and finless porpoises, raising concerns about their potential entry into the human food chain.

Targeted Brain Treatment for Metastases
Healthdigi247h ago

Targeted Brain Treatment for Metastases

Targeted brain treatment with protection of healthy tissue is being discussed as a central component of therapeutic strategy for brain metastases. Precise and rapid local control is crucial due to the potential for quick influence on neurological functions.

Newcastle finish off Qarabag in rapid time to set up Chelsea or Barcelona tie
SportThe Guardian20h ago

Newcastle finish off Qarabag in rapid time to set up Chelsea or Barcelona tie

Eddie Howe adores motivational slogans and the Newcastle manager’s current favourite is: “One Brain.” The idea is to inspire his team to play with the sort of synchronicity that stems from a collective mindset and united purpose. For a while here it seemed to be working a treat with Newcastle’s intelligence – both joint and individual – threatening to further humiliate Qarabag. But then, with a last-16 tie against either Barcelona or Chelsea assured, home concentration began wandering a littl...

Understanding Muscle Tone in Babies
Healthn1-serbia1d ago

Understanding Muscle Tone in Babies

An article explains muscle tone in babies, describing it as the natural tension in muscles at rest, controlled by the brain, which is fundamental for posture, movement, and stability.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Weight Regulation
Healthklix-ba1d ago

Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Weight Regulation

An article explores the potential of omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish oil and other supplements, to aid in weight regulation, alongside their numerous other health benefits for the heart, brain, eyes, and skin.

Epstein Funded UCSD Study Of 'Telepathic Autistic Savant' Through Deepak Chopra Connection
Sciencezerohedge1d ago

Epstein Funded UCSD Study Of 'Telepathic Autistic Savant' Through Deepak Chopra Connection

Epstein Funded UCSD Study Of 'Telepathic Autistic Savant' Through Deepak Chopra Connection Jeffrey Epstein was connected with several notable scientists - funding leading research centers, including Harvard, where he donated $9 million, and MIT's Media Lab, which he gave at least $7.5 million (and funneled another $1.2 million to investments under the control of the lab's former director, Joi Ito). He was connected to Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky, Steven Pinker and a host of other names.  Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran and Jeffrey Epstein Now we learn that Epstein provided funding to a lab at UC San Diego after lifestyle guru Deepak Chopra introduced the financier to lab director Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran - a neuroscientist who was studying an "autistic savant who displays telepathy," according to the latest DOJ Epstein file dump.  Chopra, a former UCSD family medicine and public health clinical professor, said in late October that he was just helping Epstein with insomnia by teaching him to meditate. "At my suggestion, he also visited Dr. V.S. Ramachandran's lab at [the University of California San Diego] to learn about ongoing brain research," he told CBS News in December.  EFTA01013830.pdf Ramachandran was conducting a study on an "autistic savant who displays telepathy," according to UCSD's The Guardian, citing a Sept. 25, 2017 email with the subject "Cost to study the autistic savant who displays telepathy," in which he tells Chopra, "i don't have a problem with my lab being funded by epstein ... so long as theres no UC connection."  Ramanchandran further wrote that if Chopra’s “pal [Epstein] is serious about setting in motion a lab for the study of extraordinary brain potential … something like 500,000 to 3 million would get the administrators excited.” A subsequent email from Epstein to his accountant, Richard Kahn, instructed Kahn to send $25,000 from Epstein’s private foundation, Gratitude America Ltd., to the University of California Board of Regents to fund Ramachandran’s research on savant syndrome. He asked it to be mailed to former psychology department director and current chief administrative officer, Peter Hinkley.  Chopra later emailed Epstein on October 5, 2017 to provide an update on spending the day with Ramachandran to discuss the "pilot study of autistic savants." Ceepak Chopra The 2017 emails weren't the first Epstein-Ramachandran mention. On April 17, 2009, Epstein emailed someone whose name was redacted, replying to a list of "smart" and "out of the box" people to have over to his Florida home sometime in the future. Epstein included Ramachandran in this list, along with others who he described as "good friends of mine for years."  While there's nothing we could find on the telepathic kid (maybe they sensed danger), Ramachandran did write an article in December 2006 where he says telepathy is "legitimately ignored, except by crackpots" because it's difficult to replicate. He's also mentioned a few times in this piece on life after death, ESP, and other phenomenon. Tyler Durden Thu, 02/19/2026 - 11:05

Healthwapo3d ago

Why Our Brains Struggle with the Modern Economy

The complexities of the modern economy, including high insurance premiums and expensive goods, can overwhelm human brains, leading to a disconnect from the actual risks and benefits of various life events.

Cultureeconomist13d ago

Humorous Takes on Modern Workplace Culture

A collection of articles humorously dissects the quirks and challenges of contemporary office life, from the quest for meeting rooms and signing birthday cards to office snackers, feuds, and the decline of brainstorming.

Nazis on the brain: Korean politics takes Godwin's Law offline
PoliticsKorea Herald13h ago

Nazis on the brain: Korean politics takes Godwin's Law offline

In online forums, Godwin's Law holds that the longer a discussion continues, the more inevitable Nazi comparisons become. In Korean politics, it appears that neither an online forum or a long time is necessary. The National Assembly's most recent example was made over proposed revision to the Referendum Act. The revision, passed at the Legislation and Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, includes clauses strengthening the National Election Commission’s authority and penalties for interfering with its

Smaller, faster, smarter: Chinese transistor ready for future AI chips
TechnologySCMP20h ago

Smaller, faster, smarter: Chinese transistor ready for future AI chips

A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled the world’s smallest and most energy-efficient transistor in a breakthrough poised to anchor the next generation of high-performance AI hardware. The researchers achieved the feat in ferroelectric transistors (FeFETs), which function similarly to neurons in the human brain as they integrate memory and processing in a single unit, thereby reducing the time lost in data transfer. In conventional semiconductor chips, data storage and computation occur in...

Stock Market Investment Strategies and Top Picks
FinanceReutersFTmarketwatch+3YahooTimes of Indiaadvisor-perspectives9d ago6 sources

Stock Market Investment Strategies and Top Picks

Analysts and financial experts offer advice on navigating the stock market, including recommendations for dividend stocks, high-performing companies, and long-term investment opportunities.